July 02, 2026

Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. If you've been anywhere near guitar forums or gear communities lately, you've probably seen the phrase "text-to-tone" come up. It's one of the core features of Positive Grid's REACTOR, an intelligent guitar combo amp that creates full signal chains from a typed description, a photo, or an audio recording — and it's the feature that tends to surprise people most when they first hear what it actually does.

July 02, 2026

Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes. If you're playing live with Positive Grid's REACTOR, the intelligent guitar combo amp that builds tone from prompts, photos, and recordings, REACTOR Control is what makes all of that power hands-free on stage. Six footswitches, an expression pedal input, wireless or wired connection, and a multi-gig battery life. Here's how to get the most out of it.

June 04, 2026

Estimated read time: 5-6 minutes.  So your new amp just arrived. You've unboxed it, you've looked at it, you've maybe already plugged in just to hear it cold. Good instinct. Positive Grid's REACTOR is an intelligent guitar combo amp that builds tone from text prompts, photos, and audio recordings — and there's a lot it can do right out of the box before you ever open the app. Here's how to get the most out of it from minute one, without having to go into the manual.

June 03, 2026

Estimated Read Time: 4-5 minutes. Positive Grid's REACTOR is a 1x12" combo amp powered by something called Amp Intelligence, a tone engine unlike anything that's been in a guitar amp before. It comes in two versions, 50W and 100W, and it's the kind of release that's hard to explain in a single sentence because it's not really doing one thing. It's doing several things that guitarists have wanted for a long time, all in one box. So let's get into it.

May 18, 2026

Estimated Read Time: 4 minutes. Every guitarist has done it. You sit down, pick up the guitar, and out comes that one riff. The one your fingers know by heart. The one that's basically your warm-up, your fidget, your default. Mine is a four-note thing — nothing fancy, just a pattern I've been playing for years. Recently I tried something. I played that same riff through four different Positive Grid rigs I had sitting around the studio. Same guitar. Same hands. Same starting idea. And the wild part wasn't that the tone changed (because it did) it's that I changed. The riff didn't stay the riff. It became four different songs.

May 15, 2026

Estimated Read Time: 3 minutes. There's a strange thing that happens when you finally dial in a setup that feels like yours. The guitar comes off the wall more often. You stop scrolling and start playing. Practice stops feeling like something you should be doing and starts feeling like the part of the day you've been waiting for.

May 11, 2026

Estimated Read Time: 3 Minutes. There's a version of your playing that nobody gets to hear. It's the stuff you gravitate toward when the pressure is off and you're just following your own ears around. And if you pay attention to it, that music tells you more about who you are as a guitarist than anything you've ever performed for an audience.

May 08, 2026

Estimated Read Time: 3 Minutes. I want you to think about the last time you actually felt like grabbing your guitar on a whim. Not a scheduled practice session, not a planned writing block, just a flash of inspiration where you thought, "I want to play right now." Did you act on it? Or did your brain immediately do the math — pull out the amp, find a cable that isn't tangled in three other cables, dig out the pedalboard, plug everything in, hope the power supply is where you left it — and then quietly decide it wasn't worth it?