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The Tone Mob Podcast

Blake Wyland & Sound Talent Media

The year was 2015. Show host Blake Wyland intended to start a podcast where he took a deep dive with his guests from the guitar world to explain their rigs. What happened was that, but also a whole lot more. The show quickly evolved into discussions about people"s lives. Guitars, pedals, amps, etc. are the central hub of the show, but it really is more about the PEOPLE behind all of it. Both the musicians who use the gear, and the folks that create these magical tools of expression. You can expect

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All Episodes

67:38

Emily Wolfe Almost Quit… Then Her Phone Went Off

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2026/10/26

Emily Wolfe was riding home from a brutal tour, looking up what she could get for her gear on Reverb, and seriously considering calling it quits. Then a text came through that helped change everything.One of my favorite artists (and guests) returns to the show for an incredibly honest conversation about the realities of making music for a living. Emily shares how connecting with producer Gavin Brown helped her rediscover her excitement for songwriting, learn to accept some help, and find a new

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67:33

“My Job Is Guitar” with Emily Harris of Get Offset

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2026/10/19

When somebody asks what you do for a living, sometimes the easiest answer is simply... “guitar.”This week, Emily Harris of Get Offset returns for a long overdue catch-up! We dig into her journey from podcasting to gear demos, the changing landscape of guitar YouTube, and how she’s pieced together a career around the stuff she loves. Along the way, Emily explains how French pastry videos inspired her guitar interview series and why enjoying the process matters when the algorithm decides to ignore

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74:43

When Did 2001 Become Vintage? w/ Phillip Carter of 40...

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2026/10/13

My buddy Philip Carter from the 40 Watt Podcast is back, and this one started the way a lot of our conversations do... We were talking about guitars before hitting record and eventually realized we should probably be recording this nonsense.It all starts with a surprisingly complicated question: What actually makes a guitar vintage? Is it age? Rarity? Desirability? Or have we all just gotten old enough that the stuff we grew up with is suddenly considered collectible? Philip and I dig into the

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75:47

Get Off Your Phone and Play Guitar w/ Shelby Pollard...

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2026/10/06

Shelby Pollard of Black Bobbin is back on the show, and apparently we had some things to work through.This conversation starts with burnout, work/life balance, phone addiction, and the strange exhaustion that comes from being constantly connected. From there, Blake and Shelby wander into the attention economy, social media’s ability to make everyone else’s life look suspiciously perfect, and why it can be so difficult to simply be happy when somebody else is succeeding. Eventually, they even talk

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61:29

“Don’t Get a Job.” w/ Zoe Jet of Zoe Jet Guitars

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2026/09/29

Zoe’s path into guitar building is a pretty fascinating one. She grew up surrounded by artists, started out as a drummer, dove deep into piano and composition, and at one point thought she might pursue film scoring. Eventually, though, she realized she missed actually making physical things with her hands.A random guitar-building job listing sent her down the rabbit hole, which eventually led to an apprenticeship with Barry Grzebik of Grez Guitars and a job at LMI. From there, she spent years

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65:31

Fugazi on a Six-Figure Martin w/ Jason Verlinde

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2026/09/21

My buddy Jason Verlinde of The Fretboard Journal is back on the show, and this time we’re fresh off the Fretboard Summit in Chicago.I finally made it to the Summit this year, so Jason and I dig into what actually goes into putting on an event like this, why it feels so different from a traditional guitar show, and how they’ve managed to create something that feels less like a convention and more like a gigantic gathering of guitar nerds who actually want to hang out with each other. We talk

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83:17

Repair, Don’t Replace w/ Jeff Leavitt (Tone Ranger) &...

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2026/09/14

On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Jeff Leavitt of Tone Ranger Guitars and Ben Matin of RestoWraps, two guys who have gone impressively deep into the worlds of guitar building, vintage gear restoration, and keeping perfectly good stuff out of the landfill.Jeff builds Western-inspired guitars using locally sourced urban lumber from Los Angeles, turning trees that might otherwise have been discarded into instruments with a story. Ben approaches vintage amp and cabinet

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63:25

How to Actually Make It in Music w/ Liz The Music...

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2026/09/07

Liz Kamlet, better known online as Liz The Music Manager, has spent most of her life somewhere behind the curtain of the music business. She started shooting tour photography as a teenager, worked around artists like James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Kenny Loggins, somehow became the person Guitar Center called when a famous musician wanted to buy a vintage guitar, and eventually found herself managing artists, running tours and helping musicians navigate an increasingly strange industry.On this

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61:58

Why Isn’t This on Every Guitar? w/ NVision Guitars

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2026/08/31

What if, instead of asking a musician to adapt to their guitar, you built the guitar to adapt to the musician?On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Renee and Tristan from NVision Guitars, a mother-and-son team building some seriously cool instruments with an even cooler purpose behind them. NVision makes handcrafted guitars for players who may face physical or visual barriers with a traditional instrument. That includes their sensory navigation system, which uses tactile

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68:00

Dylan McKerchie Cut a Harley Benton in Half (But Why?)

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2026/08/24

It has been way too long since Dylan McKerchie of Dylan Talks Tone has been on the show, and quite a bit has changed since our last conversation. Dylan has a home base, his daughter is working full time winding pickups with him, the business is cranking, and somehow he is producing an absolutely unreasonable amount of guitar content every week.We get into what happens when the thing you love also becomes your job, finding some kind of work/life balance when your shop is approximately 15 feet from

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69:13

Building the Next Chapter w/ Randy King of King...

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2026/08/17

This week I’m hanging out with Randy King of King Electric Guitars, and what starts as a conversation about old cars takes approximately four minutes to wander off the road and into something much bigger.Randy has been obsessed with making things for most of his life. He bought his first car at ten years old, spent his youth tearing into old hot rods, served in the Air Force, played music, and eventually found himself building guitars. Now, at 53, King Electric Guitars is beginning to turn from an

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65:26

Zao Is Getting Sludgier With Age (Scott Mellinger)

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2026/08/11

Scott Mellinger of Zao returns to The Tone Mob for a long-overdue hang, and apparently age comes for us all in different ways. Some people take up golf. Zao seems to be getting slower, heavier, and sludgier.Scott digs into Pillars, Zao’s new collection paying tribute to the overlooked bands from their local scene that helped create the blueprint for what they eventually became. That leads into the strange history of early metalcore, bands that arrived a decade too soon, and the peculiar experience

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66:06

How Frank Gross Built Thunder Road Guitars One Guitar...

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2026/08/04

This week on The Tone Mob, Blake sits down with Frank Gross, founder of Thunder Road Guitars Seattle, for a conversation about music, retail, risk, reinvention, and the strange magic of simply refusing to disappear.Frank tells the story of leaving the band life behind, moving back to Seattle, and slowly turning Craigslist flips, pawn shop finds, and a tiny workspace into one of the most respected guitar shops on the West Coast. We dig into the early days of Thunder Road, the importance of

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81:03

Emerald City Guitars: Trevor Boone and the Art of the...

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2026/07/28

Trevor Boone basically grew up inside a guitar shop.His dad started Emerald City Guitars in Seattle back in the mid-90s with a shoestring business plan, a small loan, and a whole lot of secondhand guitar-store dream dust. Trevor was the kid at the counter, surrounded by musicians, weird old guitars, shop talk, and the kind of musical obsession that tends to permanently rewire a person. In this episode, we get into Trevor’s journey from pre-eBay guitar hunts with his dad to becoming one of the

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59:58

The Yvette Young Episode With Superman in It

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2026/07/20

Yvette Young is back on the podcast, which means we are legally required to talk about beautiful guitar parts, creative chaos, and the strange little circus act of trying to be a functioning artist in the modern world.This time around, Yvette digs into her work on the new Superman soundtrack, including what it was like getting mysterious NDA phone calls, turning around guitar cues on tight deadlines, and then watching the movie wondering which of her parts survived the final cut instead of, you

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65:10

Buddy Blues: From Beirut Blues Kid to Guitar YouTube

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2026/07/15

Buddy Blues joins The Tone Mob for a long-overdue conversation about guitar, YouTube, blues, pedals, and the strange little internet ecosystem where all of those things collide. Buddy shares his story, from growing up in Beirut playing classical piano, discovering electric guitar through blues and Pink Floyd, moving to Florida as a teenager, gigging heavily, touring with John Mayall, and eventually finding his way into the world of guitar YouTube after the live music world hit a wall in

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82:36

How 29 Pedals Made Buffers Cool

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2026/07/06

Jesse Honig of 29 Pedals finally joins The Tone Mob, and we are digging all the way into the beautifully nerdy machinery of his story. Before launching 29 Pedals, Jesse spent years inside studios, tape machines, consoles, repair benches, and the general glowing underworld of professional audio. He worked as a roadie as a teenager, became a studio assistant in Philadelphia, built a life as a session player, engineer, and tech, then eventually found himself working with companies like Slate Digital

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68:37

Why Musora Is Putting Your Favorite Bands On The Spot

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2026/06/29

Ron Jackson has one of those jobs that sounds suspiciously like something a music nerd invented while staring at the ceiling. As the host and producer of Musora’s Covers On The Spot, Ron brings bands into the studio, hands them an iconic song from somewhere outside their natural habitat, and gives them only a few hours to rebuild it in their own image. The results have included Emily Wolfe dragging Billie Eilish into the smoky riff dungeon of Black Sabbath, Archspire attacking Rosé and Bruno Mars

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68:59

Sal Mignano on Held, The Sleeping & a Lifetime of Loud

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2026/06/22

Sal Mignano has never been particularly interested in making the bass behave itself. As a founding member of The Sleeping and one-third of the thunderous new project Held, Sal writes riffs from the bottom up, stacks distortion pedals into increasingly hostile little ecosystems, and believes the bass should do considerably more than quietly hold everyone’s coat. Sal joins Blake to tell the wonderfully accidental origin story of Held, including free studio time, a last-minute guitarist cancellation,

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68:24

Cosmodio and the Art of Beautiful Chaos (Barton McGuire)

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2026/06/15

Barton McGuire doesn’t believe a guitar pedal should politely prevent you from making a bad sound. Where’s the adventure in that?In this episode, Blake sits down with the founder of Cosmodio Instruments to talk about accidental self-oscillation, homemade noise contraptions, imposter syndrome, and the long road from stuffing circuits into RadioShack boxes to running a growing pedal company. Barton explains why Cosmodio builds “adventurous pedals for adventurous people,” how the Gravity Well helped

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