Tonewood Amp: Accessible Effects from Your Guitar’s Soundbox

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Victor demos the Tonewood Amp, a small magnetic unit that attaches to the back of an acoustic-electric guitar and uses the guitar’s own soundbox to project effects like reverb, delay, chorus/phaser, and tremolo—no external amp or headphones required.

He also explores the Tonewood Amp Remote app, which is now fully accessible with VoiceOver thanks to his direct collaboration with the developers. The app lets you chain up to four effects, adjust routing (series or parallel), fine-tune EQ and compression, save presets, and control feedback with the “Feedback Assassin.”

Key Highlights

• Magnetic X-bracket mount allows quick, damage-free attachment.
• Requires an acoustic-electric guitar for the pickup signal.
• Accessible app on iOS and Android for screen reader users.
• Up to four effects in chain; choose series or parallel routing.
• Guitar profiles for different instruments; saves EQ, dynamics, and feedback settings.
• DI mode for connecting to amps or recording interfaces.
• Built-in presets and fully customizable effect chains.

Gear & App Mentioned

• Tonewood Amp hardware
• X-Bracket (magnetic mount)
• Acoustic-electric guitar
• Tonewood Amp Remote – iOS App Store

Accessibility Notes

• VoiceOver-friendly controls for effects, routing, and settings.
• All effect modules have accessible faders and toggles.
• Descriptive help sections explain series vs. parallel routing.

Transcript

Disclaimer: This transcript was generated by AI Note Taker – VoicePen, an AI-powered transcription app. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content.

Victor: This is Victor and today I'm going to show you a very cool product which just has become accessible. But let me maybe start from the basics. What I'm talking about is the Tonewood amp. That's a little amplifier that clips to the back of your guitar and then it uses a built-in speaker to produce some effects through your guitar's sound box. So I'm going to explain this in some more detail how this works but this is the basic idea. So where do we start? We start with the fact that this amplifier is in fact a rectangular device. If you can imagine you have a guitar relatively middle size, it definitely will occupy a very tiny space on the back of your guitar. The way this works is that with the device, when it ships, you get something called an X-bracket and this X-bracket has some adhesive tape that you use to attach the bracket itself to the guitar from the inside. Now I just wanted to let you know that this does not in any way damage the wood of your guitar. They usually advise that you try the amplifier first before you attach it, but, you know, that's already sort of for the manual. I'm not going to go into these details here. So let's say you know the place where you want to attach the amplifier. From the inside you find a similar space where you can attach the…