Hello, I'm Jon. I make pedals and synth modules by hand in Canberra, Australia, although I'm originally from the South West of England (Bristol/Weston-Super-Mare).

Lateral circuits are all original designs; the pedals started out mainly with guitarists in mind but it turns out they also sound great with a bass or a synth or whatever…

The ethos is simple: Creative musicians need inspiring equipment. Lateral Sound effects are designed to be as flexible and exciting as possible – you want your guitar to sound like a broken fruit machine or an angry robot? Fine, but you also want to be able to hear the notes in the riff that you’re playing? No worries. Perhaps there are enough ‘bluesy overdrive’ pedals out there already? But maybe there’s nothing wrong with being able to get that tone from a fuzz pedal that can also sound like a motorbike. You should be able to sculpt your sound, not have it limited and defined by the kit you use.

I'm a bit obsessed with this stuff and Lateral Sound customers tend to be too.

Cheers, Jon