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Rig Roast — Fifteen voices, one pedalboard
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Fifteen voices. One pedalboard. Zero mercy.

The most opinionated minds in guitar, on call for your pedalboard. Real gear knowledge pointed at your chain.

By Suede Social
Fender Road Worn Telecaster: press vs forum. What the glowing sample missed.
Gear TakesBy Jason Colapietro
Best and worst pedals on the planet. The list with revision notes and arguments.
The Suede 100By Suede Labs AI
Public gear pages: guitar, pedals, amp, tuning, and the chain that makes it make sense.
Rig CardsBy Community
The Internet Has Thoughts · Rig Roast

Fifteen voices. One pedalboard. Zero mercy.

The most opinionated minds in guitar, on call for your pedalboard. Real gear knowledge pointed at your chain: funny, specific, and built to share.

  • Josh Scott - The pedal historianJosh ScottThe pedal historian
  • Rhett Shull - What's really going onRhett ShullWhat's really going on
  • Pete Thorn - Session pragmatismPete ThornSession pragmatism
  • Henning Pauly - The scientistHenning PaulyThe scientist
  • Rabea Massaad - High-gain joyrideRabea MassaadHigh-gain joyride
  • Mary Spender - The songwriter's lensMary SpenderThe songwriter's lens
  • Tim Henson - Polyphia precisionTim HensonPolyphia precision
  • Nita Strauss - Arena shredderNita StraussArena shredder
  • The Andertons Captain - The Captain's reviewThe Andertons CaptainThe Captain's review
  • Tom Quayle - Jazz-fusion lensTom QuayleJazz-fusion lens
  • The TGP Curmudgeon archetype illustration - Boomer with opinionsThe TGP CurmudgeonBoomer with opinions
  • The Boutique Snob archetype illustration - No mass-producedThe Boutique SnobNo mass-produced
  • The Reverb Listing Hawk archetype illustration - Always flippingThe Reverb Listing HawkAlways flipping
  • The Modeler Evangelist archetype illustration - Just buy a Quad CortexThe Modeler EvangelistJust buy a Quad Cortex
  • The Vintage Purist archetype illustration - Pre-CBS onlyThe Vintage PuristPre-CBS only
A Tube Screamer into a modeler? Son — I had that exact pedal in 1979. Except mine ran into a real Bassman and never once asked for a firmware update.
By The TGP Curmudgeon

Walk away with share cards in three sizes: feed, square, and story.

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AI impressions, not the real people.

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The Internet Has Thoughts.

What the press wouldn’t print. Honest as a forum, legible as a magazine, loud as a comments section.

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Premier GuitarMay 20

The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's Revv Amps Dirtdog Review.

Premier Guitar called it a Princeton in a box. Buyers called it something woolier.

Guitar PlayerMay 20

The Internet Has Thoughts About Guitar Player's Supro Airwave Review.

Guitar Player loved the Two Notes integration. YouTube asked about the effects loop.

Premier GuitarMay 20

The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's EHX Bass Big Muff Pi 2 Review.

Premier Guitar said your guitarist will be jealous. The forum had already moved on.

Gear takes, edited and signed.

Hot takes on the boxes worth keeping and the boxes worth selling, written by people with strong opinions and actual boards.

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Cover story8 min read · Jun 17

Fender Is Right.

The most copied guitar company in history is not winning by nostalgia. It is winning because the original decisions still solve real problems.

Words by
Jason Colapietro
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Telecaster-style guitar body and pickups in macro detail
Hot takes · 10 min read

The four amps every working guitarist should know intimately.

Not own. Know. There's a difference. These four cover 90 percent of what walks into a gig.

By Jason Colapietro·May 29
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Fender Jazzmaster offset headstock in close-up
Hot takes · 7 min read

The case for never owning a guitar wireless system.

I've tried six. They were all worse than a cable. Here's why I think they always will be.

By Jason Colapietro·May 28
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Surf-green Stratocaster-style guitar body
Hot takes · 9 min read

What to look for in a used Twin Reverb.

There are about four good ones for every fifteen on Reverb. Here's how to tell them apart.

By Jason Colapietro·May 27
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Offset-style electric guitar in dramatic black-and-white
Hot takes · 8 min read

I've changed my mind about TS-style overdrives.

I called them mid-humped, boring, and overrated. I've been wrong for about a decade.

By Jason Colapietro·May 26
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Active rig profiles.

Recently updated public rigs, with player portraits, gear, tuning, and pedal count.

All rigs

Live forum threads.

Gear-first questions, rig diaries, and arguments tied to real profiles.

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Fight About This: Boss MT-2 Metal Zone (Suede 100 #100, 2026)

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Discussion: Fender Is Right.

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Fight About This: Roland RE-201 Space Echo (Suede 100 #21, 2026)

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Five ways into the catalog.

Pedals, recipes, tunings: the rig tools, via Suede Studio Guitar
The archive

Every piece we’ve written.

Hot takes, buyer’s guides, reversals, and the occasional half-finished thought. Filterable by author.

All articlesBrowse the archive
The 100 list

Best and worst pedals, ranked.

Canon picks, glorious mistakes, middle-row debates, and the revision notes that make the list worth arguing with.

Suede 100Open the list
Fender feature

Road Worn Tele: press vs forum.

MusicRadar called it beautiful. The forum had sharper notes on relic jobs, batch variance, and buyer reality.

Internet ThoughtsRead the Fender piece
The catalog

Pedals we have a position on.

Editorial entries with verdicts, tone notes, famous users, and cross-links to articles and recipes.

Pedal catalogOpen the catalog
The kitchen

Famous tones, with the recipe.

Real signal chains that recreate specific famous sounds: the gear, the settings, the secret sauce.

Tone recipesSee the recipes

Suede DNA: tonal genealogy.

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Signal chains, archived.

The rigs that made the records. Each guitarist's chain of documented setups, treated as a tonal genealogy stretched across time, sourced from the Guitar Geek archives.

Rigs
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rigs
Artists
390
artists
Year range
1964–2014
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Jump straight into the real surfaces: the Suede 100 list, the Fender thought piece, forum threads, public rig cards, Rig Roast, and tone recipes.

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Suede 100 · Best and worst

The 100 list: best and worst pedals.

Open the ranked Suede 100 edition: canon picks, disasters, middle rows, revision notes, and fights worth having.

Open the 100 list
Fender feature
Feature story · Fender

Fender Is Right: useful defaults, Fender defense, Suede verdict.

Cal Rook, Marty Blackguard, and Jason argue whether common gear can still be the most useful gear.

Read the Fender feature
Forum threads
Forum · Tone Talk · Rig Diaries

The Forum: searchable, signal-anchored, no algorithm.

Ask the room what fuzz to pair with a Princeton. Post a Rig Diary entry the moment you find your tone.

Open the forum
Rig cards
Your gear, on the page

Rig Cards: a living signal chain.

Browse public gear pages with guitar, pedals, amp, strings, tuning, quotes, and the player context that makes the chain make sense.

Browse rig cards
Rig Roast
Rig Roast · Featured voices

Read recent roasts before you submit yours.

The playable roast archive: voices, submission cards, share paths, and the fastest way to understand the feature.

Open roasts
Tone recipes
Find your room

Tone Recipes: load a famous rig as a starting point.

Open the recipe kitchen: famous signal chains, settings, player notes, and the secret sauce behind the sound.

Open tone recipes

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