Chasing Tone - Guitar Podcast About Gear, Effects, Amps and Tone

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian is contemplating a career as a professional whistler and goat sound impersonator while Blake has been annoying his family with his wrestling impressions and Richard wants to talk about guitars. Welcome to Chasing Tone! Blake has his new Tube Amp expander and the guys talk about this and some battery powere...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The saga of Brian's use of Chat GPT to avoid him ever having to communicate with other human beings continues, much to the annoyance of Richard, and the guys look at the issue of who owns the intellectual property to AI generated material.  There was also an interesting article about the state of the music...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian is a blowing in the wind melodiously as we start this episode with some good ole' fashioned brain foggery and he admits to one common mistake that people make when building DIY pedals. By people he means him. Meanwhile Blake has been reaching stereo tonal nirvana thanks to his new Wampler Pedal. Richa...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We get off to a good start when Brian plays the wrong theme tune, it's only gonna get worse I assure you...we also livestreamed this episode with mixed results so if you want to hear Richard without the chipmunk voice, this is the place to be. There was a leak of a Strymon pedal this week and the chaps talk...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Our glorious leader has returned from his sickly malaise and although he is not quite firing on all cylinders he is at least  semi-coherent.  He has discovered some unusual effects from his illness though and opens up with some interesting observations about how his playing has changed as a result. You may have...

Blake and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast - I'm sure someone is missing here... Brian is feeling a little under the weather (to put it mildly) so Blake and Richard try and persevere whilst hoping the Indiana goat overlord recovers quickly. There will be much silliness. There will also be some sadness and very raw emotions as the guys react to the news that...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Despite thinking it was a minor tickle, Richard has been suffering with weeks of illness, and the guys experiment with recording the podcast's video - and with mixed results. How much banana is required to power a distortion pedal? This crucial question is at the forefront of the guy's minds - well, ki...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard has experienced a moment of design joy over the past holiday period which involved the "Exploding Clocks" design of the Wampler Tumnus pedal and an interaction with the person who inspired the art originally some 30+ years ago. The discussion of this leads to conversation about skateboarding, B...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! This week the guys travel through time from 2022 to 2023 to talk about things they may be doing a weeks time back in January 2023. Confused yet? You will be soon if not already...and this leads to some SRV based revelations that shake Brian to his very core. Then Brian and Blake indulge in what can only be descr...

This week Brian takes a personal look at how the Chasing Tone podcast has developed from its beginnings in 2014 right up to the present day in a special bonus episode. He takes us on a tour of the different eras of the show and the different personalities involved with a few snippets from some classic episodes. If you are a new listener to the Chasing Tone Podcast this episode may be the ideal poi...

Ho, Ho, Ho, Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new extra-festive* episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Public Announcement - we are having a week off for Christmas next week so there won't be a live episode - back in January! Hope you have a great holiday and we will see you in the New Year! Blake has been talking for hours on end and there are some genuine fears his sanity has cru...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been playing with some gain pedals and has come up with an idea for a new gain pedal that has inspired him so he chews the idea over with Blake and Richard. This leads to the inevitable naming conversation and Brian reveals some industry secrets...maybe. The guys also look at different picking techniqu...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined this week by acclaimed producer Warren Huart for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! This week the guys are joined by Warren Huart who is an LA based English record producer, engineer, musician, composer, cricket fan, and all round super cool dude.  Warren also runs the "Produce like a Pro" YouTube channel which is one of the internet&apos...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! As this text is being written Wampler are but moments away from releasing their first two pedals from a new Budget line, The Collective, and it is going to raise a few happy eyebrows before opening several wallets...so the guys naturally spend about 0.00001% of the episode marketing this fact and 99.99999% clown...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has invented a time machine and tells all about how it works in an exciting twist of fate and it doesn't get any cleverer as it progresses to Brian practicing his rolling Rs. Meanwhile in England, Richard has received a special package and gives us a live review before telling us a Twitter fuelled ane...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is making content in a hotel room,  and it has come to pass that Brian is now indeed a Country and Western megastar. He may deny it but he has played at the legendary Bluebird cafe in Nashville, TN and the guys cannot fail to be impressed. Some heavy names were dropped, and some food talk also occurred. It...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian makes an unexpected confession as we open up this weeks episode but makes up for it with some brilliant falsetto singing before making various biscuity accusations. This leads on to a conversation about fine beverages and cultural differences. Soldano just released a new pedal and the guys talk about it -...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Its a perplexing start this week as the guys are all completely confused by everything happening in the world today, particularly politics! Brian fantasises about calling a pedal the Brian Drive after reading the interview Paul Reed Smith gave in a guitar magazine recently. This leads into a funny yet illuminati...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back with a surprise guest for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has been summonsed to Nashville to put his mighty brawn to use in the art of boutique guitar string winding and has bought along a very special guest to the show, Scott Marquart - the owner of Stringjoy strings! It is fair to say that Scott is one of the world's foremost experts...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by a special guest this week,  Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We have an extra special guest this week and Brian may or may not fanboy a little bit. It is of course Chris Shiflett who is a monster player with a huge back catalogue of work - including playing in one of Brian's favorite bands, the Foo...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Due to events beyond worldly control the team are recording back to front and it throws them off balance immediately; and Blake admits to a concert first that has pleased him greatly.  One of the largest brands in guitars has released a new range of pedals and the guys have an in-depth look without actually seei...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard has developed a new system to improve fluidity of speech and it is roundly ignored by Brian and Blake before they immediately start talking about a new five-mode goat-based fuzz pedal that isn't made by Wampler. Outrageous! This leads the guys down many bizarre rabbit holes including Richard's...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard talks too much and this has been officially published to the interwebs so we immediately turn to making Brian feel all warm and fuzzy via entirely legal means and debating whether or not we are indeed the wisened Grandpappys of the Podcast world. Josh Scott did some analysis on Sweetwater's pedal sa...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is not in the Shred Shed today because he is saving the planet and Richard refuses to rap on microphone and instead speaks briefly about the rather monumental events in his own country. Meanwhile, Brian finds a way to turn this to George Lynch, and Blake brings up a related fact about Adrian Thorpe of the...

Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard has "Borrowed" a vintage 1963 Fender Stratocaster and he tells us about it - there are some surprising differences with modern Strats that he has uncovered so the guys chat about vintage guitars and that special magic they can exude.  This also leads on to a fascinating and enlightening discuss...