Sense Pedals is a one-bench workshop in Brünisried, in the Sense-Oberland, Switzerland. I build analog guitar pedals in small batches — a few dozen a year — and I write about what is inside them.
The writing is not marketing for the pedals; it works the other way around. Every circuit that crosses this bench gets the full treatment: schematic, simulation, measurement. The netlists and code behind every article live in the open repository. If I claim a circuit does something, there is a plot.
The pedals are hand-built and expensive, in that order. Today they are commissioned builds: you want something that does not exist off the shelf, and I build it — on documented circuits and proven boards, with selected and measured components, delivered with a measurement sheet recorded for that serial number. Pedals of my own design are the declared goal. They will grow out of sessions with musicians from around here: prototypes get played, compared, argued over, and modified until they earn an enclosure.
All of it exists because a waiting list was seven years long.
New articles go to the newsletter, and when the first batch of my own design exists, the list hears it first. For everything else: hello@sensepedals.ch.