Tonelify

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Match legendary guitar tones to your gear

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Your Gear

Select your current equipment configuration

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Song & Part

Identify the track and tone you want to capture

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One-Click Adaptation

AI-generated settings for your specific gear

Original Tone

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Select a song and run research to analyze the original track's signal chain

Your Adaptation

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AI will calculate the optimal settings for your guitar and amp

How guitar tone matching works

Tone matching is the job of working out where to set the controls on your own equipment so it lands on the same sound as a recording. Four things carry a tone across rigs: the gain structure, the EQ curve, the pickup position and the order of the effects. A high-gain head and a small practice combo reach the same voicing from very different knob positions, and calculating that translation is what Tonelify does.

Tonelify does not record, upload or analyse audio, so there is nothing to install and no audio interface required. It works from the documented rig behind a recording and from the gear you name, which means it runs entirely on text. The settings reach the amp-in-the-room version of a tone rather than the mixed and mastered record, because layered takes, studio compression, mic placement and mastering all sit between the amp and the released file.

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    Enter your gear

    Name the guitar, the amp and the pickup configuration you actually own. Tonelify needs the rig it is translating to, not the one on the record.

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    Name the reference tone

    Give a song and artist, or describe the sound in plain language. Tonelify reads the documented signal chain behind that recording.

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    Get the dial positions

    Tonelify returns gain, bass, mids, treble, master and presence values, a pickup position and the order of the effects, set for your equipment.

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