Your Analog Skills Are Already Enough. Now Build the Digital Effects Analog Can't Touch.
A step-by-step course for analog pedal builders who want to design and build their own digital effects - delays, reverbs, pitch shifters, and more - without writing a single line of C++.
Enroll Now for $189or 3 payments of $67
You knew what you wanted to build. A delay that didn't require a bucket brigade chip and a prayer. A reverb that didn't take up half the board. Pitch shifting that actually tracked. Complex modulation that analog makes you work for one painful component at a time. So you went looking for how to do it digitally. And that's where everything stopped making sense.
The tutorials assumed you had a development environment already configured. The forum threads pointed to documentation that raised three new questions for every one they answered. The example code compiled - maybe - and then did nothing you could hear. You found a GitHub repository with forty files and no indication of where to start. You tried getting AI to write the code for you, got something that looked plausible, had no way to tell if it was correct, and when it didn't work you had no path to figuring out why.
Every resource you found was written by someone who already knew how to write firmware. Nobody built the entry point for someone who knows exactly what a good delay sounds like but has never touched a C++ compiler in their life.
You've had the sound in your head for years. The only thing missing was a way to get it out of your head and into a pedal.
You described a delay pedal in one sentence. Eight minutes later it was playing through your amp.
That is what changes when you stop trying to learn the toolchain and start using the right one.
This course gives you a complete, tested workflow for designing and building your own digital guitar effects - using the Daisy Seed hardware platform and a structured AI prompting method that turns plain-English descriptions into working code. You test it in your browser. You hear it. You refine it. You flash it to hardware. From description to playing through an amp: under ten minutes, once your one-time setup is complete.
One hardware platform. Unlimited effects. You are not designing a new circuit for every pedal - you are describing a new effect, regenerating the code, and flashing it. The hardware stays the same. What you can build is limited only by what you can put into words.
This is designing effects the same way you design analog circuits - by ear, by feel, by iteration - with the code handled for you.
ENROLL NOW FOR $189 or 3 payments of $67What You Will Learn
Hear It In Minutes
Flash your first working digital effect to real hardware and hear it through your amp in your first session - no programming background required.
Design By Description
Use our structured AI prompting method to design any effect you can describe, from a clean tremolo to a complex granular reverb, in minutes.
Wire The Hardware
Wire a complete breadboard effects pedal with real input and output circuitry, three working control knobs, and live guitar signal processing - from scratch.
Recreate The Classics
Recreate the sound of commercial pedals - then customize them beyond what the manufacturer intended, because the effect is yours.
Master The Workflow
Understand how to get from FAUST code to Daisy Seed hardware every time, without fighting the toolchain or guessing why something is not working.
Make It Permanent
Build an effects platform you can take anywhere - on a breadboard to start, then boxed up in a proper enclosure using stripboard, with links to PCB options for permanent builds.
Unlimited Effects
Use the structured prompt method to generate unlimited new effects - as long as you can describe what you want, you can build it.
Never Get Stuck
Get unstuck fast, with access to a private forum staffed by the instructor and support team, plus three custom AI assistants trained exclusively on this course.
25 Bonus DSP Effects
Start with 25 working effects already in your hands - a ready-to-use DSP library covering everything from compression and EQ to reverbs, pitch shifters, and delays, so you are never starting from a blank page.
Curriculum Overview
Welcome and Overview
You will know exactly what you are building, what to order, and what to expect before you spend a dollar on hardware. This section gives you the roadmap, the full bill of materials, and a clear picture of the finish line.
Introducing the Daisy Seed
Before you wire anything, you need to understand what the Daisy Seed actually is and why it is the right platform for this. This section covers the board, the pinout, and why this hardware is the foundation for everything that follows.
Software and Platform Setup
A one-time setup, done correctly, that you will never have to repeat. Full step-by-step walkthroughs for both Windows and macOS - every install, every library, every configuration - so your environment is ready to build before you touch the hardware.
AI-Driven DSP Creation with FAUST (The Core Workflow)
This is the heart of the course. You will learn the six-step workflow that takes you from a plain-English description of an effect to working, testable DSP code - and then walk through creating your first real effects, including a tremolo pedal, while learning how to refine and troubleshoot results in real time.
Hardware Setup - Making It a Pedal
Time to leave the browser and get onto the breadboard. You will wire the input and output circuitry, connect your potentiometers, and prepare your Daisy Seed to receive its first firmware - turning a development module into a real guitar effect.
From FAUST Code to Daisy Seed
You have written the effect and wired the hardware. Now you connect them. This section walks you through flashing firmware, verifying your audio signal and knob control, and hearing your own effect playing through a real amp for the first time.
Recreating Classic Pedals
You will take a known commercial effect - the TC Electronic Sub'n'Up Mini Octaver - and recreate it from scratch using the FAUST workflow. Then you will understand exactly how to go further than the original and make it your own.
Wrap-Up and Next Steps
Your breadboard build becomes a permanent pedal. You will learn how to box it up using stripboard, with links to PCB options for cleaner long-term builds. And you will leave with a clear picture of where to go next.
Is This Course For You?
This course is for you if:
- You have built analog pedal kits or designed your own basic analog circuits and want to add digital effects to what you can build
- You have tried to learn to code your own digital pedals, or wanted to, but it seemed too overwhelming and complicated
- You want to build delays, reverbs, pitch shifters, complex modulation effects, or anything else your mind can think of that analog cannot do efficiently - or at all
- You can solder and breadboard basic circuits
- You want one hardware platform that runs unlimited effects instead of designing a new board for every pedal
- You want an established framework to use AI to successfully build anything you can dream up
This course is NOT for you if:
- You have no soldering or breadboarding experience - there is analog circuitry in this build, and if you are starting from zero on electronics we recommend starting with the Complete Beginner's Guide to DIY Guitar Pedal Circuits first
- You want to work at a professional audio engineering or DSP research level - this is a builder's and creator's course, not an engineering program
Meet Your Instructor
Sascha Suhr has been chasing tone for more than 40 years - not by buying gear, but by understanding exactly why circuits behave the way they do. With an electrical engineering degree and the ears of a working musician, he has spent his career at the intersection of music and electronics.
He is the author of Tracking Down Your Dream Tone Vol. 1 and 2, two of the most respected books in the DIY pedal community, and the instructor behind the LTSpice for Pedal Design course on GuitarPedalCourse.com. When Brian Wampler goes looking for someone to teach a subject, the question is always the same: who knows this at a deep level and can teach it without leaving gaps? For the digital side of pedal building, the answer was Sascha.
$189
- Complete course access with all video lessons across 8 sections
- Private community forum with access to Sascha and the GuitarPedalCourse.com support team
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Three custom AI assistants - one each for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini - trained exclusively on every piece of content in this course. These are not general purpose AI tools. They know this workflow, this hardware, and this method inside and out. Anyone who has followed an AI-generated answer down the wrong path for an hour before realizing it was completely wrong knows exactly why that matters. Ask a question at any hour and get an answer you can actually trust.
- 25 ready-to-use DSP effect files included - a complete starting library covering EQ, compression, de-essers, pitch shifters, flangers, reverbs, rotary speakers, delays, and more. Load them straight to your hardware, study how they work, or use them as a starting point for your own designs.
- 30-day money-back guarantee: If you do the work and do not end up with a working digital effects pedal, you get a full refund, no questions asked.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I really not need to know any code?
You are going to learn to code - just not the way programmers have had to do it for the last forty years. Describe the effect you want in plain English. The AI writes the code. You listen, you refine, you shape it by ear until it's exactly what you heard in your head. The whole industry is starting to call this vibe coding. We think builders have been working this way since the first time someone swapped a capacitor and listened to what changed. You already know how to do this. Now there's a version of it for digital effects.
Do I need to buy expensive software?
No. The FAUST IDE runs in your browser at no cost. The Daisy toolchain is free. The only purchase outside the course itself is the Daisy Seed hardware and the basic components for the IO circuit — the full bill of materials is covered in Section 1 so you know exactly what to order before you spend anything.
Does this work on Mac?
Yes. The course includes a complete, dedicated setup walkthrough for macOS in Section 3, separate from the Windows walkthrough. Both paths are fully supported and tested.
I already build analog pedals. Will the hardware side of this be too basic for me?
Your analog background is actually an advantage here. The wiring around the digital module is straightforward stuff - inputs, outputs, power, knobs. You have done all of it before. The course moves through that quickly and gets to what you actually came for: describing effects, generating code, and hearing what comes out the other side. That is where the new skills are, and that is where most of the course lives.
What if I get stuck?
Getting stuck is part of building anything. The difference here is that you have two real options when it happens. The private forum gives you direct access to Sascha and the GuitarPedalCourse.com support team - people who know this material and can actually troubleshoot with you. And when it is midnight and you just want an answer right now, the three custom AI assistants have you covered. These are not the same AI tools you have already tried. They have been methodically trained on every piece of content inside this course, which means they know exactly what you are building, exactly how the workflow operates, and exactly where things typically go wrong. You will get a specific, useful answer - not a generic response that runs you into dead ends.