I’m an electronics engineer and a guitarist. Like a lot of people, I grew up as a bedroom musician, recording through an interface, a DAW, and plugins — dialing tones that sounded great at home, then completely falling apart once I plugged into a real amp in a rehearsal room.

At some point, the question became unavoidable: Why can’t I bring the same plugin chain I use on my computer into a pedal?

This is the story of how I spent two years building the guitar pedal I always wanted.

From here, the project will move into software: open-source plugins and amp modeling.

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