Where this started.

Signal Path is a small audio-hardware shop in Kaohsiung. We build instruments you control with your hands, not through a screen.

It started with a stubborn preference. Most modern gear hides its controls behind menus and encoders — values you can't see, positions you can't feel. We wanted the opposite: real potentiometers, real switches, knobs that stay exactly where you left them.

So we make the hardware ourselves, in small batches, by the same people who design the boards and write the firmware. The first is Knobster — a bare-board USB MIDI controller you can reprogram down to the firmware. Next is Georgetown, a discrete analog microphone preamp — a faithful recreation of a broadcast classic, with DAW recall over USB MIDI.

You can't see sound. So we build instruments you can feel.

This page will grow into the longer story — how the parts get chosen, what gets done by hand, who's behind it. For now: a small shop, real components, made on purpose.