Discomfort Designs

Discomfort Designs is a one-person boutique pedal company based in Tucson, Arizona, creating unconventional effects for musicians looking to explore sounds beyond the familiar. Rather than revisiting traditional circuits, Discomfort Designs focuses on experimental audio tools built around movement, unpredictability and creative exploration. From warped loops and unusual delays to modulation, filtering and distortion, each pedal is designed to encourage experimentation and unexpected discoveries. Pedals like the Iceland Spar, Phantom Limb, Riemann's Grave and My Continuing Battle with the Queasy Feels blur the lines between traditional effect categories, combining looping, modulation, filtering, pitch manipulation, distortion and other forms of sonic experimentation into unique creative tools. Every Discomfort Designs pedal is hand built in small batches in Tucson, with a focus on originality and creativity, resulting in effects that feel like unique musical instruments in their own right.