Catalog
Everything I Make
The full shelf from the desk that wrote THE SIGNAL CHAIN — the books, the essays, the apps, and the company underneath them
One catalog for the whole body of work — Jason Colapietro, who plays as Johnny Suede. It starts where this site starts: guitar and tone, a book about six strings and the life around them. From there it widens to three more books on AI and who owns what a creator makes, the apps I build for musicians, and Suede Labs AI, the company building practical tools for creators and software agents. Pick a shelf and start reading.
Read — guitar & tone
This is the writing the whole site is built around — guitar, tone, and the parts of a record that never make it onto a lead sheet.
- The Signal Chain
A guitarist's history of amps, effects, and electric tone, braided with memoir, theory, a songbook, and 111 song lessons. It grew out of the earlier self-taught instruction thread once published as The Guitar Without a Number, which now lives inside it. Seven chapters and five workshops free; the complete edition is $19.99.
- Print the Quiet
Nine free essays on tone and dynamics — Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, the loudness war, the compressor, the sound of the room itself.
- The Suede 100
Every effects pedal worth naming, ranked 1 to 100, head to head. No honorable mentions, no genre excuses. The list the press won't print.
- Suede DNA
An archive of 400+ guitar rigs and signal chains across decades of recordings — the exact gear and routing behind the tones that defined the records.
More books — AI, ownership & the creative future
Same hand, different string. These titles trade the fretboard for the bigger question: who owns creative work once the machines can make it too.
- Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer
The case that origin and ownership are the only marks AI can't fake — and the layer Suede Labs builds to prove them.
- Proof as Infrastructure
How to build systems that hold up when nobody trusts anybody — proof baked in, not bolted on. The blueprint under the registry.
- Stake Your Claim
Speeches and hard truths on flipping the AI onslaught into an asset you own — autonomous agents, real claims, generational wealth.
Play & practice — the apps
Tools built by a guitarist who got tired of practice apps that nag. A free chord-and-scale reference, a coach that answers in plain English, three studios that take your craft seriously, and a companion that pushes back.
- The Strumly free course
A guided course in three stages — Foundations, Repertoire & tone, and Train with the coach — built on the free tools. No account, no paywall: start playing in order
- guitarchords.info
A free guitar reference site with no paywall and no account required: chord library, scale trainer, chromatic tuner, and metronome. A Suede Labs project.
- Strumly
Ask your guitar coach anything, any hour, and get a straight answer — tuner, metronome, chord and scale tools, song help, and an ear trainer built in
- Suede Guitar Tuner & Studio
A real guitar studio on your iPhone: tuner, timing drills, chord tools, a rig workbench, setup diagnostics, room health, and session capture
- FretPulse: Guitar Practice
Auto-generated daily practice routines with real-time scrolling notation and BPM tracking. Free with optional Premium at $9.99/mo — built for guitarists who want structure that moves.
- Suede Studio Voice
Map your range, watch your register shifts, and build voice routines that hold up. Local-first — your practice stays on your phone
- Suede Studio Muse
Think out loud with a dry-wit bandmate who works ideas with you and tells you when they're bad. Not a yes-man
- Suede: AI Music Generator
A workspace for generating, organizing, and exporting AI-assisted musical ideas
More from Suede — studio, video & community
Beyond the practice apps: the studio where a track gets made and shipped, the video tools that put it in front of people, the map you explore music on, and the community that argues tone with you.
- Suede Studio
The studio where the track gets made and shipped — an AI producer builds it, you keep the stems, and a real person releases it to 55+ platforms. Own 100% of your masters.
- Producer
Faceless and avatar videos on autopilot — your keys, your channel, pennies per render. A posting channel that runs without showing your face.
- Promo
A creator-content marketplace: brands post a brief, creators compete on their own channels, and you pay only for the posts that perform — creators get paid fast through Stripe.
- Suede Social
A guitar community built on real rigs — talk tone, share pedalboards and tone recipes, and post in the forum with players whose gear is actually on the page.
- Suede Cosmos
A navigable galaxy of music: stars cluster by genre and brighten by relevance. Click any one to explore the map.
- GuitarHub
The open guitar editorial hub — reads, rig guides, and gear breakdowns. Front door to the Suede Social community for players who want more than a forum.
Company & developer tools — Suede Labs AI
Suede Labs AI builds practical products for musicians, creators, and software agents.
- Suede Labs AI
The company under the apps, creator tools, and agent services in this catalog.
- Suede Agent Studio
Build a visual agent flow and publish it as a paid x402 endpoint. Your automation earns every time another app calls it — the publishing layer for paid agent services.
- Suede Creator Skills
A 20-skill pack for AI coding agents: design and copy lanes, SEO/AEO/AI EO audits, Suedify site workflow, rights-passport tools, campaign and launch utilities, code grading, and the Johnny Suede writing and design modes. Install into Claude Code in one command.