Song → Rig → Your gear

Crack That Tone

Get the tone. Hear it against the record. Know it's right. Crack That Tone matches any song to the amp and pedals you already own — then lets you check the match by ear. The only app that checks its own work.

Download on the App Store
Coming soon
Get it on Google Play

Download free · 7-day free trial, then $6.99/mo to unlock everything.

A cracked song in Crack That Tone — the official video, the tuning, and Tone, Learn and Gear tabs for the sound, how to play it, and the gear behind it.
Crack it with your gear — the tone approximated on the pedals and amp you already own, with per-knob settings.
How it works

Three taps to the tone

01

Search a song

Type it, or connect Apple Music and pick from your own library. Confirm it with a preview — full track if you're a subscriber.

02

See the rig & the why

Guitars, amps, pedals, signal chain and tuning — plus the technique and a confidence rating. No fake precision.

03

Dial it in on your rig

Tell us what you own once. Every answer comes back as settings for your gear, with honest gaps and one smart upgrade.

◆ Coaching, not just settings

Know why it works

Every incumbent hands you knob numbers. We tell you what the hands do — pickup, picking position, attack, palm-muting — because for song-specific sounds, that's often half of it.

  • Technique + "why" on every result
  • Pickup & picking guidance
  • Confidence rating, honestly labelled
Coaching · the hands
Bridge humbucker. Pick near the bridge with a moderate attack. Palm-mute the verse riff; let the chorus ring — the sound is ~half the hands here.
Confidence · medium
artist rig well documented; per-song chain inferred from era.
Finding a song in Crack That Tone — search the Apple Music catalog, with trending and recently cracked tones.
♪ Apple Music integration

Build sounds from the music you already love

Connect Apple Music and pull them straight from the catalog and your own library. Subscribers hear the full track while they dial it in — everyone else gets a preview. No typing.

  • Apple Music catalog search & connect
  • Full-song playback for subscribers
  • Hear it against the record as you go

Spotify connect — coming soon.

▤ Gig Mode

Turn a setlist into a night of tones

For cover, tribute and worship players: build your setlist, get an ordered stack of rig cards dialled to your rig, and step through them mid-song with big, stage-friendly tap targets.

  • Build & save your own setlists
  • Ordered, quick-switch rig cards
  • Each card dialled to your gear
See Gig Mode →
1
Sultans of Swing
clean · neck pickup
EADGBE
2
Money for Nothing
gated crunch · now
open G
3
Brothers in Arms
ambient lead
EADGBE
Community tone · +142 ▲
"On a Katana, drop mids to 2 and it nails the scoop." — @riffraff
Verified & promoted
approved submissions ground future answers.
▲ Community-verified

A tone database that gets smarter

Submit the settings you dialed in; upvote what works. Approved settings are promoted into the knowledge base that grounds every answer — so the app compounds instead of going stale.

  • Submit & upvote real settings
  • Moderated, then promoted
  • Better answers over time
✉ NAM Build

A real capture, emailed to your inbox

Don't just read the settings — play them. Crack That Tone builds your rig from real Tone3000 NAM captures and emails you a build sheet, ready to load on your computer. Playing something else? With My Gear matches the amp and pedals you already own with substitute settings.

  • NAM capture rigs, emailed as a build sheet
  • Real Tone3000 captures, one per slot
  • Smart matching for any gear you already own
  • Buy the exact gear — or find substitutes — on Reverb
Choosing how to play a cracked tone — build a NAM preset or dial it in on the gear you already own.
The Learn tab's practice plan — warm-up and technique drills like alternate-picking and palm-muting, each with a metronome tempo and matched tutorial videos to watch.
◷ Practice plan

Learn the song by practicing its parts

Cracking the tone is step one — playing it is the goal. Crack That Tone turns a song into a practice plan: warm-ups and technique drills, then the song broken down section by section, each with tutorial videos so you build it up part by part at your own tempo.

  • Warm-ups & technique drills tailored to the song
  • Section-by-section breakdown, slow → full tempo
  • Tutorial videos matched to each part
◷ Practice tools

Tuner & metronome, built in

Everything you need to run a session lives one tap away in the Tools tab — no second app. A chromatic tuner hears your strings on-device, and a metronome runs 40–240 BPM with tap tempo, time signatures and subdivisions.

  • Chromatic tuner — on-device, hears every string
  • Metronome — tap tempo, time signatures, subdivisions
  • One Tools tab for your whole practice session
The built-in metronome — 40 to 240 BPM with tap tempo, time signatures and subdivisions.
Pricing

Free to try. Unlock everything.

Download free and browse. Unlock the full engine — rigs, coaching, With My Gear, practice plans, Gig Mode — for $6.99/mo after a 7-day free trial, or save 40% with annual.

Everything

Crack That Tone

$49.99/yr
$4.17/mo billed yearly · or $6.99/mo — save 40%
See what's included
Billed through the App Store / Google Play
  • Unlimited Song → Rig + coaching
  • With My Gear settings
  • NAM rig builds & gear matching
  • Learn to Play This — practice plans
  • Built-in tuner & metronome
  • Gig Mode setlists
  • Apple Music connect
Get the app

Crack that tone tonight

Download free and start your 7-day trial — then unlock the full engine for $6.99/mo.

Download on the App Store
Coming soon
Get it on Google Play