Which guitar is playing? | Guitar Earo

Which guitar is playing?

Have fun with tone.

We asked 180 guitarists to tell a Les Paul from a Stratocaster. Six in ten got it wrong.

0 correct so far

Which guitar is playing?

One clip. Two guitars.

Your ear score

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Five rounds, about a minute. Real recordings, straight from the app.

Guitarists who stopped guessing

Five stars from players who ran the same test.

★★★★★

Finally an app that trains your ear for guitar tone properly. I thought I knew the difference.
App Store review

★★★★★

I didn't expect this to be so addictive. Love the arcade mode.
Google Play review

★★★★★

Very original and carefully built. Significant soundbank of actual guitars.
Google Play review

★★★★★

I downloaded this as I wanted to buy a new guitar. Well structured. I am a fan now.
App Store review

One blind test a day

Five rounds. A score. A streak you do not want to drop. Share the card and make someone else guess.

Today's tone test finished: four out of five correct, day 111, plus 45 XP, with a shareable score card
Day 111. Four out of five.

Miss it. Hear why. Come back tomorrow.

The game first. The rest when you want it.

01

Hear the ingredients of tone

You cannot learn tone from the finished sound alone. We break it into the parts that make it up, in order.

02

Real guitars

Same player, same amp, same room. One thing changed. No AI.

03

Instant A/B when you miss

Toggle while the sound is still in your head. No shop and no video gives you that.

Guitar Earo asking which of two sounds, A or B, belongs to a Gibson ES-335
Which sound is this guitar? A or B.
A Gibson ES-335 Dot Reissue in the Guitar Earo player with pickup position and sample controls
Real recorded instruments. Pick the pickup.
Two guitars side by side in Guitar Earo for instant A and B comparison
Two guitars. One toggle. Same take.
The Guitar Earo tone map, a path of lessons and games through the Anatomy of Tone chapter
Anatomy of Tone. Chapter one of seven.

Tone is learnable. It has just never had a gym.

Behind the game there is a path. Short lessons, more games, one ingredient of tone at a time. Take it or leave it. The daily test works on its own.

Your gear deserves better ears.

A new blind test every day, the whole guitar library, and instant A/B on every pair you miss.

7 days free. Cancel anytime. Then less than a set of strings a month.

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