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Most guitarists chase tone by collecting more gear.
The masters with great tone do something different.
They train their tone ears.
We have been quietly building a tool for that.
It’s called Guitar Earo, and at the center of it is a simple, powerful, three-part system:
Deck → Library → Arcade
Learn it. Hear it. Master it.
Here’s how each piece works together to transform the way you hear guitar tone.
1. Deck: “Learn the science of tone”
Deck is where your Tone Training begins.
It’s a spaced-repetition learning system designed specifically for guitar tone: not music theory, not generic ear training, but the real voice of electric guitars:
Neck vs. <a href="hardtail-vs-tremolo-does-the-bridge">bridge</a> pickup
Strat vs. Les Paul
Vintage vs. modern
Wood, construction, and pickup character
Subtle tonal fingerprints you used to feel but couldn’t name
Each card delivers short explanations and standardised audio clips recorded under identical conditions. Our system notices what you struggle with and brings those concepts back until your brain rewires.
Ten minutes a day.
And suddenly you hear details you’ve missed for years.
2. Library: “Your virtual guitar showroom”
Once you understand the concepts, you need to hear them across real instruments.
Library is a curated, ever-growing collection of meticulously recorded guitars. You can:
Browse by make, model, pickup position, and era
Instantly A/B guitars with consistent samples
Explore tone without the usual recording, amp, or playing variables
It’s like walking into a high-end guitar shop where every guitar is mic’d, leveled, and played identically so your ear can truly learn.
Soon you’ll find yourself saying:
“That’s a Tele bridge bite,”
“That’s a vintage-voiced neck humbucker,”
or “That’s clearly a Strat middle-position quack.”Not because you saw it, but because you heard it.
3. Arcade: “Turn your ears into a game”
This is where the training becomes addictive.
Arcade is a blind-listening challenge built directly on top of what you learned:
Hear a sample
Guess the guitar make, model, or pickup position
Progress through increasing difficulty
Unlock levels, streaks, and performance stats
Compete on leaderboards
We even include “uncharacteristic” recordings, like a Tele doing jazz, or a ES-125 doing metal, to force your ear to recognise tone, not stereotypes.
This is where people realise:
I’m actually getting good at this.Why this works
The system reinforces itself:
Deck builds the knowledge
Library gives you real-world examples
Arcade pressure-tests your ears and locks the learning in
Early testers are already telling us they can’t listen to guitars the same way anymore.
Want early access?
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 system while we are still tweaking it, fill the form below:
We have a few spots left in our testing programme.
Save the sound,
The Guitar Earo Team
P.S. In an upcoming email, we’ll share how we record and standardise every guitar so your ear always compares apples to apples.
