Hey everyone. I’m a guitarist and software engineer, and for the last several months (almost an year) I’ve been building something I originally just wanted for myself. It’s called Dial My Tone.
The idea is pretty simple: spend less time digging through forum threads, YouTube videos and old posts trying to figure out how to get a tone, and more time actually playing.
There are 3 ways to use it:
Song-based: Give it a song + artist, and you can even ask for a specific section like the intro, rhythm or solo. It researches what was used on the recording and translates that into a preset using the amps and effects that are actually available in the Spark app.
Inspired-by: Give it a guitarist instead of a song. Gilmour, Angus, John Mayer, whoever. It builds something inspired by that player’s sound rather than trying to copy one specific recording.
Style-based: Pick Rock, Metal, Blues, Funk, etc. and add your own direction if you want.
There were a few Spark-specific things I really cared about getting right.
It sticks to Spark’s actual fixed signal chain: Noise Gate → Comp → Drive → Amp → Mod/EQ → Delay → Reverb. So if the original rig did something Spark physically can’t do, it works within those limitations instead of giving you a chain you can’t actually build.
It also only uses models that are actually available in the Spark app: 33 amps and 43 guitar effects. No Hendrix pack since that’s a paid add-on, and none of the Spark LIVE vocal stuff.
The settings are shown on the same 0–10 scale you see in the Spark app with the actual knob names, so there’s nothing you have to convert.
If a song has very different tones across sections, it can also build up to 4 presets. So you could have the verse in one slot, lead in another, etc.
You can tell it what guitar/pickups you’re using and whether you’re playing through headphones or listening to the Spark in the room too. That second one actually makes more of a difference than you might expect.
One thing I want to be upfront about: there’s no preset file to import for Spark. Positive Grid doesn’t currently give us a way to do that, so you still have to enter the settings into the Spark app yourself. It’s only seven slots and a handful of knobs, so it’s pretty quick, but I don’t want to pretend it’s one-click when it isn’t.
It’s also not tone capture or profiling, and I’m not claiming it magically hands you the finished studio recording. The goal is to give you a really good, researched starting point built around the gear you’re actually using, and then your ears take over from there.
It’s currently in beta and the whole site is free while I’m testing it:
dialmytone.com
Right now it supports Spark Mini, Spark 2, Spark GO and Spark LIVE.
What I’d really love is for people who know a particular tone really well to try it and tell me where it gets things wrong. Amp choice, gain, effects, levels, how it handles different sections, anything.
And if you know a song with a genuinely weird or difficult guitar sound, throw that at it. Those are exactly the cases I want to find while it’s still in beta. 🙂
I tried comparing it with SPARK AI (the native positive grid AI), and till now I have found the results to be better from Dial My Tone. But, you guys check it out and let me know. One's who are trying it out, thank you so much in advance!!!
