Accessories

It’s More Than A Feeling

By Scott Ulrichs

Six months and 40-plus hours in, SonoTone Vintage 10s continue to impress with exceptional feel, sustain, and quick break-in — a highly recommended string for players chasing their own sound.

The Siren Speaker Cable & Source AC Power Cable

By Riverhorse

Evidence Audio's Siren Speaker Cable and Source AC Power Cable bring Tony Farinella's single-strand, low-distortion design philosophy to bear on power and speaker connections, with audibly cleaner tone, improved sustain, and enhanced harmonic complexity. TQR puts both cables to the test and gets the technical breakdown straight from the maker.

Amp Maniac

By Riverhorse

Just Tell It Like It Is

By Riverhorse

John Grammatico’s pursuit of sound has taken him from high-end audio and amplifier building to a place few guitarists think to look—the power cable. Here, John traces the listening, experimentation and small refinements that led to four Sonorus cables, each voiced around different eras of Fender, Marshall and Dumble-inspired tone. Riverhorse then puts them to work with familiar amps, guitars and a stock IEC cable for comparison, discovering audible differences in body, warmth, clarity, response and gain that challenge assumptions about where tone begins.

Impossible To Unhear

By Matt McCulloch

Matt McCulloch approached John Grammatico’s power cables with the ears of a longtime player and a healthy dose of skepticism. His experience with amps mirrored Riverhorse’s, but the real question was what could happen at the pedalboard. Drawing on years of listening to high-end audio and familiar guitar rigs, Matt puts the cables where subtle changes are easy to recognize. What he hears in clarity, dimension, dynamics and the way individual pedals reveal themselves turns an unlikely piece of the signal chain into something impossible to ignore.

Evidence Audio’s Inspired Development Of The Forte Cable

By Riverhorse

Evidence Audio's Tony Farinella explains how the Forte cable delivers the same acclaimed sound as the Lyric HG — but with enamel-coated strands that make it far more flexible and road-ready. A field report and conversation covering why David Gilmour, Trey Anastasio, and Billy Corgan trust EA cables above all others.

Harmonically Round And Rich

By Scott Ulrichs

Larry Cragg's Hybrid Bridge Pins — combining Ebony for the bass strings and Water Buffalo Horn for the trebles — offer an affordable and immediately audible upgrade to acoustic guitar tone, improving balance, sustain, and projection.

Cole McBride’s Genius Designs

By Scott Ulrichs

Cole McBride, founder of Black Mountain Picks, talks about his journey from guitar teacher to inventor of spring-loaded thumbpicks, tungsten slide rings, roller-wheel volume pedals, and a revolutionary spring-embedded capo.

A Conversation With PK Pandey

By Scott Ulrichs

PK Pandey of SonoTone strings traces his winding journey from Guitar Center to boutique string-making, sharing how friendships with Joe Perry and Jeff Beck helped turn a personal obsession with tone into a beloved boutique brand.

Brace It, Don’t Break It

By Scott Ulrichs

Patrick Geraghty, inventor of the BrownBox Input Voltage Attenuator, discusses his latest creation: the Atlas C-1, a stainless steel brace designed to protect the vulnerable headstock-neck junction of stringed instruments during travel and shipping.

Gabriel Tenorio - the GTSco

By Riverhorse

Gabriel Tenorio hand-winds every string at his Los Angeles shop, GTSco, using NASA-grade pure nickel and round cores to produce strings that last for months or years and deliver tone unlike anything mass-produced. ToneQuest Report sits down with this East L.A. artisan to explore his path from Guadalupe Custom Strings to his own celebrated line.

Function Junction

By Scott Ulrichs

Grant Klassen, owner of Goodwood Audio, discusses the design philosophy behind the Interfacer and Underfacer junction boxes — ingenious tools that bring stereo routing, ground isolation, and rig flexibility to players who don't need a full switcher system.