Custom Digital Pedal?

[deadpool_25]

So I have an idea for a custom digital pedal. It's a delay/reverb/mod kinda thing. Ideally some existing company would just make it but maybe there's a way to get it made as a one-off from someone. How would you go about getting something like that off the ground.

 

[ragingplatypi]

I’ve heard Cusack builds pedals for other companies. Maybe they’d do it. I have a friend who does software and every now and then dabbles in hardware for his own projects. His company is Sonosaurus.

 

[TSJMajesty]

What about finding an EE professor at a local community college? And, maybe he could put you in touch with other people...

 

[2112]

Phil's Lab is a great resource for DIY audio DSP stuff



If you're not doing it yourself though I can imagine it's going to be a lengthy and expensive process for a one off.

 

[laxu]

A lot of boutique pedal companies adopted the Spin FV-1 processor to build their effects, but it has a bunch of limitations and is unlikely to work well if your idea is to do delay, reverb and mod all at once.

Experimental Noize FXCore seems like a potential successor.

Here's a good thread on the subject: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/is-the-spin-fv-1-stigma-deserved.2522026/

In any case I'd say it's not easy to make it happen if you are not a DSP programmer yourself and willing to spend a lot of time fiddling with the dev kit of whatever platform.

 

[ragingplatypi]

Could you just make it happen in an HX Stomp? I’ve found that with the routing options in there I’ve been able to accomplish several non traditional things.