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 four more books on AI — who owns what a creator makes, and how the machines decide what to recommend — 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 questions: who owns creative work once the machines can make it too, and who the machines name when somebody asks.
- 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.
- The Screenshot: Why AI Recommends Your Competitors, and How to Fix It
How answer engines decide who to name, how to see your own gap with your own eyes, and how to repair the pages the machines misread. Eleven chapters, free in full.
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.