Analog soul.
Digital smarts.
Your gear is good! Let’s make magic with it
For many musicians, the heart of their sound is an analog signal chain: cherished pedals and vintage amps, curated over years into something that’s unmistakably theirs.
Musology provides a digital organisation layer for analog rigs—bringing clarity, convenience, and modular flexibility to your ’board, without getting in the way of your sound.
Our story
Musology was born within a decades-long friendship, and a shared obsession with music and sound creation. Co-founders Ashley Brown and Grace Young spent their teenage years in the era of early MIDI, analog synths, and floppy disk–based drum machines and sequencers—making whatever gear they could afford work, learning by tinkering.
As the industry moved digital, they followed—it was Ashley who introduced Grace to Ableton Live, a step-change for her music-making and performance approach. But while studio tools became more powerful, live rigs became more fragmented. Grace lived for the tactile world of pedals—delay, fuzz, overdrive—but integrating laptop-based samples and digital control into a gigging setup was fragile, messy, and distracting.
Determined to solve her own problem, Grace applied her background in IoT hardware design to build the first “Phat Controller” prototype. Naturally, she reached out to Ashley to jam on the concept. They discovered how their individual experiences proved complementary: Ashley steeped in digital production and electronic music performance tools, Grace playing small clubs with indie bands, guitars, and bass rigs. Together, they could see solutions from both sides: digital and analog.
They knew they weren’t alone. For years, they and their musician friends had been chasing the solutions to the same problems—trawling forums, watching YouTube deep-dives, piecing together workarounds. The tools they needed simply didn’t exist.
As they talked, more ideas flowed, and a bigger picture emerged: not one product, but an ecosystem of intelligent devices, each solving a different friction point in the analog signal chain. Built for musicians like them.
Like you…
That vision became Musology.
Who we’re for
Musology is built for the gigging musician.
You play a four-piece on Tuesday, add a keyboard player on Friday, and do a solo acoustic set on Saturday. Every show is a different stage, different acoustics, different requirements. You’re switching contexts constantly, and your rig needs to stay as adaptable as you are.
Professional touring rigs involve a lot of up-front planning, and are able to be locked down for months at a time. They’re set up and supported by dedicated technicians. You don’t have that luxury. Your setup has to be fast to reconfigure, easy to remember, and hard to mess up.
That’s what we build for…
Our philosophy
We don’t ask you to join “our system.” We design our products to fit into yours.
Tools, not toys
We adore musical “toys” as much as the next gear-geek 🤓 The sound-shaping gear that sparks new ideas (or even entire songs!), and becomes an essential part of your musical voice. But they’re not the things we make.
Musology builds tools: the unglamorous stuff that handles things like signal routing, levels, and control. Ours may not be the shiniest things on your ’board, but they’re the ones that let you forget about your rig, so you can remain in the moment.
Because when you’re on stage and the room is with you… that’s where the magic lives. That moment of connection—between you and your audience, through your art—is what it’s all about.
Music, especially live music, has the ability to lift us up to our higher selves. In the collective moment of a performance, people are united by [it]. Music, of all the creative forms, best repairs the heart. This may be its actual purpose. It is within music that the ameliorating spirit is most vibrant.
, in Faith, Hope and Carnage
Our goal is to remove the distractions, frustrations, and quiet fears that pull you out of those moments. We don’t want you worrying whether the next cue will fire. We don’t want you faffing with settings between songs while the crowd is totally vibing!
We want you there, fully present, making the thing that “repairs the heart”—music.
That’s how we see our job.
Modular, not monolithic
Musology’s products sit at “junction points” in your signal chain—where applying a small amount of digital smarts yields outsized value.
Whether it’s balancing multiple instruments, reconfiguring loops without rewiring, or providing crystal-clear visual feedback as to what’s happening right now, in the heat of a show—every tool is designed to reduce stress and keep the creative flow alive.
We’re not trying to build an “all-or-nothing” ecosystem. Each product stands alone—adopt what you need, if and when you need it.
Clarity, not complexity
Modern gear builders often treat a screen and on-device controls as an opportunity to cram rafts of features into a product. Chasing the longest spec sheet seems essential to compete in an ever-crowded marketplace. Moar is more!!
Menus upon menus, a bazillion on-device controls—always visible, always demanding your attention—even if you only need them a fraction of the time. The power is there, but so is the cognitive load.
That’s not how we think…
To be clear, we don’t hold back on capability. But we do think hard about what is helpful for you to see, when, and how. Immediate clarity and confidence when you’re playing. Full flexibility and detail when you’re planning. All the geeky details are there when you want them—but invisible when you don’t.
Designed for context
We design our interfaces around where you are in your creative process—not everything visible and available all at once.
Live Performance
Essential. Glanceable. Tactile.
In the heat of a show, you’re focus should be on playing music, not fiddle-faddling with your gear. Our live interfaces are minimal and tactile: footswitches, LEDs, and clear visual feedback for the stuff that matters on stage, so you never have to second-guess what’s happening, or what’s coming up next.
Rehearsal
On-device options. Fast access. Tweak & refine.
In the shed with the band, you need to iterate quickly. On-device touchscreens and physical controls let you tweak EQs or reroute signals on the fly—no laptop required, no menu-diving. Not everything at once, just the top layer of detail you need to refine your setup before the show.
Deep Dive
Full access. Precision control. Room to think.
Our companion apps expose the full flexibility of the hardware—on a larger screen with precision inputs, where complex routing and detailed presets become manageable rather than frustrating. Your device stays connected, so you can test ideas on the board as you plan.
The unifying thread
Musology’s name came from blending “music” and “technology”. But it’s come to represent a way of thinking:
Analog soul.
Digital smarts.
Your sound.