2 months ago
Six months in, still using it weekly
That is the real review.
Tonelify player
“Six months in, still using it weekly. That is the real review.”
“No fluff. Pick song, pick gear, get numbers. This is how software should be.”
“Cheap enough that I stopped thinking about whether it was worth it. It just is.”
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Plans that fit how you play
Name a song and the gear you already own. Get the knob positions that get you there.
Your first tone match is free with an account. No card needed.
Join 1,000+ guitarists dialing in their own rigs
Sets how the paid plans are billed
Stage
For working up a setlist
$83.88SAVE 52%
$3.33/mo($39.99 a year)
$39.99 billed once a year
$43.89 back in your pocket every year
7-day free trial
The whole plan for 7 days. Cancel before it ends and your card is never charged.
- 20 tone matchesper month
- 15 saved tonesKept in your collection
- Gear presets for each rigEnter your rig once, reuse it
- Effects chain and signal orderWhere each pedal sits
- Sources on every matchSee where the settings came from
The counters are the only difference. A match returns the same settings, the same effects chain and the same sources on either plan.
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Headliner
For playing week in, week out
$131.88SAVE 62%
$4.17/mo($49.99 a year)
$49.99 billed once a year
$81.89 back in your pocket every year
7-day free trial
The whole plan for 7 days. Cancel before it ends and your card is never charged.
- Unlimited tone matchesNo monthly counter, fair use of 150 a day
- Unlimited saved tonesNo cap on your collection
- Gear presets for each rigEnter your rig once, reuse it
- Effects chain and signal orderWhere each pedal sits
- Sources on every matchSee where the settings came from
- Tone tips for every matchTechnique the knobs cannot cover
Not ready to pick one? Run your first match free. The tone library and the gear pages are open to everyone, no account needed.
Payments handled by Stripe. Cancel from Settings at any time.
Before you pay
What is the difference between Stage and Headliner?+
How much you can do, not what you get. Stage covers 20 tone matches and 15 saved tones a month. Headliner lifts both to unlimited, with a fair use limit of 150 new matches a day. A match returns exactly the same settings, effects chain and sources on either plan, so nothing about the answer is held back on the cheaper one.
Is the yearly plan charged every month?+
No. Yearly is a single payment of $49.99. The $4.17 a month figure is that one payment divided across the twelve months, shown that way so it lines up against the monthly price.
How does the 7-day free trial work?+
Both plans start with 7 free days on either interval, and nothing is charged until they are up. Cancel inside those 7 days and you pay nothing. The trial is for first-time subscribers, so coming back after a cancellation starts billing straight away.
Can I switch between monthly and yearly?+
Yes, and between the two plans as well. Open the billing portal from this page or from Settings and pick the other one. Stripe credits whatever you already paid for against the new price, so you are never billed twice for the same days.
What happens if I cancel?+
You keep everything until the end of the period you already paid for, then matching and saving stop. Nothing is deleted: your saved tones and gear presets stay in your collection, and they come back as soon as you subscribe again.
Is there a free plan?+
Not a plan, but your first tone match is free. Make an account, run one match on your own gear and keep that tone in your library, with no card needed. After that both plans start with a 7-day free trial, a full week of unlimited use within the daily fair use limit. Browsing the tone library, the gear pages and the guides needs no account at all.
From the record to your rig
Every tone traced to its sources
98 records in the library, each one checked against published sources for the guitar, the amp and the pedals, and clear about any part of the rig that was never documented. Then translated to whatever you own.
Master of Puppets
Metallica
DISTORTED · RIFF · 1980s
The sound
Scooped mids, razor-tight palm-muted chug
The rig behind it
Adapt it to your gear →James Hetfield's Jackson King V through a Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ used as a preamp into Marshall heads and 4x12 cabinets, recorded with Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen
November Rain
Guns N' Roses
DISTORTED · SOLO · 1990s
The sound
Singing neck-pickup lead with silky sustain
The rig behind it
Adapt it to your gear →Slash's Les Paul into the Marshall JCM800 2203 modified by Frank Levi and known as #34, the amp behind his tone from Use Your Illusion onwards, with the solo worked up from an improvisation
Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits
CLEAN · SOLO · 1970s
The sound
Glassy in-between Strat quack, fingerstyle snap
The rig behind it
Adapt it to your gear →Mark Knopfler's 1961 Fender Stratocaster with its three-way selector jammed between two positions, into a Fender Twin by his own account, recorded at Basing Street Studios in London in February 1978
What Guitarists Say
Rated 4.7 out of 5 from 73 reviews. A few of the recent ones:
3 months ago
Bedroom volume settings are a separate problem and this actually accounts for it. Everything else on the internet assumes you can push a 100 watt head.
Tonelify player
3 months ago
I run a small guitar shop and I show this to customers who are stuck between two amps. It explains the difference better than I can in a busy shop.
Tonelify player
3 months ago
Got a proper Peter Green out of position tone out of a fairly ordinary Epiphone. Still slightly shocked.
Tonelify player
4 months ago
Cheap enough that I stopped thinking about whether it was worth it
It just is.
Tonelify player
4 months ago
The gear pages have real specs on them now, wattage and speaker and all that. I used one to decide which amp to buy secondhand.
Tonelify player
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What players said after running a match on their own rig
4.7
73 reviews, showing the latest 12
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