TonesMatch

TonesMatch is an audio tool that turns any song into amp and pedal settings for your own rig. TonesMatch matches the guitar or bass tone of a song to your own guitar, amp and pedals, returning exact knob, pickup and pedal settings drawn from a researched database of tones and profiled gear.

TonesMatch is a web service that translates the guitar or bass tone of a recorded song into settings for the gear a player actually owns. The user types a song title, and the service returns an amp setup, pickup position and pedal chain, recalculated for a chosen guitar and amplifier instead of a generic reference rig. The catalog covers more than 24,000 researched tones, with over 2,000 guitars, 1,500 amps, 879 pedals and 155 basses profiled. The central idea is that recommendations come from structured gear data, not free-form text generation. Each tone is researched against the amp, pedal order and pickup position used on the original recording, drawing on studio session notes, rig rundowns and guitar communities, with sources cited and a confidence score attached. The adaptation step then accounts for single-coil versus humbucker pickups, tube versus modeling amps and several cabinet voicings, and it limits output to controls that exist on the selected amp, including channel names, boost types and selector positions. The site contrasts this with general-purpose chatbots, which can suggest knobs or channels a given amp does not have. In practice the workflow is short: pick a song, add a guitar, amp and pedals once, and receive a set of values that can be dialed in directly. Browsing songs and seeing the original gear is free, and the homepage says the first match needs no account. Adapted results beyond that sit behind two subscription plans, one capped at 20 adaptations a month and one unlimited, both covering guitar and bass, saved tones and saved gear presets. TonesMatch suits home players with modest amps who want recognizable tones without trial and error, as well as bassists and anyone with a modeling amp full of presets. Among alternatives, it sits between forum threads, static amp-settings articles and general AI chat: narrower than those in scope, but tied to real control sets. Coverage depends on the researched library and the gear catalog, so unusual rigs or obscure songs may fall outside it.