Episodes

Jan. 24, 2022

Machine Music w/ Author & Punisher

Time to get NERDY. Tristan Shone is the dude behind the one-man industrial doom act called Author & Punisher. He builds all of his own machines to create MASSIVE sounds that are absolutely unlike anything else. It is genuine…
Jan. 17, 2022

Mixing Heavy Guitars (and other stuff) w/ Scott of Kowloon Walled City

Scott is a recording engineer, guitarist, and generally brilliant dude. We talk about his origin story, gear overlap in different mediums, refining your techniques, trying stuff, the appropriate time to learn things and a wh…
Jan. 10, 2022

Pedals & Cartoons w/ Bram Johnson

How does someone integrate cartoons into pedal demos? Well, my dude Bram has it figured out. He is making some of the most unique and coolest content in the gear world. We had a really epic conversation that spanned from spl…
Jan. 3, 2022

"..we played Maynard Keenan's 50th Birthday" (Ken Andrews of Failure)

We are starting this year off with a BANG! Today I am talking with Ken Andrews from the band Failure. We dive into the rather unique way they recorded their latest release "Wild Type Droid", how a band can play around each o…
Dec. 27, 2021

Call Me Whatever As Long As You Call Me w/ Nick Diener of Oneder Effects & The Swellers

Pro wrestlers with fuzz pedals, touring the world, recording bands, accidentally becoming a pedal company, how working at a gear company doesn't mean you get to play guitar, and a whole lot more. Nick is a great dude, and th…
Dec. 20, 2021

Would Modern Tech Ruin The Beatles? w/ Scott Mellinger of ZAO

Scott Mellinger is a guitarist in the band ZAO. I have been a big fan for a very long time, so this was a really big treat for me! We talk in depth about the "Get Back" documentary, their "Ship of Theseus" situation with the…
Dec. 13, 2021

Put It Out There! w/ Megan Lippi

Megan Lippi is this week's guest on the show! Megan is a guitar player and animation student who is just KILLING it on YouTube with her pedal demos. Her unique spin on content coupled with her tasteful playing style is earni…
Dec. 6, 2021

DOES IT DOOM? w/ Steve Reis

Steve Reis is the head dude behind the popular YouTube channel Does It Doom? He has zeroed in on a growing, but wildly underserved niche in the gear world. We talk about how he zeroed in on the content for his channel, the h…
Nov. 29, 2021

The Kauer of Love w/ Doug Kauer

Doug Kauer of Kauer is back!!!! It has been way way way overdue. I am super stoked to get Doug back on the show. On this one we talk about how his business has changed over the years, and how Kauer Guitars navigated the shut…
Nov. 22, 2021

Cooking Up Some Tone w/ Chef Brian Tsao

There is a first time for everything! Today I'm talking to Chef Brian Tsao about his career in the culinary industry, touring musically around China, the overlaps that the music industry has with the restaurant industry, his…
Nov. 15, 2021

The Gear Business w/ Scott from Stringjoy

Starting a pedal (or any other kind of guitar gear) company this day and age can be a very daunting. Scott Marquart has taken on one of the most difficult product categories in the industry and has seen great success with th…
Nov. 8, 2021

The Gristleman Arrives!!! (Greg Koch)

Greg Koch has been a force in the guitar world for decades. He has toured all over the world, made a whole variety of different albums, and is one of the original guitar "content creators". The dude is a wealth of knowledge,…
Nov. 1, 2021

Is Soundproofing Real? w/ Scott Hamilton

On this episode, we actually get some real knowledge dropped on us! Scott is an acoustic engineer and podcaster with a deep knowledge of how sound actually functions in the real world. We dive deep into some high level solut…
Oct. 25, 2021

Physical Health, Mental Health, & Mixing (Kevin Dye of Gates)

This is a big one! Kevin Dye from Gates came on the podcast to discuss music creation, self employment, exercise, mental health, mixing and a whole lot more. We seriously went all over the place with this one, there is somet…
Oct. 18, 2021

John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday

We have John from Taking Back Sunday on the show this week. We go over his musical back story briefly, along with his gear journey that he took along the way. We also talk about song writing approaches, studio vs road gear, …
Oct. 11, 2021

Eruption: Conversations w/ Eddie Van Halen (Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill)

Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill have been in the guitar media world for decades. Through that, these fellas have had many, many epic conversations with some of the most influential guitarists to ever walk the planet. They had t…
Oct. 4, 2021

KING BUZZO OF THE MELVINS

If you had told me when I started this podcast that I would be sitting down with Buzz Osborne to talk about guitar pedals I would have said you were crazy. But fast forward to today, and that is exactly what is happening! We…
Sept. 27, 2021

Tweaking the Klon? w/ John Snyder of Electronic Audio Experiments

Do magic diodes exist? Are bucket brigade chips analog? What is the deal with the clipping circuit in the Klon Centaur? John and I get into all of this and more on this very rad episode of the podcast. John Snyder is the mai…
Sept. 21, 2021

Thieves Suck But Kaonashi Doesn't (Alex Hallquist)

Alex Hallquist is this week's guest. He is a guitarist in the band Kaonashi and we had a great conversation. We talked about his inspirations, pedalboard, how the band goes about touring, and one SUPER CREEPY GUY IN FLORIDA.…
Sept. 13, 2021

Morgothbeatz (Micheal Montoya)

Michael Montoya has had a very interesting career in music. He first cut his teeth as a guitarist in the metal scene with his band Winds Of Plague. Along the way he started creating music as a producer and has made music wit…
Sept. 6, 2021

Punk In The Streets w/ Jake Haydn of Glitchers

On this week's podcast I am speaking with Jake Haydn, the guitarist and frontman for the two-piece punk group Glitchers. Like many people, I first became aware of them through the interwebz. Viral videos of their wild street…
Aug. 30, 2021

Kemper vs Axe-Fx w/ Misha Mansoor of Periphery

Misha Mansoor is here! He is well known as a driving force behind the band Periphery, Horizon Devices, Get Good Drums, Bulb and a whole lot more! I was super stoked to talk with him and I think you are really going to enjoy …
Aug. 23, 2021

Why Do You Play Guitar In The First Place? (w/ Dylan McKerchie)

Dylan McKerchie has been producing guitar content for a quite some time. Even longer than myself! He has a YouTube channel where he talks about making pickups along with many other things related to the guitar world. He is a…
Aug. 16, 2021

August Axcelson of Kaonashi

Here is another hot one! August is a bassist/guitarist who is currently playing bass in emo-mathcore rippers Kaonashi. He is a great dude, and we had a fantastic chat about his journey in the music industry, his current bass…