Union Rig — AI-powered guitar instrument
UNION

RIG

Our AI just permanently broke your pedalboard. You're welcome.

Union Rig's AI-driven effects engine doesn't care about your feelings. The warm, compressed, fully analogue signal chain does.

$849 — Shipping 2027

How it works

01

Plug in your guitar.

One cable in, stereo out. Your signal enters Union Rig and stays analog the entire way through. No conversion. No latency. The full weight of your pickups, your fingers, your attack — preserved exactly as your instrument delivers it.

02

AI builds 12 custom sounds for you.

Trained on the collective understanding of all guitar music ever recorded, the AI inside Union Rig knows what makes a great clean shimmer, what makes a lead cut through a mix, and what makes a rhythm part sit perfectly in a band. It builds 12 sounds — your working set — shaped to your playing style and the way you use your instrument.

03

The signal stays analog. Always.

Here is where Union Rig breaks from everything else: the AI shapes the parameters — drive character, spatial depth, tonal weight — but your guitar signal never touches a digital converter. It passes through analog circuitry the entire time. Hi-fidelity. No artifacts. The warmth and power of your pickups, untouched.

04

Intelligence meets warmth. That is the point.

AI that understands tone at the deepest level. Analog signal path that refuses to compromise your sound. Union Rig is the marriage of those two ideas — the precision of machine learning with the soul of real circuitry. Not AI for the sake of AI. AI in service of making you sound like yourself, but better.

Every sound you have ever loved was made by someone who trusted their gear.

Trust what works.

Fixed Signal Chain

One topology. No menus. Six stages, always in the same order — because decisions make better instruments than options do.

DYNAMICS

Pick response

DRIVE

Saturation

CHARACTER

Tone shaping

STEREO

Width split

SPACE

Delay + reverb

OUTPUT

Final shape

Six knobs. Four footswitches. Nothing else.

Tone / Feel

Touch

Heat

Body

Touch controls how much your pick attack matters. Heat dials in saturation from clean push to full breakup. Body shapes the tonal weight — thin and cutting to thick and warm.

Space / Time

Depth

Motion

Tempo

Depth sets how much space surrounds the signal — from dry to cathedral. Motion adds movement and modulation. Tempo locks time-based effects to your feel.

Footswitches — left to right

Looper

Scene A/B

Next

Previous

Try the Rig

Interactive pedal simulator. Turn the knobs and hear the difference in real-time.

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Tone

Touch

Heat

Body

Space

Depth

Motion

Tempo

Rig Engaged

12 sounds. 2 scenes each. No banks.

Your working set is always loaded. Step through sounds with your feet. Switch scenes within a song. Hold the scene switch to morph between A and B, release to come back. Twenty-four playable states, zero menu diving.

The AI learns how you adjust sound over time — not who you are. A local preference memory nudges future changes toward your tendencies. No cloud. No tracking. Reset it whenever you want.

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4.2" e-ink display

Shows where you are. Not what to do. No meters. No animations. Orientation, not permission.

Performance Looper

Your loop lives inside the instrument.

Single loop, sound-on-sound overdub. Recorded post-dynamics, pre-space — so when you change the space or switch scenes, the loop responds. It is not a separate device bolted on. It is part of the instrument. Change sounds, change scenes — the loop persists. Clear it when you are done.

Mono In

Stereo Out

6

Macro Knobs

4

Footswitches

12

Sounds Loaded

24

Playable States

0

Menu Dives

Built to last

CNC Aluminum Enclosure

Machined from solid aluminum. No plastic. Stage-proof and studio-grade.

Internal Power Supply

IEC C14 inlet with universal AC-DC conversion. No wall wart. Earth bonded to chassis.

Deterministic DSP Engine

Audio processing is isolated and real-time. No OS jitter. No dropouts. Ever.

AI on the Control Plane

The AI shapes parameters and builds sounds. It never touches your audio signal. That stays analog.

$849. Shipping 2027.

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