New tool to match any guitar tone to your gear

ToneMirror — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:07:43 +0000

Every guitarist has done this: you learn the notes to a song, play it back, and it still doesn't sound like the record. The tab was right. The tone was wrong.

The usual fix is a YouTube tutorial or a forum thread — except those give you settings for someone else's rig. A JCM800 breaks up nowhere near where a Twin does. A bridge humbucker hits the front end differently than a single coil. Copy the knob positions from a video and you get a rough approximation at best.

So we built ToneMirror.

You add your guitar, amp, and pedals once. Then you pick a song, and it gives you a full recipe adapted to what you actually own:

Amp settings — knob-by-knob, calibrated to your amp's headroom and EQ taper
Pickup position — bridge, neck, in between
Pedal config — which to engage, in what order, at what settings. Don't own the same overdrive? It maps to the closest thing on your board
Technique notes — pick attack, palm muting, where on the string to play
Match confidence — an honest score for how close your gear can realistically get

The library currently has thousands of songs across rock, metal, blues, indie, country, funk, and jazz.

Part of it is open source — repo here:

→ github.com/tonemirror/ToneMirror

If you've got a rig that trips it up, an amp model that's missing, or a tone you want added, that's what the discussions board is for:

→ Discussions

Genuinely curious what breaks. Especially interested in hearing from anyone running modelers or unusual pickup configs.

DEV Community: ToneMirror

Insane tool!!

New tool to match any guitar tone to your gear

New tool to match any guitar tone to your gear