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Loco

Loco Amplifiers and LocoBox Effects were Aria brand names. The pedals were handmade (from the late 1970s onwards) by a small team in Urawa, in Saitama, Japan who sold their pedals to Aria,  Although the main brand name was Locobox, they also produced identical pedals under different brand names including: Electra, Volz, Nadines, Cutec, Pearl, Gig, Powervoice, Studio Series and even a few Yamaha pedals.The company was then aquired by Aria who started producing Loco amplifiers as well.

Source: Loco and LocoBox catalogs 1981.

Source: Jaimie Muehlhausen's Unofficial LocoBox website (archived 2006)

Legend (amps)

Legend Musical Instruments Inc made hybrid guitar amplifiers in Syracuse, New York from around 1978 to 1985. These amps had a tube preamp and solid state power amp - and were very loud! Around 7000 were built in total.

Source: Legend Amplifiers catalogs (1981 to 1984)

JOYO

JOYO TECHNOLOGY is a Chinese company specializing in R&D, manufacturing and marketing digital products for music education. There are two brands under JOYO TECH: JOYO and Dr. J. Their main products include: Effects Pedals, Guitar Amplifiers, Tube Amplifiers, Rock House, Metronomes, Tuners, EQ systems, Drum Practice Pads, Pedal Controllers, Synthesizers, E-Erhus, Wireless Systems, Audio Cables, and Portable Power Supplies.

Source: JOYO website (1 November 2017)

Jennings (Electronics Industries)

The Jennings Organ Company was founded in Dartford, Kent by Thomas Walter Jennings following the Second World War. Initially Jennings' main product was the Univox electronic keyboard. The company was renamed Jennings Musical Industries (JMI) in 1958 as they began to offer other musical equipment. 1958 saw the launch of the Vox AC15 amplifier followed in 1959 by the Vox AC30. In 1964, to raise capital for JMI's expansion, Tom Jennings sold his controlling interest to the Royston Group, a British holding company, and the American rights to the Thomas Organ Company. 

BluGuitar

BluGuitar was established in 2014 by German guitarist Thomas Blug. In addition to his career as a top guitarist Blug has been an electronics enthusiast since childhood. Blug worked as a sound designer and co-developer of guitar amps, effects equipment and guitars for more than 25 years in cooperation with well-known manufacturers like Hughes and Kettner. BluGuitar's first product offering was the BluGuitar AMP1 -  introduced in 2016 as a portable NANOTUBE 100-watt power amp  designed for professional use onstage and in the studio. Since then BluGuitar have added speaker cabinets, the BluBox speaker emulator and a limited edition of 61 Thomas Blug signature stratocasters to the product line up.

Source; BluGuitar website

Guitar Research

Guitar Research is a Sam Ash Music house brand. Guitar Research archtop guitars were made in Korea by Peerless. I have only found the JX17 Eddie Durham model so far. Guitar Research amplifiers seem more common - these are made in China and often have a distinctive red tolex covering. This is also a range of accessories like guitar gig-bags.

EMC

The Electronic Music Corporation (EMC) of Cleveland, Ohio made guitar and PA amplifiers, as well as sound system consoles and speaker cabinets. From 1968 onwards EMC used transistors in their amplifiers instead of vacuum tubes - so these were solid-state amplifiers. In 1969 EMC introduced the first plug-in power module - if these failed then they could be easily swapped out by anyone with a screwdriver. Three interchangeable modules covered the 51 EMC amp models.

EMC went on to become Audiotronix out of Mentor Ohio, then became BFI (Bull Frog Incorporated). They then became Soundtech out of Elkhart Indiana. (Source: John who worked for them as a Technician from early to late 1980s).

Source: EMC catalogs 1971 - 1974

Earth

Earth Sound Research bass and guitar amplifiers were made by Instrument Systems Audio Corp based in Farmingdale, New York, first introduced in 1972. They were a division of Benjamin Electronic Sound Corp, and also made PA mixers/power amps, keyboards and stand alone reverb units (solidstate) as well as distortion and volume pedals. The early Earth tube amplifiers were based on Fender designs with later solid state ones were based on Peavey designs.

The Earth Amplifiers brand was revived by a Netherlands boutique amplifier manufacturer, which circa 2017 offered handcrafted guitar amplifiers, effects and cabinets.

Source: Earth Sound Research amplifiers catalog 1972-1975

Source: Earth Sound Research amplifiers at Pedal Heaven (4 April 2017)

Source: Earth Amplifiers website (4 April 2017)

Supro

The Supro brand name was introduced in the 1930s by the Valco company who made a range of Supro amplifiers, electric, acoustic & lap steel guitars as well as a range of accessories. Valco merged with Kay Musical Instrument Company in 1967, but this new company quickly went out of business in 1968 and the Supro brand was discontinued.

In 2013 Absara Audio LLC, owner of analog effect brand Pigtronix, aquired the Supro trademark from former Fender amp designer and Pigtronix associate, Bruce Zinky who was retained as a design engineer. They built a new factory in Port Jefferson Station, NY to make a line of USA-made, vintage-inspired Supro tube amplifiers.  As well as the new range of amplifiers they also introduced a new series of Supro electric guitars and effects pedals.

Source: Supro catalogs - 1948 to 1968

Source: Supro website (15 March 2017)

Diaz

César Carrillo Díaz was born in Puerto Rico was playing guitar by age six. He moved to the USA in 1969 (aged 18) where he played guitar with Johnny Nash before joining Frijid Pink.  During the seventies, César was involved in the developing market for vintage tube amplifiers and became known as "The Amp Doctor" for his tube-amp restoration skills. He found and restored numerous vintage tube amps. His skills brought him into contact with some of the great guitarists of the era, including the unsigned Stevie Ray Vaughan, who  César supplied him with amplifiers and cabinets in 1979. As the 1980s rolled by César was a technical advisor to Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Bob Dylan. César even played around 50 dates as Dylan's guitarist. 

Darius

Darius amplifiers were made in the 1970s by Arc Musical Instruments, a division of Ahed - a Canadian company owned by Phil G. Anderson. Ahed was established in 1969 and became the Eco Corporation in 1978. There was a complete range of Darius amplifiers and PA systems ranging in price from $40 to $600 (in 1972). The Darius guitar and bass amp heads are immediately recognisable by their bright colored face plates - the 1000 series had orange face-plates and the 2000 series had lime green.

Source: Darius catalog 1972

Source: Ahed wiki page (8 March 2017)

 

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