Trinity Labs
Harry Brenton, Joel Sharp & Nathan Mabey
Trinity Labs
Harry, Joel and Nathan met playing in a band together whilst studying at University of Leeds. Their shared musical background and mutual interest in the guitar pedal space gave them numerous ideas for their business idea. Particularly their first product together, designed by Harry and Joel before Nathan joined the company.
The Artemis: A hybrid loop switcher, allowing guitarists to integrate analogue pedals alongside digital processing in a compact and modern form factor.
They saw many people using digital profilers for effects as these can all be set up beforehand and digitally controlled, but then they would complain about not being able to use their "real" guitar pedals and usually these profilers would have set them back over £1,000.
"Our entire goal is to make a platform that can integrate those digital effects within an analogue signal path; this makes sure that you can digitally automate your pedal board without the fuss of rewiring for hours every time you want to swap an effect around." – Joel
Over the last year, they have built and tested multiple hardware revisions, developed the software platform, grown an online audience, and proved early market demand through hundreds of comments, waitlist signups and direct interest from guitarists before launch. Trinity Labs have also secured early pre-seed funding, allowing them to prepare for an initial batch of Artemis units and start building a small founding customer base.
Trinity Labs were shortlisted and chosen as one of six Spark supported businesses to present for this year's Sir Peter Thompson Award and received the prestigious award which included £5,000 of funding.
"We presented a prototype of the Artemis to the Spark team for the Sir Peter Thompson award, which impressed them enough to award us this prestigious prize - for which we are humbly grateful." – Nathan
These vital funds will be used to scale their marketing channels, key components such as the touch screens, PCBs, and enclosures and help push the initial Artemis units out to their founding customers scheduled for October.
"What started out as an idea between bandmates a year ago, has turned into a full-time job for myself. The support from Spark so far has given me the confidence to be able to graduate from the University of Leeds and start a business, knowing help is always available." – Harry
Trinity Labs plan to develop future products and expand into three main branches: analogue effects (Apollo), digital effects (Orion), and hybrid loop switching (Artemis 2), with additional products in the form of low-cost auxiliary components (patch cables, modular expansion pedals, and even products outside of the live audio space).
