Hey,
Last time I told you what we are building with Guitar Earo.
Today I want to show you what you will actually be listening to.
The first 14 voices in the collection
We are starting with a small but very opinionated set of guitars: the ones that show you completely different “tone archetypes”:
Fender Telecaster: the brutally honest working guitar. Bright, cutting, straight to the point.
Fender Stratocaster: the contoured chameleon, with a glassy tone, bridge bite, and that in-between “quack”.
Gibson Les Paul: maple-on-mahogany “sandwich” with weight, sustain, and natural compression.
Gibson SG: lighter, angrier, more immediate than a Les Paul.
ES-335 & ES-125 (semi-hollow vs hollow): air, bloom, and how the low end loosens up.
White Falcon & Rickenbacker 330: two very different flavours of “big, bright, and bold”.
Jaguar & Mustang: offset weirdos with short scale snap and their own definition of “spank”.
Superstrat (Jackson Soloist): modern, precise, built to stay clear when gain is crazy high.
Fourteen guitars that don’t just look different on a wall: they behave differently under your fingers and in your ears.
How you will hear them inside Guitar Earo
Every one of these is recorded as a clean direct input performance first:
Same player
Same licks
Same signal chain
From that one DI fingerprint, the app lets you flip between:
Pure DI: the naked personality of the guitar
Genre-matched amps: the same take pushed through tones that actually fit (blues, rock, jazz, metal, etc)
So when you A/B a Tele vs a Les Paul vs a 335, you are not comparing different performances, rooms, or amp compression.
You are comparing the instruments themselves in different musical contexts.
What early testers are saying
People who have heard the early builds keep saying some version of:
The A/B testing inside Guitar Earo is wild. Switching between guitars instantly makes the differences pop out. I’ve never heard tone this clearly.
And that’s exactly the point.
In the real world, by the time you:
put one guitar down,
unplug it,
grab the other one,
plug it in,
and start playing…
…the sound of the first guitar is already gone from memory.
You think you are comparing tones, but you are really comparing vibes, assumptions, and whatever your brain filled in the gaps with.
Guitar Earo fixes that by letting you compare guitars instantly: one tap, same performance, same conditions.
So your ear can finally hear what’s actually different.
Want to help us shape this collection?
Right now this is still private: no App Store link, and no public launch.
If you’d like a shot at early access to this 14-guitar collection while we are still tweaking it, fill the form below:
I’ll pick a small batch from this list for the next round of testers.
Save the Sound,
The Guitar Earo team
