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“The biggest challenge for digital products is not the tone”: John Petrucci, Tosin Abasi and Devin Townsend explain what modelers don’t do as well as amps – yet

The trio of prog metal guitar titans sat down with Rick Beato and went deep on the state of modeling

Guitar World

"The biggest challenge for the digital products is not the tone" – John Petrucci doesn't believe modelling can provide the kind of 'random' moments that tube amps can yet… but Neural DSP has got the closest to "the missing piece"

"It's the feel thing… it's all happening very randomly"

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John Petrucci launches new company Tonemission, announces IR Collection

"I'm a tone freak"

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John Petrucci officially launches his own software brand, Tonemission – and its first drop replicates his exact signal chain

Tones from the Dream Theater virtuoso's three most recent albums have been profiled in Tonemission's first collection of IRs, with even more set to arrive in the future

Guitar World

It sure looks like John Petrucci is about to launch his own guitar software brand

The guitarist has trialed a new venture, Tone Mission, on his socials – and we’ve looked up the trademark...

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Steve Lukather voices support for the ‘tone is in the hands’ camp: “There’s no magic guitar, just magic people”

The Toto hero says he's played through both Eddie Van Halen and Jeff Beck's rigs, and came to the same conclusion both times: he sounds like himself no matter what he plays through

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Tosin Abasi teams up with Bad Cat Amps and is using a prototype Jet Black model on tour with Dream Theater

The Animals As Leaders guitarist is also playing a Lynx head, and you can hear them in action as he joined John Petrucci et al for an all-star performance of DT's The Spirit Carries On

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Watch John Petrucci and Tosin Abasi lock fretboards for spellbinding harmonies on Dream Theater's The Spirit Carries On

With the help of Devin Townsend – and Ernie Ball Music Man's Kaizen and Majesty models – the two prog heroes brought Dream Theater's recent tour show to a mesmerizing close

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Meet ambient shredder Jakub Zytecki – the trailblazing virtuoso who picks plugins over pedals and plays a Kurt Cobain-inspired 8-string

The Polish wunderkind explains why Polyphia and Plini have reignited his guitar fire and how he channeled John Petrucci on his stellar new album, Remind Me

Guitar World

Joe Satriani: the 10 greatest instrumental tracks ever written

Guitar wiz Joe Satriani picks 10 instrumentals that have guided him on his long career through rock

Louder

The stories of 10 'regular folk' made famous by rock songs

What do Spoonman, Arnold Layne, and an unnamed security guard at Studio 54 have in common? They all inspired classic songs

Louder

The return of Liquid Tension Experiment

After Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater few people thought they'd see prog supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment again. But in 2021 that's exactly what happened!

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NAMM 2023: Rabea Massaad joins Ernie Ball and is working an an EBMM signature model based on the Sabre

Having left Chapman late last year, Massaad joins the likes of John Petrucci, St Vincent and Tosin Abasi on the Ernie Ball Music Man artist lineup

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