Sound Like AI · Vol. 01 / Issue 1
FIG. 01
NOW DIALED: LITTLE WING J. HENDRIX · 1967
GAIN
4.0
BASS
5.0
MID
6.0
TREBLE
7.0
PRESENCE
6.0
REVERB
3.0
STAND·BY POWER

Sound Like AI

TONE MATCHER · SERIES 1

HI
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 A Delta Metrics machine

You search a song. We translate the artist's actual amp settings to your rig — your amp, your pickups, your guitar — and tell you how to play it.

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THE METHOD

Three steps. No guesswork.

01

Search the song

Pick from a hand-curated catalog of 25+ tones, or type any song we haven't seen yet. The search is fast and forgiving.

DB tones, generated_tones
02

Translate to your rig

A deterministic rule engine compensates for amp voicing, pickup output and body type. No "AI feel" — just math you can audit.

ENGINE 10 amp families · 4 pickup types
03

Dial in. Play.

Get six knob settings and one short playing tip — pickup position, attack, where the dynamics live. Ready in seconds.

OUTPUT knobs · tip · sources

THE CATALOG · 25+ ENTRIES

Tones we already know.

Hand-curated from rig rundowns and the long history of guitar magazines. Each tone is tagged with the source amp and pickup, then translated to whatever you've got plugged in.

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CAT. 01 / HEN-67-LW

Little Wing

Jimi Hendrix · 1967

AMP
Marshall Plexi
PICKUP
Single coil
GUITAR
1968 Strat
GBMTPR

"Neck pickup, light overdrive; let chords ring and use the volume knob for dynamics."

CAT. 02 / ACDC-80-BIB

Back in Black

AC/DC · 1980

AMP
Marshall 1959 SLP
PICKUP
Humbucker
GUITAR
Gibson SG
GBMTPR

"Bridge humbucker, mid-forward Marshall crunch. Pick hand does the work."

CAT. 03 / MET-91-ES

Enter Sandman

Metallica · 1991

AMP
Mesa Mark IIC+
PICKUP
Humbucker
GUITAR
ESP Hetfield
GBMTPR

"Scooped mids, bridge humbucker, tight palm mutes. Gain lower than you'd think."

CAT. 04 / U2-87-STREETS

Where the Streets Have No Name

U2 · 1987

AMP
Vox AC30
PICKUP
Single coil
GUITAR
Gibson Explorer
GBMTPR

"Chime with a dotted-eighth delay in front. The tone is 50% the delay setting."

CAT. 05 / PF-79-CN

Comfortably Numb (solo)

Pink Floyd · 1979

AMP
Hiwatt DR103
PICKUP
Single coil
GUITAR
Black Strat '69
GBMTPR

"Big Muff into the front; sing each bend. Vibrato is the voice."

CAT. 06 / SRV-83-PJ

Pride and Joy

Stevie Ray Vaughan · 1983

AMP
Fender Vibroverb
PICKUP
Single coil
GUITAR
1962 Strat
GBMTPR

"Clean with hair. Dig in hard — the dynamics come from your hands, not the amp."

+ 19 MORE

Layla. Crazy Train. Sweet Child. Eruption. Voodoo Child. Walk. Cliffs of Dover. The whole catalog is in the app.

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CAN'T FIND IT?  ·  03

Tones we don't have, we research.

Type any song and artist. The app reaches into rig rundowns, interviews, forum threads, and dusty corners of the web; an LLM extracts the actual rig and settings; the rule engine translates it to your gear.

No vibes. No "approximated." You get the source amp, the source pickup, six knob positions, and links to every web page it pulled from. Audit it yourself.

  • Source amp + guitar + pickups extracted from public web sources.
  • Cached per song+artist so the second player hits an instant copy.
  • Every result links back to its sources. Confidence score, too.
SEARCHING WEB ·· LIVE

> "voodoo child slight return rig rundown amp settings"

01 Premier Guitar — Hendrix's Plexi: The Voodoo Setup premierguitar.com
02 Roger Mayer interview — Octavia & the front end guitar.com
03 TGP thread — '69 Strat into cranked Plexi (12 replies) thegearpage.net

Fig. 02 — A research pass, taken mid-flight.

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FIELD REPORTS · UNEDITED

Read what the players say.

Submitted unsolicited. We took out the typos. The opinions are theirs. Each report includes the player's gear chain.

"Wife came in and said 'oh god not that song again.' That's the metric I use."

Asked it for the Pride and Joy thing. It knew SRV ran a Vibroverb, dropped my treble two notches, told me to dig in. Sounded right inside ten seconds.

@MikeT_Strat Austin, TX
RIG Strat → Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

"Came out closer than I'd ever gotten by ear."

Looked up Layla. App pulled the Champ + Tube Screamer thing and translated it to my Mesa. The note about pushing the front end is what actually nailed it.

@BoxOfRain_72 Brooklyn, NY
RIG Les Paul Std → Mesa .50 Cal

"Engineer told me to leave it alone."

Half my gigs are 'play it like the record.' This cuts rehearsal in half. Asked for Sultans, got the Strat-position-4 trick translated to my Tele.

@TremoloKid Nashville, TN
RIG Tele → '65 Princeton

"Eight years of trying. Eight."

Enter Sandman, scooped mids, bridge bucker, gain lower than I'd ever set it. Followed it. Drummer said it sounded like the record finally.

@SludgeFuzz Portland, OR
RIG SG → Orange Rockerverb

"Pulled from a 2009 forum post I'd never have found."

Generated a tone for a song nobody's covered. That's the moment I stopped being skeptical. Friedman doesn't have the Hiwatt voice — the app knew that and worked around it.

@NeckPickup99 Toronto, ON
RIG PRS Custom → Friedman BE-100
4.96
★★★★★
Avg. rating · n=128
25+
Curated tones
10
Amp families modeled
Songs via research

PLAY THE RECORD ↓

You bought the amp.
Now actually use it.

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