Rift Amps

Rift Amplification is a boutique amplifier company founded by Chris Fantana in Brackley, UK. Rift amps and effects are hand-wired by Fantana and Jamie Neath. They also run amp building courses where you can make your own amplifier.

Source: Rift Amplification website (3 February 2023)

Blaxx

Blaxx is a guitar effects brand owned by Brussels based musical instrument distributor EMD Music (owner of Stagg, J.N. Guitars and Angel Lopez brands). The Blaxx brand name was launched around 2016.

Fairfield Circuitry

Fairfield Circuitry is a Canadian guitar effects company founded in 2008. All manufacturing is done in Hull, Québec. Circa 2022 they had a roster of 10 pedals all have the characteristic robust, unpainted Fairfield look: as they say "simplicity intentionally hidden, transparency deliberately shown".

Source: Fairfield Circuitry website (22 March 2022)

Radial

Radial Engineering was founded in 1996 by Peter Janis. Janis had a background in music and pro audio industry having worked for TMI for 10 years before starting his own company. He took over Canadian cable company, Cabletek in 1991 and renamed it JP Cabletek Electronics Ltd. in 1992. JP Cabletek imported various brands including Presonus, Audix Microphones, Hafler, Microtech Gefell, Mogami cables, Jensen Transformers and Sonex acoustical products. Over the next few years the company grew to making custom snakes while Janis decided to expand globally. He chose a company name that could be easily translated into many languages (Radial Engineering) and a logo that represents the inside of a quad cable, in 1996 he launched the first Radial product, the Radial JDI. In 2022 Radial employed over 100 people and produced a range of pro-audio gear including: direct boxes, splitters and audio interfacing devices.

Old Blood Noise Endeavors

Old Blood Noise Endeavors started in a garage by Brady Smith and Seth McCarroll as a handmade guitar effects company. They were based in Norman, Oklahoma from around 2014 but in 2021 the company moved to Oklahoma City to a larger factory to suit their growth as a worldwide exporter of effects.

Source: Old Blood Noise Endeavors website (15 February 2022)

Death by Audio

Death by Audio effects pedals are hand made in Queens, New York. D.B.A. was founded in 2002 by Oliver Ackermann and moved from Virginia to Williamsburg, Brooklyn around 2005. They operated it as a combined effects pedal factory, music venue, recording studio, and live-work space until 2014 when the workshop moved to Queens.

Source: Death by Audio website (13 February 2022)

Caline

Caline Technology is an electronics company based in Shenzhen City, China. Their products include: Effects Pedals,Wah Pedals ,Tuners, Portable Power Supplies, Isolated Power Supplies, Pedal boards, Amplifiers, Guitar Straps & Wireless Audio - sold under the Caline and Scuru brand names.

Source: Caline website (13 February 2022)

BBE

BBE Sound, Inc. is a professional and consumer music technology company, based in California and active since 1985. Their guitar products include effects pedals, software plugins and pre-amps. BBE Sound have owned G&L Guitars since Leo Fender's death in 1991.

Source: BBE Sound website (13 February 2022)

Artec

Artec is a brand name of the Artec Sound Company, Ltd, a Korean maker of guitar electronic products.

Source: Artec website (13 February 2022)

DryBell

In 1996 Zvonko Suhodolcan (Zvonch) started to build amplifiers, guitar pedals and effects for himself, for his friends and for people who wanted small custom designs. . Zvonch started development of the V-1 back in 2009 and when the V-1 was released in 2011, he was producing the V-1 pedals in a very small room at his family home. in 2014 he expanded DryBell and moved to their current workshop in Krapina, Croatia. The company now has a core team of 5 and several other supporting workers.

Amptweaker

Amptweaker was founded by James Brown an amplifier design engineer since 1986. Brown worked for Peavey and then in 2004 moved to work for Kustom Amplification as their chief engineer. In 2011 he left to start Amptweaker where he develops guitar effects pedals. He is also working on prototypes for amps as well.

Source: Amptweaker website 3 March 2020

Boss EQ-200 Graphic Equalizer

The Boss EQ-200 is the most flexible compact EQ ever created for guitar and bass. It features two wide-ranging 10-band EQ channels, plus an onboard graphic display that shows the current EQ curve at a glance.

Boss GE7 7-Band EQ

The GE7 has 7 bands ranging from 100Hz to 6.4kHz, ideal for guitar sounds, with boost/cut of +/- 15dB per band. This lets you completely control your sound and eliminate unwanted feedback, particularly when connected after a distortion effect.

Walrus Audio

Walrus Audio is a US boutique guitar effects company who take pride in their unique desgins. The company was established by a group of friends in 2011 and is based in Oklahoma City. Over the years, the Walrus product line has expanded to include more than a dozen effects pedals. Each pedal design has unique artwork on the enclosure which tries to capture the essence of that pedal. The artwork is created by Oklahoma artist and musician Nathan Price who uses stylistic inspiration from classically animated films. Walrus make a wide range of effects. From overdrives and fuzzes to delays, reverbs, modulations and octavers, they have a lot of variety on offer. Walrus pedals are individually built by hand.

Source: Walrus Audio website (4 November 2019)

Whirlwind

Whirlwind is a US pro-audio & broadcast equipment company, founded in 1975 by Michael Laiacona (who cofounded MXR a few years earlier). Its head office is located in Rochester, New York.

Source: Whirlwind USA website (16 October 2019)

EarthQuaker Devices

EarthQuaker Devices was founded in 2004 by Jamie Stillman in Kent, Ohio. Stillman was a musician who began designing effects pedals after repairing his broken overdrive pedal. The first EarthQuaker production model was the Hoof Fuzz, released in 2007. Up to that point EarthQuaker was a one-man enterprise but the success of the Hoof meant Stillman was able to hire employees and concentrate more on designing new effects. At this point Stillman was operating a 9-person effects factory from his basement in West Akron, Ohio - the range included the Hoof, Grand Orbiter, Disaster Transport, Hummingbird, and Ghost Echo pedals. They moved out of the basement in 2011 and then again in 2015 into a two story factory employing 53 people making over 40 effects products.

Source: EarthQuaker Devices website (13 October 2019)

Source Audio

Source Audio was founded in 2005 by former executives of Analog Devices, Inc., Thomas H, Lee Partners, and Kurzweil, Their mission was to bring innovation to the audio effects world through the application of cutting edge sensor, networking and signal processing technology. In 2006, Source Audio released its flagship product, the Hot Hand Motion-Sensing Ring. Since that time, Source Audio's delay, reverb, distortion, filter, modulation, equalization, and Hot Hand products have found their way onto the stages and recordings of David Gilmour, U2, David Bowie, John Mayer, Aerosmith, Phish, King Crimson, My Morning Jacket, The Cure, and Victor Wooten to name a few.

Source: Source Audio website (10 October 2019)

OKKO

OKKO-FX make high quality hand made guitar effects pedals, in Leipzig, Germany. Founded by Heiko Lauenroth.

Source: OKKO FX website (15 January 2019)

Vesta Fire

Vesta Fire was a brand name of the Shiino Musical Instrument Corporation (who also used the Vestax brand). Vesta Fire effects were made from around 1982 to the early 1990s. There were Vesta Fire effects pedals as well as a rack mounted modular effects system.

Source: Wikipedia Vestax

Rocktek

Rocktek was a brand name of affordable (plastic) effects pedals and amplifiers. Rocktek was distributed in the USA by D'Andrea Inc. and the the UK by JHS. Rocktek products were available from the 1980s until around 2004.

Source: Rocktek website (archived 2004)

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