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Get closer to the music that made you love guitar.
Explore the stories behind legendary recordings, build your personal Riff Vault, and recreate iconic tones with the gear you own — all with TGP Premium.
$4.99/month · $49.99/year — Best value
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What a ToneMD answer actually looks like.
One real example: a member asks for an Eddie Van Halen sound on a BOSS Katana-100 MkII with a humbucker guitar. Every control below exists on that amp.
Tone you're chasing
Eddie Van Halen — Unchained
Amp you own
BOSS Katana-100 MkII
Guitar you own
Humbucker-equipped solidbody
Signal chain (fixed BOSS order)
- Amp character
- BROWN — variation switch on (red)
- Gain
- 6.5
- Volume / Master
- 4.0 / room level
- Bass · Middle · Treble
- 5.0 · 6.5 · 6.0
- Presence
- 6.0
- Booster
- Nat OD — Drive 2.5, Bottom 0, Tone +2, Solo off
- Mod
- Phaser — slow rate, depth about 20%
- Delay
- Analog — 340 ms, Feedback 2 repeats, Level 20%
- Reverb
- Plate — short time, Level 15%
- Guitar
- Bridge humbucker, guitar tone at 8
Example output. ToneMD gives you a starting point built around the controls your rig actually has — then you refine it by ear in your own room.
Know the stories behind the music.
Long-form member journalism about the records, riffs and players that shaped guitar — plus the Magazine Time Machine, an era-by-era archive you can read as if it had just been printed. Every story opens with a free preview; members read the whole thing.
Dimebag Darrell Didn't Just Make Metal Heavier—He Made It Swing
Inside the fearless Texas guitar language, brutal-but-musical tone, and melodic instinct that made Dimebag Darrell impossible to imitate — and impossible to replace.
Premium story · preview free
History of the Riff: Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" — The Sound That Made the Electric Guitar Dangerous
Feedback before the riff, four Marshall cabinets, a microphone eight feet away and a Stratocaster flipped upside down — the full story of the riff that made the electric guitar sound dangerous.
Premium story · preview free
History of the Riff: How Prince Turned "Purple Rain" Into Guitar Immortality
A song born onstage, a guitar part that barely needs distortion, and a solo built on emotion instead of excess — the full story of "Purple Rain" and its immortal guitar moment.
Premium story · preview free
Build your personal Riff Vault.
Save the riffs and solos you love as you read, rank them into your own Top 25, and add personal notes about why each one matters. Free readers can save five entries; Premium removes the limit and keeps your Vault on your profile.
Browse The Riff VaultStart collecting. Then start ranking.
An illustrative preview. Tap a few to see how a Vault takes shape — members save riffs and solos as they read, rank them and add their own notes.
Your Vault, your ranking, your story
Get closer to the tones you love.
Tell ToneMD the sound you’re chasing and the equipment you own. Get a starting point for your amp settings, effects, and signal chain — then refine it by ear in your own room.
Ad-free reading
No display ads. Switch gear and shopping links back on whenever you want.
Personalization
Dark Mode, six TGP skins and a homepage that reorders around what you follow.
Guitar Goal Planner
The digital planner for practice goals and progress, included with membership.
XP, levels and badges
Your reading streak, level and badges collected on your member profile.
What changes when you join
Everything free stays free. Premium adds the members-only side on top.
Free
- Guitar news, gear stories and artist features
- Practice Hub: chords, scales, fretboard trainer
- Riff Vault browsing and up to 5 saves
- Newsletter and reader polls
- No ToneMD, Time Machine archive or Premium stories
$4.99/mo · $49.99/yr
Renews automatically until you cancel. Cancel any time from your dashboard.
- Everything in Free
- Premium-only stories and features
- Magazine Time Machine archive
- Riff Vault: unlimited saves, personal notes and your Top 25
- ToneMD tone starting points for your own gear
- Ad-free reading (switch gear links back on any time)
- Personalization: dark mode, TGP skins, your homepage
- Guitar Goal Planner
Before you join
- Is Premium useful if I don't play guitar?
- Yes, for the reading. Premium stories and the Magazine Time Machine archive are written for anyone who loves the records and the players. ToneMD is the one part that assumes you own gear — it asks what amp and guitar you play through.
- What is included immediately?
- Everything, as soon as your payment goes through: premium stories, the Time Machine archive, unlimited Riff Vault saves and notes, ToneMD, ad-free reading, personalization and the Guitar Goal Planner.
- What stays free?
- Guitar news, gear stories and artist features, the Practice Hub tools, reader polls and the newsletter. You can browse the Riff Vault and save up to five entries without paying.
- How do renewal and cancellation work?
- Premium renews automatically — monthly at $4.99 or yearly at $49.99 — until you cancel. Payments are handled by our payments partner, and you can cancel any time from your dashboard. When you cancel you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for.
- Which String Club plans include Premium?
- String Club is a separate product: physical X Concepts strings posted to you each month. Club Only ($12.99/month) does not include Premium. Club + Premium ($15.99/month), Double + Premium ($22.99/month) and Pro + Premium ($29.99/month) do, and Premium starts immediately when you join. Every String Club plan adds $2.50/month shipping, and string shipments begin in early October, then monthly. See String Club plans.
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