Chapter 36: How to Shape Your Perfect Electronic Guitar Tone

You've mastered the physical controls on your guitar, and you're creating a great raw sound right from the source. Now, it's time to plug it in.

We're going to take that raw sound and learn how to sculpt it into a finished, professional product. This is your signal chain—the path your sound travels from the guitar to the speaker. Every piece of gear in that path is another tool we can use.

It's easy to just twist knobs randomly and hope for the best, but it's way more effective to have a system. This chapter will give you the blueprint for the 14 essential electronic tools that will form your complete signal chain.

14 Electronic Tools → A Complete Signal Chain → Total Tonal Control