Modern Effects Inspired by Vintage Tones
Triungulo Lab is Will Galluccio's small workshop in Italy. Since 2017 he has taken apart, measured and rebuilt the rare circuits behind some of guitar's most recognizable tones, then made them smarter, quieter, smaller and ready for modern pedalboards.
Explore The GearIt Started With a Riff
Will was fourteen when his world started falling apart. One by one his friends drifted away. His family was struggling to make ends meet, and his grandfather was fighting a cancer nobody could stop. For four years Will faced it mostly alone, and nothing seemed to mean anything anymore.
Then one day a Red Hot Chili Peppers song came on the radio, and for the first time in a long while he felt something like relief. He went looking for every song and every album he could find. When he reached “Snow”, its hypnotic riff stopped him cold: he could barely tell it was a guitar. That was the moment he knew what he wanted to do. A summer job paid for his first cheap Squier Strat.
With that guitar in his hands, Will started learning John Frusciante's songs one by one. The closer he got, the clearer it became that the guitar was only the beginning. John's sound also lived in his amplifiers and in a long chain of pedals: vintage chorus units, Moog filters and rare fuzzes that a teenager with no money could never afford. So Will tried to build them himself, and at first nothing he built worked. He taught himself electronics, opened up every pedal he owned and kept building and failing, many many times, until things finally started working.
Triungulo Lab grew out of those years: a huge commitment, and the wish to put the sounds he was chasing within reach of players like him, the ones who hear a tone in their head but can't afford or find the real gear behind it.
Measured, Not Guessed
Our circuits start with original units on the bench, not with schematics found online. For Barbanera, Will spent 12 months taking a Moog MF-101 apart piece by piece to redraw it, then added an LFO section the original never had. For the CE-1, countless original units were analysed, and each value noted one by one from the best sounding units.
Some details only appear when you go this deep. On the WH-X, modern wah potentiometers don't match the curve of the vintage ones, so we had faithful reproductions made with a hi-fi potentiometer factory. Every unit is then calibrated by hand to its exact heel and toe frequencies.
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Why it takes time
There's no warehouse and no assembly line. Every unit is built on request at our bench in Contrada, Italy, then calibrated and ear-tested before it ships. Some parts are hand-sorted one by one, and some builds take more than a dozen hours. We would rather make you wait than ship something we're not proud of, and we'll keep you updated while your build is on the bench.
Discover The CatalogProfessional Engineering
Will Galluccio works full-time as Hardware Designer Electronic Engineer for the european defense industry. The same standards are applied even on simpler guitar pedal designs.
Rare Original Parts
Always sourcing rare New Old Stock transistors or ICs, to guarantee the same feeling as if you were in the 60-80's. When the tone depends on them, we use them.
Built to Gig
We only use the best brands components like Neutrik jacks, and Alpha pots. We engineer our products to endure decades of touring abuse.
Handmade in Italy
Designed, built, and voiced in Italy, preserving old-world artisan dedication with modern rigorous engineering approach.
BEFORE IT WAS A TREND
Triungulo Lab released its first CE-1 preamp pedal in 2017, when recreating Frusciante's gear was a niche passion, not a product category.
In October 2017 the Ensemble Crunch found its way onto Josh Klinghoffer's pedalboard. Since then the line has grown to include the Chorus Ensemble, Barbanera, JF Fuzz, Scar Fuzz, WH-X and the Major amp. Each one exists because Will wanted it for his own playing first.
Triungulo Lab is an independent builder and is not affiliated with John Frusciante or Red Hot Chili Peppers.
"My goal is to build modern effects inspired by vintage tones."
ANALOG, WHERE IT COUNTS
Analog signal paths built for touch and harmonic richness. Where digital helps, it shapes the sound without replacing it.
MODERN USABILITY
Lower noise, standard 9V power, pedalboard-friendly sizes and useful controls.
STRAIGHT TO THE BUILDER
You deal directly with the person who designs and builds your pedal. Each unit is tested, calibrated and packed by Will himself.
WILL & VIVIANA
Triungulo Lab started as a one-man project, and for years Will did everything himself. That changed when Viviana, his partner, started lending a hand around 2020.
She has been part of the workshop ever since, helping wherever it needs her and keeping things running while Will is deep in a circuit. Every pedal still passes through Will's hands, but Triungulo Lab is now a story written by two people.
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Ready For Vintage Tone?
Each unit is produced on request to maintain our uncompromising high standards. Reserve your build or get in touch.