RigBench keeps track of every guitar, amp, pedal, and piece of studio gear I own — specs, history, and everything in between — instead of leaving that to scattered notes and memory. It's launching this week.
The itch behind it came straight out of running YSIGIM and keeping a studio full of instruments and outboard gear in working order. Which pickups are in which guitar right now. When a given set of strings went on, and in what gauge and tuning, so a string doesn't get forgotten until it's already dead on stage. What got swapped out of an amp or a pedal, and whether the original part got shelved or sold. What still needs fixing before the next session. None of that lived in one place. Some of it was in notes, most of it was in my head, and the part that was in my head was the part most likely to be wrong exactly when it mattered.
RigBench is the fix: a mobile inventory for guitars, basses, amps, effects, synths, and studio equipment, with full specs and an ownership and component history per item. Replacements get logged with when they happened and what happened to the part they replaced. Strings get tracked per instrument — gauge, tuning, install date — so aging strings show up before they fail instead of after. Maintenance issues get logged directly on the item they belong to, so getting ready for a session means checking one list instead of trying to remember what needed doing.
The data side follows the same instinct that runs through the rest of this site: own your stuff outright. RigBench works fully offline, doesn't collect anything, and doesn't need an account. A collection exports as a plain JSON file, so the data stays mine and stays portable, not locked into whichever app happens to be tracking it this year.
It got built the way most things here get built: me directing as architect, an AI doing the implementation alongside me. I decide what RigBench needs to do and how it should feel to use, and work through the build with AI as the teammate actually writing and iterating on the code. It's the same working model behind the other tools on this site — I stay the one deciding what's right, the AI moves faster than I would alone getting there.