FPGA AUDIO ELECTRONICS · PARALLEL EFFECTS · BUILT IN INDIA
One screen. The whole board.
An entire pedalboard, rebuilt inside one device. The effects you would normally chain across the floor — overdrive, distortion, fuzz, wah, modulation and delay, each modeled on a classic — all run in the silicon at the same time, into a built-in cabinet simulation. Tap any pedal on the Crucible’s touchscreen to dial in its parameters, or shape everything from your desktop over USB.
Guitar in, tone out. Every effect runs in parallel inside the box — no serial chain, no stacking, no added latency.
The pedals that defined a sound — each modeled on a classic and running in its own corner of the silicon, all at the same time. Stack them, A/B them, automate them from the editor.
A sweeping resonant filter — vocal, expressive, worked with your foot.
Warm, responsive grit that cleans up the moment you ease off.
All knobs up for the Scandinavian buzzsaw — tight, high-gain, unmistakable.
Hard-clipped, endless-sustain saturation that never lets go.
Amplitude swung from a gentle shimmer to a hard, throbbing chop.
Sweeping notches for liquid, swirling motion.
Detuned doublings that widen a single part into an ensemble.
Echoes from a tight slapback to long, trailing repeats.
Obsidian is a hardware studio out of the AI Centre of Excellence at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. We design professional audio electronics around FPGAs — then take them from breadboard to a board you can hold. Named for the monolith: a silent slab that changes everything around it.
Designed, fabricated and assembled domestically. Studio-grade audio hardware engineered for the Indian market — and built to travel.
Every board is verified by hand and certified against the fab’s real process before it ships. Breadboard to manufacturable, with the discipline to match.
The Crucible leads, but it isn’t alone. A bench of audio tools, instruments and machine-learning experiments, all built the same way.