PROGRAMMABLE · TACTILE · SWAPPABLE

Analog hands.
Digital brain.

A pedal that feels fully analog — real knobs, real switches, real click — but runs its effects on DSP you program from your laptop or phone. Swap a printed plate and the whole pedal becomes something else.

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1 core
RUNS ANY EFFECT
∞ plates
SWAP TO REPROGRAM
2 sizes
3-KNOB / 6-KNOB
PEDAL · 01
DIRT ROAD
NFC
FUZZ / DRIVE
GAIN
TONE
LEVEL
// THE IDEA

The boutique feel of analog, without picking one effect forever.

Under every enclosure is one small DSP core — a Raspberry Pi running low-latency effects. The knobs, switches and footswitches are real, wired to the core through an ADC. What each control does is defined by the plate on the face. Change the plate, change the pedal.

01

Real analog controls

Genuine pots, 3-way toggles and true-feel footswitches. No menus to dive, no encoders pretending to be knobs. It plays like a pedal because it is one.

02

One core, any effect

Reverb, delay, pitch, fuzz, modulation — all run on the same DSP. Build or download an algorithm, assign it to the controls, flash it to a plate.

03

Swap to reprogram

Each plate carries its art, its control map and an NFC preset. Drop it on, power up, and the pedal reconfigures to that sound in under a second.

// THE PLATE

A printed face that reprograms the pedal.

Every plate is three things at once. Buy more plates to expand your rig — or design your own.

LAYER 01 — ART

Screen-printed graphic identity. Every effect looks and feels like its own boutique pedal.

LAYER 02 — CONTROL MAP

Labels printed around each knob and switch tell you — and the core — what every control now means.

LAYER 03 — NFC PRESET

An embedded NTAG chip holds the algorithm ID and its settings. On power-up the pedal reads it and resets to that patch.

TRY IT — TAP A PLATE TO LOAD IT
{{ plate.name }} — {{ plate.type }}

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◐ NFC WRITTEN ↺ CORE RECONFIGURED
PEDAL · 01
{{ plate.name }}
{{ plate.typeUpper }}
NFC
{{ k.label }}
// THE HARDWARE

Two enclosures. Same brain.

Every plate fits either body. Start with one, chain four, five, six — the rig grows with your plate collection.

MODEL 3 · STD
MODEL 3

The Three

  • 3 analog knobs
  • 3-position toggle under each knob
  • Single soft footswitch
  • 1590B · ~112 × 60 mm
for focused, one-job sounds
MODEL 6 · STD
MODEL 6

The Six

  • 6 analog knobs
  • 3-position toggle per knob for variations
  • Double or triple footswitch
  • 1590BB · ~119 × 94 mm
for deep, multi-tap patches
// SIGNAL PATH

The controls are analog. The audio is not.

Your signal is digitised once, processed on the DSP core, and returned to analog — while the knobs you turn simply tell the core how to behave.

INPUT
Guitar
1/4″ jack → buffer
CODEC
ADC → DSP → DAC
24-bit / 48 kHz stereo codec, <3 ms round trip
CORE
Raspberry Pi
Runs the effect algorithm loaded by the plate
OUTPUT
Amp
1/4″ jack, true-analog out
Knobs & switches → ADC → Core
An MCP3008 reads every pot and toggle as a control voltage. The core maps them live to the loaded algorithm's parameters.
Plate NFC → Core (on power-up)
A PN532 reader scans the plate's NTAG chip at boot, loads the referenced patch and restores its saved settings.
// THE SOFTWARE

Design the sound. Drag it onto a plate.

The companion app finds every connected pedal, lets you patch effects visually from a library or the block editor, then assigns knobs and writes the result to a plate.

pedal studio — DIRT ROAD.plate ● 3 pedals connected
EFFECT LIBRARY
Fuzz · Germanium
Hall Reverb
Tape Delay
Pitch / Octave
Chorus
+ 40 more
SIGNAL GRAPH
IN
━▸
Germanium Fuzz
bias · gain · tone
━▸
Tone Stack
tilt EQ
━▸
OUT
▾ DRAG PARAMETERS ONTO PLATE CONTROLS
GAIN → K1
TONE → K2
LEVEL → K3
PLATE
DIRT ROAD
FUZZ / DRIVE
TargetModel 3
Toggles3 × variant
CPU load18%
✓ macOS · Windows · iOS · Android
✓ USB-C or Wi-Fi
✓ Open patch format
// THE BUILD

Bill of materials

A realistic maker BOM for a single Model 3 unit (audio core + control surface + one plate). Prices are indicative single-unit estimates and drop sharply at volume.

EST. UNIT COST ≈ £150–175 · QTY / PRICE PER UNIT

COMPONENT PART / SPEC QTY EST. £ NOTES
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SUBTOTAL — BUILD OF MATERIALS ≈ £163 + PCB fab, plates & assembly

Additional plates add ~£6–9 each (aluminium blank, screen-print, NTAG215 chip). The Model 6 adds three more pots, three more toggles, a larger 1590BB enclosure and a triple footswitch (≈ +£28).

One pedal. Every effect you'll ever print.

Reserve a Model 3 or Model 6 and get the first three plates of your choice. Ships with the studio app and an open patch format.

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pedal DSP · ANALOG SKIN · 2026
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