The Front Page· Issue No. 0018
Real rigs. Real intelligence.
A guitar community grounded in what is actually on the floor — pedalboards, amps, strings, and tunings on the page. Talk tone in the forum, publish your rig, and read the room like a magazine.
On the cover
NH@noor.haddad— Faruk Türünz Oud into a Fender Twin Reverb
Fig. 01 — The Cover Rig
Live
@noor.haddad
Oud through a Twin. Yes, really.
Tuning · D D G A D D —
GUITARFaruk Türünz Oud
signal source
TUNERBoss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner
mute · true-bypass
REVERBBoss RV-6 Reverb
tail · long
DIGITAL DLYBoss DD-8 Digital Delay
standby
EFFECTStrymon Big Sky
+1 more · 5 total
AMPLIFIERFender Twin Reverb
output stage
“Oud through a Twin. Yes, really.” — @noor.haddad
5 pedals · D D G A D D
01 — The Roast
Fifteen voices. One pedalboard. Zero mercy.
The most opinionated minds in guitar — AI impressions — pointed at your chain. Funny, specific, built to share.
- Josh ScottThe pedal historian
- Rhett ShullWhat's really going on
- Pete ThornSession pragmatism
- Henning PaulyThe scientist
- Rabea MassaadHigh-gain joyride
- Mary SpenderThe songwriter's lens
- Tim HensonPolyphia precision
- Nita StraussArena shredder
- The Andertons CaptainThe Captain's review
- Tom QuayleJazz-fusion lens
- The TGP CurmudgeonBoomer with opinions
- The Boutique SnobNo mass-produced
- The Reverb Listing HawkAlways flipping
- The Modeler EvangelistJust buy a Quad Cortex
- The Vintage PuristPre-CBS only
“A Tube Screamer into a modeler? Son — I had that exact pedal in 1979. Except mine ran into a real Bassman and never once asked for a firmware update.”
Walk away with share cards in three sizes — feed, square, and story.
AI impressions, not the real people.
02 — The Column
The Internet Has Thoughts.
What the press wouldn't print — honest as a forum, legible as a magazine.
The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's Revv Amps Dirtdog Review.
Premier Guitar called it a Princeton in a box. Buyers called it something woolier.
Read the take ↗The Internet Has Thoughts About Guitar Player's Supro Airwave Review.
Guitar Player loved the Two Notes integration. YouTube asked about the effects loop.
Read the take ↗The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's EHX Bass Big Muff Pi 2 Review.
Premier Guitar said your guitarist will be jealous. The forum had already moved on.
Read the take ↗03 — The Magazine
Gear takes, edited and signed.
Hot takes on the boxes worth keeping and the boxes worth selling — written by guitarists with actual boards.
The four amps every working guitarist should know intimately.
Not own. Know. There's a difference. These four cover 90 percent of what walks into a gig.
The case for never owning a guitar wireless system.
I've tried six. They were all worse than a cable. Here's why I think they always will be.
What to look for in a used Twin Reverb.
There are about four good ones for every fifteen on Reverb. Here's how to tell them apart.
I've changed my mind about TS-style overdrives.
I called them mid-humped, boring, and overrated. I've been wrong for about a decade.
The five-minute tone fix that changed my rig.
It cost nothing. It was the difference between a rig I tolerated and a rig I loved.
05 — The Catalog
Three ways into the deep shelves.
The article archive, the pedal catalog, and the tone-recipe kitchen.
Every piece we’ve written.
Hot takes, buyer’s guides, reversals, and the occasional half-finished thought. Filterable by author.
Pedals we have a position on.
Editorial entries with verdicts, tone notes, famous users, and cross-links to articles and recipes.
Famous tones, with the recipe.
Real signal chains that recreate specific famous sounds — the gear, the settings, the secret sauce.
06 — Sister Archive
Suede DNA — tonal genealogy.
The rigs that made the records: documented signal chains across fifty years, archived.
Signal chains, archived.
The rigs that made the records. Each guitarist's chain of documented setups, treated as a tonal genealogy stretched across time — sourced from the Guitar Geek archives.
- Rigs
- 409 rigs
- Artists
- 390 artists
- Year range
- 1964 — 2014
07 — Now Spinning
Suede Studio Guitar fingerprints, just woken up.
Live rig fingerprints, fresh off the tuner.
- NH@noor.haddad4w activeFaruk Türünz Oudthrough Fender Twin Reverb5pedalsD D G A D D
- DK@dani.kowalski4w activeFender Mustangthrough Vox AC109pedalsDrop D
- SV@sam.varney4w activeFender Jazz Bassthrough Sunn Beta Bass3pedals
- JR@jules.rourke4w activeRickenbacker 330through Vox AC308pedals
- GS@greer.shepard4w activeFender Tele Customthrough Fender Princeton Reverb4pedals
- AK@aris.kemp4w activeMartin D-28through Fishman Loudbox Mini2pedalsDADGAD
- LF@lo.flannery4w activeGibson '54 Les Paulthrough Fender Twin Reverb12pedalsOpen G
- MA@mira.alves4w activeFender Strat HSSthrough Fender Deluxe Reverb6pedalsDrop D
- KT@kobu.tinker4w activeFender Jaguarthrough Vox AC156pedalsD Standard
- TW@thelma.weller4w activeFender Jazzmaster '72 RIthrough Fender Twin Reverb6pedalsDrop C#
- J@jay4w activeFender American Vintage IIthrough Vox AC305pedalsDrop D
- NH@noor.haddad4w activeFaruk Türünz Oudthrough Fender Twin Reverb5pedalsD D G A D D
- DK@dani.kowalski4w activeFender Mustangthrough Vox AC109pedalsDrop D
- SV@sam.varney4w activeFender Jazz Bassthrough Sunn Beta Bass3pedals
- JR@jules.rourke4w activeRickenbacker 330through Vox AC308pedals
- GS@greer.shepard4w activeFender Tele Customthrough Fender Princeton Reverb4pedals
- AK@aris.kemp4w activeMartin D-28through Fishman Loudbox Mini2pedalsDADGAD
- LF@lo.flannery4w activeGibson '54 Les Paulthrough Fender Twin Reverb12pedalsOpen G
- MA@mira.alves4w activeFender Strat HSSthrough Fender Deluxe Reverb6pedalsDrop D
- KT@kobu.tinker4w activeFender Jaguarthrough Vox AC156pedalsD Standard
- TW@thelma.weller4w activeFender Jazzmaster '72 RIthrough Fender Twin Reverb6pedalsDrop C#
- J@jay4w activeFender American Vintage IIthrough Vox AC305pedalsDrop D
08 — Account
Your seat in the room.
One Suede login covers Studio Guitar, Social, and whatever ships next.
09 — From The Room
What guitarists are arguing about today.
Recent threads, straight from the forum floor.
Discussion: I've changed my mind about TS-style overdrives.
Stereo into two amps, six months in, regrets and rewards
Princeton speaker swap, Weber or Jensen
10 — In This Issue
Pages worth opening.
Four doors into the building — the forum, your rig card, Studio Guitar, and the recipes.
The Forum — searchable, signal-anchored, no algorithm.
Ask the room what fuzz to pair with a Princeton. Post a Rig Diary entry the moment you find your tone.
Rig Cards — a living signal chain.
Guitar, pedals, amp, strings, tunings. Synced from Suede Studio Guitar when you let it; hand-tuned when you don't.
Suede Studio Guitar — where the fingerprint comes from.
Tuner, rigs, timing, ideas — plus the pedal catalog, tone recipes, and the Oracle. Studio Guitar measures how you play, then feeds the fingerprint that anchors your Social profile.
Tone Recipes — load a famous rig as a starting point.
Load a famous rig or share your own. The Oracle and the rest of the rig tools live one click into your profile.