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Every month The ToneQuest Report delivers timely reviews of new and vintage gear, in-depth interviews with guitarists who have made the journey... insightful interviews with guitar and amp builders, plus reviews and tips on speakers, effects, tubes,  modifications... everything in the chain that defines your tone. The bottom line is this - When you sound better, you play better, and when you subscribe to The ToneQuest Report, you do so backed by our unconditional money-back guarantee. You risk nothing but uninspiring tone! 

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David Grissom

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Our exclusive 10-page interview with David covers all the guitars, amps and effects, and why he uses them, plus - 
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May 2008 Cover Story

You can only get it here... Renowned acoustic builder Bill Collings on designing and building Collings electrics, Collings reviews, restoration and refin 101 with Gord Miller, plus ToneQuest Advisory Board Member Peter Frampton on his lifelong obsession with tone! 


Hear "Float" with Peter Frampton and TQ board member Gordon Kennedy from Peter's Grammy award winning Fingerprints CD.

 

 

 


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Dec '08  Cheap Thrills (that we've never needed more...)
The Speaker Issue

Reviews - Jensen Neo, Jet Tornado Neo, Jensen Alnico Jet Blackbird, Jet Electric Lightning, Jensen MOD 30, MOD 50
and MOD 70
Reviews - Eminence Cannabis Rex, Red Fang 10 & 12, Eminence Legend 1058, 'Lil Texas, Man 'o War, Tonespotter and our pick for a righteous 12...
the Eminence Screamin' Eagle  
Reviews - Celestion... Our go-to picks
Review - Warehouse Speakers' Veteran 30, Green Beret, Black & Blue and Blackhawk
Interview & Review- The return of Fane
Review - The Electro-Voice
EVM12-L 
Review - The Art of Dreaming... Optimizing the Fender '57 Twin
Review - Lee Jackson's analog spring reverb pedal - meet Mr. Springgy
Review - Vanilla Fudge... Fralin P90s
Review - The DST U84 amp
Review - Adrian Legg reviews the Fishman Aura


 

Jan '09 Horse Latitudes... The Spanish Castle revisited. One year after our dance with 6 vintage '59 Les Pauls and a motherload of PAFs and early '60s pickups, has anyone nailed the sound and feel of vintage PAFs? 

Our interviews and in-depth reviews with Tom Holmes, Lindy Fralin, RS Guitarworks' Roy Bowen, Slider and Will Boggs 
Tone expose- Why pickup swaps can't add what isn't there, and why we bought 7 Historic Les Pauls ... 
Review - Pots, tone caps and pickup covers - Why they matter, and how much
Review - Our favorite contemporary humbuckers revealed



Aug '08 The David Grissom Issue! David deals an inside straight  - guitars, amps, effects and Loud Music

Review - The PRS David Grissom Signature guitar Interview - Paul Reed Smith on the Grissom Signature, pickups and more... Review - Cortez the Killer... Relic '59 Esquire toploader Review - Danelectro Baritone - everybody needs one Review – The Badcat Panther Review - 65 Amps Dual 6V6 Monterey


 

April '08 The Spanish Castle...
A day in the life of six vintage '59 Les Pauls, plus the PAF and patent number pickup mystique explored, tested and revealed.


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In a blindfold test, you'd never pick it... Stevie Ray Vaughan's stolen Vibroverb snatched from 'Methboy' and reviewed here, plus, Buying a Stairway to Nowhere - the real Led Zep Supro, and super-builder Chuck Thornton's stunning guitars...


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