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Writing about electric guitar technology and culture from an engineering-focused perspective Helping artists w/ web + social media infrastructure Nuerodivergent software engineer. Metalhead. I love Super Strats and Explorers https://tubesandcode.studio/

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Coolest business card I've ever seen. It's a PCB for a 9v preamplifier. This is insanely clever.

16.02.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is cool! I liked that era of CrΓΌe

16.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. πŸ’™πŸ’› Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

14.02.2026 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1490    πŸ” 1025    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 67
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Fender Deluxe Reverb '65 Reissue | Clean | SM57 + Royer R-121 + Room NAM Profiles by @desmondstudio Β· TONE3000 Check out desmondstudio's neural full rig / combo capture for guitar, bass and recording: This Amp Capture Set will available soon in our shop : desmondstudio.com (coming soon - website under construc...

this is another one I like:

www.tone3000.com/tones/fender...

13.02.2026 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marshall DSL5CR w/ LCT 240 room mic NAM Profiles by @arkraieski Β· TONE3000 Check out arkraieski's neural full rig / combo capture for guitar, bass and recording: There's nothing special about this room except to me, but I wanted to capture it with my condenser while I'm stil...

I did another open capture pack of my guitar amp, this time with a Lewitt condenser mic and the DSL "classic gain" channel. Even though NAM can't learn room reverb, I've still seen others use a room mic and get cool results

#guitar #musiciansky #rigcaptures

www.tone3000.com/tones/marsha...

13.02.2026 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Electra One Feels Like the Future of MIDI Control: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY8W...

12.02.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

tried to do an 808 boosted version of this, but I consistently kept getting "inconsistent tone" errors. Not sure what I was doing wrong tbh

12.02.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marshall DSL5CR Preamp Only NAM Profiles by @arkraieski Β· TONE3000 Check out arkraieski's neural amp head capture for guitar, bass and recording: This is the preamp tone of my Marshall DSL5CR combo captured from the FX loop. You can use this directly with an IR or pu...

I did some preamp-only captures of my amp. Check it out on T3k!

#guitar #amps #neuralampmodeler #t3k

www.tone3000.com/tones/marsha...

12.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tubes and Code .studio | Beef up your Combo Amp with NAM Power Amp Models Combo amps aren’t limited. Add NAM power amp modeling to your FX loop + IR setup for true modular tone.

Guitarists, did you know there's a way to try out what different (more powerful) power amps would sound like with your combo amp?

If you record your preamp-only tone from your FX loop, you can add in a power amp NAM capture for a more amp-like sound.

#guitar

tubesandcode.studio/posts/beef-u...

12.02.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

how little are we talking? I have a 5 watt Marshall I love (DSL5CR), but that still might be physically bigger than you are looking for.

For a portable practice solution I use Neural Amp Modeler to capture my amp + drive pedals, and I load these models on my Sonicake Ampcube or a pedal

12.02.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Instagram New Rules 2026: What Creators Must Know Instagram’s new rules are changing reach in 2026. Learn how recommendations, Reels, originality, and keywords impact creator visibility.

Instagram’s NEW rules for creators in 2026 will change how content gets seen and paid. Want to stay ahead and master the new algorithm game? Discover the key updates now:
www.audiartist.com/i...

#CreatorTips

12.02.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tubes and Code .studio | Gear is Data; Data is Gear Does modeling threaten the amp industry, or do we need amps more than ever to train models on them? A look at our changing relationship with gear and utility

As I've been dabbling more and more in NAM, I'm really starting to see that amps, mics, guitar pedals, etc. now have additional value for the models you can make with them

different players will still want tubes even with various digital options around

article πŸ‘‡
tubesandcode.studio/posts/gear-i...

12.02.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So I guess the TLDR on my board rn is that I can now fit a nice fuzz or a nice delay but not really both! I guess I'll see what happens. But I kind of used up all the slack in my board viewing it as a modular/adaptable system before I got rid of stuff no longer meeting any real need for me

11.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just took two pedals off my pedalboard, and it actually feels pretty good.

Got rid of my ML-2 distortion and a cheap delay that didn't have enough headroom to use in my FX loop. For now, I think I'm actually suppressing GAS... I can record with delay in my DAW if I want/need to

#guitarpedals

11.02.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't want to name the specific brand, but I saw an instrument maker's website crash from Super Bowl exposure. Seems like aggressive caching could have helped a lot since they were already on Cloudflare (that's the part that struck me as weird)

Classic last mile problems

10.02.2026 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually pretty happy with the high-gain pack I ended up with here! I captured my rig with various OD settings and mic placements.

gonna do cleans sometime and a version with room mic

NAM is really awesome tech

08.02.2026 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reopen the Club EP, by rthmHax 4 track album

For #bandcampfriday, I want to share my experimental edm EP from a few years back!

Minimal production almost entirely in the Tidalcycles music coding environment. Had lots of fun exploring sounds and rhythms

#musiciansky #livecoding #algorave #creativecoding

rthmhax.bandcamp.com/album/reopen...

06.02.2026 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reject Spotify.
Reject a "feed."

Corporate art isn't real art. it's risk management.
Music is not just important, it's essential to a functioning society.
Don't leave your selection to perverse incentives of platforms.

#indiemusic #bandcampfriday #musicsky 4/5

06.02.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Confirmed I was underdriving the amp by not setting my reamp box hot enough πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

I think it sounds sick now that I uploaded a fixed model!

06.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I might not have had the level high enough on the reamp box. It doesn't feel as lively as my actual amp or other models I've used tbh

Gonna have to keep experimenting

06.02.2026 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Uploaded my first two NAM models! I captured my amp (Marshall DSL5CR) boosted by a TS-808 style circuit with a couple different mic positions

feedback is more than welcome

I might have cut a little too much bass trying to get rid of flub in the room

www.tone3000.com/tones/marsha...

#guitarpedals

06.02.2026 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

maybe it's partly just nostalgia, but a lot of songs off the album Death Magnetic (Metallica) are wicked fun to play on guitar

#guitar #metal #metalguitar

06.02.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mix Challenge - Official Homepage A friendly audio community with monthly recurring challenges for novice to professional musicians and audio engineers alike.

Please share: The #MixChallenge can not continue without your help. We need new audio material to mix.

Get in touch – bit.ly/2RzvY67

01.02.2026 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TONE3000 confirmed some pricing details to me. $229.99 MAP

seems pretty attractive there tbh

updated my article with the quotes and pricing info they provided

01.02.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I didn't anticipate Fender 150XL extra light guitar strings being in the Epstein files yet here we are

31.01.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Strudel REPL Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.

Strudel is a really cool way to make music with live coding! It is based on Tidalcycles, but you can try it in your browser without anything to install

It's super fun to keep learning new functions to keep modifying your sound

#creativecoding #musiciansky

strudel.cc

01.02.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brrrr it's like 0 degrees out this morning and my humidifier is losing the battle to keep my office stable πŸ₯Ά

01.02.2026 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think there are any full reviews yet... it comes out in March. I guess people probably played it at their booth at the show but I wasn't there.

I'll review it if/when I get one! looks really good on paper at least

01.02.2026 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tubes and Code .studio | NAMM 2026: Blackstar Calls out Tone Blackstar's recently announced Beam Mini shows the strength of Neural Amp Modeler even as other brands continue to lean into proprietary digital tech.

I was never going to be the target buyer for the Quad Cortex Mini, but I think this amp from Blackstar is actually the coolest thing announced at/around NAMM 2026

Native support for Neural Amp Modeler! And signature Blackstar tones too

tubesandcode.studio/posts/namm-2...

#guitar #musiciansky

01.02.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Tubes and Code .studio | Microphones and Guitars are Political Communications Technologies. Let's use them! How music organizes people against authoritarianism, drawing on political science, protest history, and case studies from the USSR, Brazil, and beyond.

Said article, in case anyone finds this topic interesting:

tubesandcode.studio/posts/microp...

31.01.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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