Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! There's a lot going on in the world, happily that includes some pedal releases, and so Blake comes in with some of his own special extrovert phantasmal energy to help launch the new Benson Amps delay pedal. Brian and Richard discuss nerdy things to do with circuits, discuss some of the previous Wampler delay pedals (including the Wampler Metaverse), and remarkably Blake remains awake throughout. Meanwhile Bria...
Oct 18, 2023•53 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake's ready to become cybernetic so he ponders his potential upgrade path before the guys discuss a huge new release announcement from Fender, the Tone Master pro. Its a full scale digital modeling solution and it has the guys attention. Meanwhile, Richard is made to eat his words about who is the biggest fender fan on the show. But he is impressed with the marketing power of the aforementioned Californian g...
Oct 11, 2023•56 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys start off with an unhealthy dose of utter nonsense before looking at some of the gear news of the moment including the new IR-X from Friedman. It has real tubes in it and Brian is a fan. Richard asks stupid questions and Blake sniggers at him. Brian talks about frequency spectrums. A pedal is virtually designed and it is laughed out of the room and Richard gets some appreciation bucks from Brian. What...
Oct 04, 2023•49 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Wampler have released limited editions of two of their most popular products from the past, the Tweed'57 and the Black'65 "Amp in a Box" pedals, and Brian breaks down a little bit of the history of how they came to be. He also makes a number of potentially foolish video based confessions. Brian explains the core properties of the tone-stacks of the amp's these were based around, and how these pedals are a litt...
Sep 27, 2023•55 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian starts off with some pure filth and Richard tells us tales of the life of an English school kid which massively confuses Brian and Blake. Meanwhile, Richard has graduated from pedal kits and has made his own pedal from scratch and tells us about it. He makes a slight tiny mistake, well, many, and informs us of his errors in great detail. Brian lowers the tone further before the guys talk about solder, op...
Sep 20, 2023•59 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has been struggling with various household appliances and Brian has helpful diagnostic information while Richard provides an interesting view on electrical safety differences between certain countries. There is an update to a previous story regarding a famous gear Youtuber / Retailer and how the British advertising authorities reacted and what that means moving forward. Richard provides an overview of hi...
Sep 13, 2023•47 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard makes some bold and outrageous claims about his fuzz pedal credentials having built exactly one pedal ever and has had some help from one of our supporters and tells us all about it before he and Brian have a genius business idea. Yes genius that is what i said. Blake enquires about the density of a key component and Richard has the geekiest thing he has ever owned. Brian has had a long weekend, a veri...
Sep 06, 2023•53 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian and Blake come at Richard with some stereotyping and then Richard confesses he has been listening to some country music and some classic American rock. Is this a negative reality inversion? Meanwhile Blake tells us about a recent vacation where he got to play a guitar that needed serious setup. Brian asks about Richard's DIY and immediately regrets at least some of it and we soon discover its now turned ...
Aug 30, 2023•51 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are here for a classic episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian's out of town, possibly making something that is classified for someone top secret, and so we've decided to re-run one of our classic episodes for you this week with one of our favorite guests of all time, Mr Greg Koch. If you are a member of our Patreon we did record an extra show for you to check out as a thank you for your, ahem, patronage. It would be remiss of me not to say that now is a great time t...
Aug 23, 2023•56 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has an anecdote about the Dave Matthews band which he shares with the guys while Richard talks about Threads and an advert that uses the same piece of stock music as this show does. Brian recalls the time he met Hartley Peavey, Blake worries about the provenance of his hat, and Richard talks about the new Jake. E. Lee signature amp from Dave Friedman which he very much loves. How do you set the whammy ba...
Aug 16, 2023•55 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys go straight in at 80,000 feet with the UFO hearing in the USA that dominated the news for about 24 hours and discuss the ramifications of such revelations. Brian speculates that there is more going on and Richard uses a long word and tells us about the horrific weather he has experienced this summer in England. Get your tin foil hat ready. The legendary amplifier company Sunn has been resurrected from...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! In the light of recent current events, Richard has decide to rebrand himself, so Blake helps him out with a phone call to someone before telling us about another music festival he attended. Meanwhile, Brian has been hanging out on tour buses, licking windows, and ignoring Barbie while Richard has learned how to make a nuclear device. The guys have noticed a slew of pedal releases in the last week so ponder if ...
Aug 02, 2023•53 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by the ultra talented YouTube sensation Trey Xavier for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! The guys are delighted to be joined by the one and only Trey Xavier this week who's "Secret Price of the Creative Life" video almost caused Brian to reach his resonant frequency and spontaneously shatter. Trey is a super nice, ridiculously talented, and ultra experienced YouTube creator and he has got a hugely popular channel where amongst other things he b...
Jul 26, 2023•57 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake's not wearing his trademark tank top and this has turned Brian's world upside down and inside out and he confesses that he feels subnormal. To augment this Brian has been trying to use AI to build guitar pedals with some limited success so he tells us a little about the lessons he has learned and those he wished he had learned while Richard tells us about his love for Taylor Swift. Richard tells us a bit...
Jul 19, 2023•49 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is aroused at an ungodly hour in order to fit podcasting in with his schedule of celebrations while Richard is holding speaker and amplifier brands for bargaining power as he attempts to understand the customs of his American friends. Blake is also considering expanding his empire and this turns into a conversation about land prices and his new understanding of capo love. Josh Scott of JHS pedals did a l...
Jul 12, 2023•54 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is back from Sweetwater's gearfest and he is quite excited to share the many random shenanigans he has been involved in including participating in various manly exercises with Dovydas. He's also hung out with pretty much everyone who is anyone in the gear world and dishes up all the juicy gossip. Well. Kinda. Blake also got to try out the new PRS T-Style guitar and has views - and Brian admits he is open...
Jul 06, 2023•58 min
Brian, Richard, and, (checks notes), Jake are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is away to Sweetwater for some sort of content creator jamboree so we are blessed to be joined by the giant intellect of Jake Steffes, Wampler's top engineer, and he has some grievances to air. Richard is intrigued to hear about Jake's early years, how he got into electronics and how he wound up making awesome pedals via Brian's legendary deck and fishpond. Brian and Richard have a genius...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been playing with some new audio hardware and we open up hard and fast with his new purchase and why it is pleasantly surprising and why he should never be allowed near the naming of pedals. Meanwhile Fender have announced a brand new fuzz pedal which has set the internet ablaze with interest and the guys take a misinformed sidewards glance at this news while Blake salivates muchly. Our good friend M...
Jun 21, 2023•49 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are joined by the one and only Cory Wong for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! We are joined by the legend that is Cory Wong and naturally we talk compression and specifically the Wampler x Cory Wong Compressor. First though, it's calculator nostalgia - because why not? Cory then gives us a little insight into his early days, his formative influences, and the mindset he developed that has got him to where he is today. Creative folk are going to absolutely ...
Jun 14, 2023•59 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has been collecting Brians and we discover what on earth this actually means this week in an all new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! He also has a new pedal from Origin and has fallen in love with it so he spills the beans. Not literally, that would be messy. Meanwhile Brian has a new obsession that leaves Richard distinctly unimpressed. Richard has been learning about the importance and power of go...
Jun 07, 2023•55 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been banned from using a certain AI program and Blake has eaten a mighty breakfast which the guys open up with. Meanwhile Brian has been to Nashville - and there is discussion about castles - and he also went to see Brent Mason and ended up one incredibly beautiful Strat better off! The world's least secret proto-type-type gets a mention again while Brian suffers from some serious whammy bar distress...
May 31, 2023•1 hr
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake is excited about his new clothing purchases and Richard admits to certain middle age features. Welcome to the dad fashion episode. Meanwhile Richard got to visit the studio of McFly and gives us a report on what he found. Mainly guitars. Lovely guitars - and awesome solos too... Brian's been thinking about Strats again...will this result in a new mini obsession for Captain Wamps? Well lets wait and see.....
May 24, 2023•55 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian fantasises about British Hulk Hogan as we slip into todays crevice of disorderly and disjointed discussion nuggets. Firstly there is some talk about female vocalists and Brian reveals who his favorite female fronted band is. There is a new CEO at Gibson so the guys talk about what this might mean for such a prestigious and historic brand. Richard drops his greatest / worst (delete as applicable) pun ever...
May 17, 2023•52 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian makes a confession which disappoints Blake and delights Richard so the episode begins with some serious GAS with an additional helping of buffoonery. This leads into a discussion about DIY guitar building and Blake channels his inner Bruce Dickinson. According to the internet Blake is a string billionaire and we look into the rumors circulating about his collection of superyachts and Richard gets a well ...
May 10, 2023•50 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast which this week has been sponsored by Henning Pauly's new songwriting course! The guys start off with a little look at how the Cory Wong compressor first came to be with a couple of fond memories of our much missed tone brother Mr. Alex Clay who was integral to the conception of our latest pedal. Blake has been eyeing up new pickup sets and has settled on a brand and asks the guys for advice and almost immediat...
May 03, 2023•55 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake kicks off with a demonstration of his new super (annoying) powers (which nauseates Richard immensely) before the guys go straight in to some news from the music and Ai worlds. Someone has managed to make an Ai Kanye and it sounds particularly impressive so the guys debate what this means with their normal levels of detail and insight. Blake has been playing with the new BOSS Gigcaster which despite being...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake comes in fast and cold with what he describes as a "mini rant" about a shopping experience he had whilst looking for a particular rare pedal and the guys discuss the joys of trying to get ones own money refunded. Meanwhile Richard has discovered that a famous rock band takes sustenance from a very traditional British drink whilst he laments about his lack of NAMM. Somehow Arnold Schwarzenegger is involve...
Apr 19, 2023•53 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Richard almost accidentally leaked a new pedal on the video version of the show and somehow this leads into a discussion about Chat GPT and pizza. Only one of those topics is worthy of the attention and it isn't the one Brian chooses. We also learn of the nefarious activities of the Welsh Secret Service whilst enjoying an almost intelligent discussion about the internet. Blake's off to NAMM and he is worried a...
Apr 12, 2023•52 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Blake has got some new toys and it causes much annoyance to Richard within 60 seconds and this in turn leads to irregular vitamin suspicions and a tale of Blake's Grandfather's Mexican shopping adventures. Meanwhile Brian has established what day it is and Richard schools him in the ways of time traveling and 90's rave moves. It is the final part of the DAW deep dive and it starts off with a disclaimer about t...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Brian, Blake, and Richard are back for an all-new episode of the Chasing Tone Podcast! Brian has been burning the candle at both ends as they say as he has been working on number of new circuits. This leads the guys onto a discussion about a certain green simian themed pedal that has been literally meme'd to death. There has also been a lot of slightly dubious information circulating the interwebs about the circuit design of this particular pedal so Brian breaks it down and gives us a look at wh...
Mar 29, 2023•56 min
