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Luthier Profile

AU Effects

Ashutosh, Founder

Craft
Custom Clone & Modded Pedals
Background
Electronics Engineering
Specialty
High-Gain Distortion, Overdrive, Fuzz
Featured In
TIGA Volume 11

"If it makes you headbang or calms your mind and lets you forget all the chaos around you, then it's a great tone."

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Engineering Emotion Through Analog Circuits

An electronics engineer with a love for distortion, Ashutosh started by cloning legends - a ProCo Rat and a Marshall Guv'nor, wired with DPDT switches into electrical boxes and even plastic tiffin boxes. Seeing boutique prices, he kept building, and AU Effects became his answer to making iconic tone accessible in India.

Today he mods and enhances classic circuits with extra clipping options and reshaped gain stages, housed in lightweight powder-coated aluminium enclosures. It's a family effort - his brother handles 3D printing and his wife runs social media - growing with quality first.

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AU Effects Plumes and OCD dual pedal

"Learn from your failures, don't stop, and keep making things."

Iconic tone, made accessible in India.

AU Effects Charlie pedal
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Gallery

Ashutosh holding two AU Effects pedals
AU Effects Plumes and OCD dual pedal
Early Soul Crusher and Soul Tormentor pedals built in electrical boxes
AU Effects Charlie pedal
Ashutosh holding two AU Effects pedals AU Effects Plumes and OCD dual pedal Early Soul Crusher and Soul Tormentor pedals built in electrical boxes AU Effects Charlie pedal
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TIGA Magazine Volume 11

AU Effects
Featured Article
AU Effects: Engineering Emotion Through Analog Circuits

Ashutosh's Gear Innovator Spotlight is featured in Volume 11 of TIGA Magazine, alongside Ezekiel Bernard.

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