Tone Lab
Suhr Badger 18 — settings card
Nine recipes, three sources — Suhr factory, Gear Page owners (Mk II), Guitar Chalk
Every recipe attributed to where it came from, with a sources section at the end. Read this before you touch a knob.
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Practice Tool · Phone
The Listen — Block 4 of 4
Count-in on 2 and 4, eight bars, one take, one listen, one sentence
The close block of the practice container, built for the phone at the amp. Sets the click on 2 and 4, counts you in, records exactly eight bars at your tempo and stops. You get one playback, eyes closed, then it is deleted. Then one sentence — it will not accept two. Tomorrow it opens on yesterday’s sentence as your first constraint card. Works offline, stores nothing off the phone.
offline
one take
2 & 4
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House Style
The ScottG Pack — Tone + Practice
BED · CORE · SING — full amp and pedal settings, the practice container, and corrections to the source files
The definitive house-style pack, built from the whole library. Three tones with every knob sourced to a named file, the four-block practice container, and a red-team section listing the invented controls and tab errors found in the newest sheets. Gain low, level high. Every setting sourced, every gap named.
3 tones
Badger 18 MkII
wet/dry
red-teamed
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Practice Library
Exercises & Downloads →
Every exercise, riff pack, backing track, MIDI & Guitar Pro tab in one place
The complete practice library behind the tones — interactive fretboard engines, fusion vocabulary & runs, chord studies, the full Renegade Destruction study, plus backing tracks, MIDI files and Guitar Pro tabs. All free to open or download.
55+ Items
MIDI + Guitar Pro
Free Download
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Tone Lab
Easy Chords Big Sound — Volume II
Same rules as Vol I — nothing hard, everything open, shared strings between every change. Different moods this time: darker, wider, weirder, and one that's just three chords and a bad attitude.
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Tone Lab
The Four Guitars — A Field Guide
Two Suhr S-types, a Suhr Modern, and a PRS Custom 24 — four instruments, four jobs. When to reach for which, why, and the secret sauce for getting the best out of each one through the wet/dry rig.
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Tone Lab
The Solo Five — ScottG ToneLab
Five expressive effect treatments in Michael Landau's voice. Complete settings — amp, drives, modulation, delay, reverb. Set the whole rig once per preset, kick the wet effects on for the solo, kick t
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Tone Lab
TONELAB 05 — A Minor Slow Blues
Six choruses, five and a half minutes, deliberately sparse. The backing gets out of the way and stays there — organ pad, root-heavy bass, brushed shuffle. Everything you don't play is the point.
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Tone Lab — New
Breakpoint — Clean to Scream
One amp setting • Guitar volume maps clean → scream • Bm voiced
A single tone that lives on the breakpoint — rolled back it’s glassy clean, dimed it screams. The volume knob is the whole pedalboard. Voiced for B minor lead work.
1 Preset
Volume = Gain
Bm
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Tone Lab — New
Night Watch — Low-Volume Leave-On
Bedroom volume • Set-and-forget • Power-scaled • Bm voiced
The tone you leave on all night. Power-scaled to whisper volume with real tube feel intact — never touch the amp, just play. The quiet companion to Breakpoint.
1 Preset
Night Volume
Leave-On
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Tone Lab — New
Tone Operations Manual
The whole approach • Signal chain logic • "Probably Fine" philosophy
The operating manual behind the presets — how the chain is wired, why each block sits where it does, and how to dial any of it from scratch. Read this once and the rest of the lab clicks.
Reference
Signal Chain
Method
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Tone Lab — New
Rig Patch Book — Badger / Mesa Wet-Dry
Suhr Badger • Mesa • Wet-dry rig • Patch-by-patch settings
The full patch book for the wet-dry rig — every knob, every routing decision, written out so you can rebuild it. Plus a low-power chime variant and a full-detail edition.
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Tone Lab — New
The Rig Bible — Complete
Every rig • Every chain • The master reference
The complete rig reference — every amp, pedal, routing and patch decision in one master document. If it’s in the locker, it’s in here.
Master Ref
Full Locker
Complete
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Tone Lab 01
Scott Henderson
Suhr Badger 30 • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Strat S
Five presets from glass clean to saturated screamer. Henderson drives the amp — minimal pedals, all gain from the EL34 power section. Volume knob is the primary gain control. Bass always low. Get the midrange from the guitar's tone knob.
5 Presets
Amp-Driven
FX Loop
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Tone Lab 02
Michael Landau
Suhr Badger 30 • Maxon SD-9 • Xotic AC+ • Fuzz Factory • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline
Five presets from session shimmer to Hendrix supernova. Landau keeps the amp surgically clean and does everything with pedals. SD-9 with tone almost off and level dimed. AC+ always on as a clean boost. The polar opposite of Henderson — same amp, completely different philosophy.
5 Presets
Pedal-Driven
SD-9 + Fuzz
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Tone Lab 03
ScottG's Optimum Rig
Suhr Classic S • ML Pickups • Badger 30 • Maxon SD-9 • Xotic AC+ • Fuzz Factory • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline
Henderson and Landau merged into one rig. Six presets from session clean to Hendrix psychedelic. Every setting optimised for ML Standard pickups. Full pedalboard with switching combinations — clean platform amp with pedals doing the work, or flip to Henderson mode for amp-driven gain.
6 Presets
Personal Rig
Full Board
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Tone Lab 05
Hendrix Rip
Suhr Badger 18 • EL84 / 5Y3GT Tube Rectifier • Xotic AC+ • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Classic S (ML)
Five Shades of Purple Haze. The Badger 18's EL84s and tube rectifier sag are the secret weapon — spongey, saggy, natural compression that blooms when you push it. From Little Wing clean to Star Spangled Cosmos full psychedelic. Henderson's amp gain meets Landau's effects meets Hendrix's controlled chaos.
5 Tones
Badger 18
Hendrix
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Tone Lab 06
Bank A — Night Session
Suhr Badger 18 (locked) • Power 3 / Drive 4 • Xotic AC+ • Strymon Mobius • Strymon Timeline • Suhr Classic S (ML)
Five definitive presets, one locked amp. The Badger 18 power-scaled to bedroom volume — you never touch the amp. All changes come from AC+ channel switching, Mobius and Timeline presets. Silk clean → Honey breakup → Torch crunch → Blaze lead → Fever Dream psychedelic. Set and forget.
5 Presets
Locked Amp
Bedroom
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Tone Lab 10
How Your Badger 18 Actually Works
Deep Dive • 5Y3GT Rectifier Sag • Power Scaling (London Power) • 3 Operating Modes • EL84 Cathode Bias • MOSFET Boost • Passive Tone Stack
The deep dive. Six tubes, three jobs. Why the 5Y3GT rectifier makes it breathe. Why Power Scaling beats attenuators. Why Drive must stay within 2 of Power. Why it sounds better at bedroom volume than most amps at full blast. Written for guitarists, not engineers.
Deep Dive
Badger 18
Power Scaling
5Y3GT Sag
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Tone Lab 15
Big Sky One Tone — Suhr Classic S
Suhr Classic S • ML Standard A5 Single Coils • Strymon Big Sky (Hall) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
Why the Classic S likes Hall reverb at medium decay. ML Standard single coils at 6.5K through alder give glassy, three-dimensional sound that wants a room around it. Hall mode, decay 2 sec, warm tone. The Big Sky adds dimension without smearing single-coil top end. Volume knob maps the full palette from glass to crunch.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Hall Reverb
Classic S
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Tone Lab 16
Big Sky One Tone — Suhr Modern HSH
Suhr Modern HSH • SSV / V60LP / SSH+ • Strymon Big Sky (Plate) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
The polar opposite of the Classic S. SSH+ bridge at ~12K with Alnico V pushes mids forward aggressively, basswood is darker and more compressed. Hall reverb would turn this into mush — this guitar needs faster, brighter Plate reverb with shorter decay. A slap of dimension behind hot legato lines, not a wash.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Plate Reverb
Modern HSH
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Tone Lab 17
Big Sky One Tone — PRS Custom 24
PRS Custom 24 • 59/09 Pickups (Alnico 2) • Strymon Big Sky (Spring) • Badger 18 • Mesa 5:25 • Wet/Dry
The easiest to dial reverb for and the trickiest to get wrong. 59/09 humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets give natural compression and blooming sustain. Mahogany body adds woody warmth. The Big Sky stays out of the way — Spring reverb, short, bright, almost not there. Anything more and you smother what makes the PRS a PRS.
1 Preset
Big Sky
Spring Reverb
PRS 59/09
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Tone Lab 28
Landau & Henderson — Renegade Destruction Key Landscape
Full key landscape • Every chord, every modulation • Neck-zone mapping • v2 manual-accurate
Key landscape map for the Renegade Destruction practice piece. Every chord, every key change, exactly where to be on the neck. Cross-referenced against both players' line vocabularies so you can choose your approach per section.
Practice
Renegade
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Tone Lab 31
Melody Improvement — Chord by Chord
Target tones per chord • Play-through vs land-on • Phrase construction • Scale-to-melody bridge
Chord-by-chord melody construction. Target tones per chord, when to play through changes vs land on them. The bridge from running scales to building actual phrases. The thing most practice guides skip.
Practice
Melody
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Tone Lab 42
Halvorson Etudes — Five Long Ones
Wide intervals • Angular lines • Sustained legato • Mary Halvorson idiom • TAB
Five long-form études in the Halvorson idiom — angular leaps, unexpected intervals, and lines that refuse to sit in a box. Written out in full TAB with tempos. Grow the ear and the reach at once.
Practice
Halvorson
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Tone Lab 45
Power-Chord Riffs — Thornicus Fuzz
Power chords • Riff pack • Fuzz • Palm-mute grooves • TAB
A pack of power-chord riffs built for a fat fuzz — palm-muted grooves, movable shapes and hooks that land with the gain up. Full TAB, ready to steal.
Riffs
Fuzz
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Tone Lab 49
Beautiful Voicings — Strum & Comp (Alt Take)
Lush open shapes • I–vi–IV–V • Chambered clean • Straight 8ths • TAB
A leaner take on the beautiful-voicings idea — a palette of lush, open shapes that ring on a chambered clean tone. I–vi–IV–V all dressed up: strum softly in straight 8ths and let the barely-moving top strings glue it together.
Comping
Voicings
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Tone Lab 51
Hendrix Vocabulary — Runs
Hendrix-style runs • Thumb-over • Pentatonic + chromatic • R&B phrasing • TAB
The signature run vocabulary: those fluid, thumb-over pentatonic-and-chromatic lines that connect chord shapes the Hendrix way. Full TAB, broken down phrase by phrase so you can steal the moves and make them your own.
Vocab
Blues
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