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Alexander
Alexander effects pedals are made in Garner, North Carolina. Founded in 2015, Alexander Pedals are designed by Matthew Farrow and a small group of collaborators. Farrow has been building guitar pedals...
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Pharaoh Amplifiers
Pharaoh Amplifiers was founded by Matthew Farrow as a maker of guitar effects and accessories. The company started in the late 1990s and their first offering was the CLASS-A BOOST pedal sold direct to...
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Landlord FX
Landlord FX is a compact guitar effects pedal brand launched by Gap Distribution Ltd in the UK in 2020.Source: Landlord FX website (14 March 2022)
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Milkman
Milkman Sound amplifiers are hand made in San Francisco. Tim Marcus has been making boutique amps in San Francisco since 2006 and launched Milkman Sound in 2011. As a pedal steel player, Marcus...
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Meris
Meris makes effects pedals and 500 series modules. Meris was founded by Terry Burton, a hardware and software engineer who previously worked for Line 6 and also founded Strymon.Source: Meris website...
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John Cruz
John Cruz founded his own brand of guitars: John Cruz Custom Guitars in 2020. Cruz was a master builder for the Fender Custom Shop and had worked for Fender for 33 years but he left in 2020.Source:...
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Mission Engineering
Mission Engineering was established in 2009 in a garage in Petaluma, California. One of their first products was the Mission SP-1, the first switching expression pedal designed to work with the new...
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MUSITRONICS
Aaron Newman and Mike Beigel founded musitronics and launched the popular Mu-Tron pedal series in 1972. In 1976-1977 musicians Lol Creme and Kevin Godley from 10CC developed a guitar sustainer, the...
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Mu-Tron
Aaron Newman and Mike Beigel founded Musitronics and launched the popular Mu-Tron pedal series in 1972. In 1976-1977 musicians Lol Creme and Kevin Godley from 10CC developed a guitar sustainer, the...
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RYRA
Rock Your Repaired Amps (RYRA) is the brand name of amp and effects pedal maker Shane Logan. Logan began making The Klone overdrive pedal in 2014 - out of a desire to try the famous Klon Centaur pedal...
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Dunable
Dunable Guitars was founded by Sacha Dunable, the guitarist and singer of prog-metal band Intronaut. Dunable has been making guitars since 2011: he started out in his garage and by 2014 he was able to...
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Spaceman
Spaceman Effects was founded 2009 by Zachary Martin in Portland, as a hand made effects pedal company. Spaceman Limited Edition pedals are still hand made but they now offer more affordable mass...
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Disaster Area Designs
Disaster Area Designs make a range of MIDI controllers, switching systems designed to give you control over your guitar pedals and make your pedal board easier to manage. The company was founded by...
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Analog Alien
Analog Alien is a boutique guitar effects company established in 2010 by brothers Joe and Jack Napoli (Cloud 9 Recording Inc.). They got started in effects pedal building through first modifying some...
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Benson (amps)
Benson Amps was founded by Christopher Benson, in Portland, Oregon (the company was incorporated in 2012). They make tube amplifiers, tube reverb units and guitar effects pedals.Source: Benson Amps...
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BMF Effects
BMF Effects is a hand made effects pedals company founded in 2005 in Southern California by Scott Kiraly. All BMF Effects pedals feature custom made steel enclosures, industrial grade powder coating...
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ROTOSOUND
Rotosound was originated by James How in 1958 in the United Kingdom. James How designed his own string winding machine and began manufacturing guitar strings in his shed. Originally he called the...
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JMI
Tom Jennings founded his UK firm in 1957 and found success with the introduction of the Vox AC15 and AC30 tube guitar amplifiers. Jennings Musical Industries was re launched in In 1997, by Richard and...
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