About

Guitaroke is a one-person project. I am Paweł Kowalski, I work with sound for a living, and I build small music tools on the side.

Before this I made Stem Player, which splits songs into separate instruments, and CountIn. Guitaroke grew out of the first one. Once you can take a guitar out of a song, the obvious next thing is to play the part yourself, and for that you need more than a mute button. You need an amp that sounds roughly like the record, your volume in the right place, and a way to repeat the hard bit slowly.

So that is what this is. It is built for practising and for the plain fun of playing with a band that never gets tired.

What it is not

It is not a studio amp simulator and it does not pretend to copy the exact tone of a recording. It gets you close enough that playing along feels right. Better amp models are on the list.

It is also not a way to get free backing tracks to publish. Use it with music you own, for your own playing.

Get in touch

I read everything. The address is on the contact page.