ManifesTone

Guitarsenal

The armory for your weapons

A rig built for “a guitar” is a guess. Keep your guitars and basses in the app and CAPO builds for the one actually in your hands — the right pickup, the right switch position, the tuning you actually use.

What it looks like

CAPO's write-up for Coheed and Cambria's Welcome Home in the ManifesTone iPhone app. It gives settings for the Fender Stratocaster the player is holding — bridge pickup, tone rolled back to about seven, pick a touch harder — and then notes that the Gibson Explorer they also own is the guitar used on the record and would sound noticeably closer.
A Gibson Explorer opened out in the ManifesTone iPhone app, showing what CAPO worked out about it in prose — the pickups, the hardware, how its serial dates it and how it sounds — alongside its full specification.

How it files a guitar

You don't have to know the spec sheet

Type the model, or point the camera at the headstock, and CAPO fills in what he can — pickups, switching, string count, factory tuning, the serial off the plate. He looks it up once, shows you what he found, and you have the last word on all of it.

Then he uses it

Name a song and the settings come back for the guitar in your hands — which pickup, how far to roll the tone off, whether it wants retuning — and if another guitar you own would get you closer to the record, he says which, and why. That is the write-up in the picture above, unedited.

When he isn't sure, he says so

Anything he can't establish he leaves blank rather than guessing. A confident wrong answer about your own guitar is worse than an honest question.

The phone is the bench

The phone is where the camera is, so it is where you photograph a headstock, file a guitar and fix what CAPO got wrong. The plugin is where the session is, and it picks that same gear up on a track without leaving the DAW. In the DAW your arsenal is read-only on purpose — one bench kept true beats two copies quietly drifting apart.

Get it

File your first guitar tonight.

The Free plan holds one guitar; Plus holds five and Pro twenty. Every plan starts with five builds on the house.

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