How It Works
From idea to playable guitar tone in a few focused steps.
Dial My Tone is built to shorten the path between hearing a tone and actually dialing a usable preset on your device. The workflow stays simple, but the output remains specific to the selected platform and setup. Start with the list of supported modelers and amp sims to see what your rig gets, or check what generating a tone costs.
Set the tone goal
Choose whether you want a song-based tone, a style-based starting point, or a tone inspired by a specific artist.
Match the request to your rig
Pick your manufacturer, device, pickup configuration, pickup models, and monitoring setup so the result fits the gear you actually use.
Generate a platform-correct signal chain
Dial My Tone returns a structured signal chain, parameter settings, and notes tailored to the selected device instead of generic amp advice.
Refine from feedback
If the first pass is too dark, too bright, too compressed, or misses the right gain structure, you can revise it and tighten the result.
What the output is designed to give you
The goal is a fast, realistic starting point you can trust enough to tweak in context.
Song-based tone generation
Best when you want a starting point for a specific song, solo, rhythm section, or artist recording approach.
Style-based tone generation
Useful when you want a general tone family such as modern prog lead, blues edge-of-breakup, or ambient clean.
Monitoring-aware adjustments
Results can be shaped differently for FRFR, headphones, or other monitoring contexts so the preset translates more predictably.
How signal chains are laid out
A note on routing, so the preset you get matches what you see on the device.
A single signal path
Unless a tone is generated in parallel, it is one signal path running from your guitar to the output. On grid-based devices the blocks may be spread across more than one row so the whole chain fits, and the result tells you which row each block belongs on, so it lines up with what you see on the unit.
Parallel rigs, where the device can hold them
Some classic tones were tracked with genuinely parallel rigs: the signal split into two amps, each with its own cab, summed back together, or a wet/dry setup. On the devices whose routing Dial My Tone can validate — Line 6 Helix Floor, LT, Rack and Native, and Fractal Axe-Fx III, FM9 and FM3 — you can ask for Serial, Parallel or Auto before generating, and the result draws the split it actually built, with the routing it settled on. Fractal Auto uses Parallel only when song research verifies a split; Style and Inspired-by stay Serial unless you choose Parallel. Every other device is returned as the closest practical serial approximation: a working starting point you can split by hand on hardware that supports it. Sending a finished tone straight to the unit over USB is a separate feature and remains FM9-only. The example results show how a finished chain is laid out.
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