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Damage Control

Damage Control Engineering was founded in 2004 by four ex Line 6 employees: Pete Celi (embedded systems expert), Gregg Stock (analog engineer), Lucian Tu (industrial designer) and Dave Fruehling (embedded systems expert). Their first products were a line of four tube-driven distortion units: first the Demonizer and Womanizer and, later, Liquid Blues and Solid Metal.  Dave and Pete designed some more intensive DSP-driven pedals also incorporating tubes known as TimeLine and Glass Nexus.  Although the pedals got great reviews, sales did not take off, and the team increasingly spent time consulting for other firms instead of working on new Damage Control pedals. Lucian Tu left the team, but a colleague Terry Burton who had been working independently in the Damage Control offices came up with the Strymon brand name.

Strymon

Damage Control Engineering was founded in 2004 by Pete Celi, Gregg Stock and Dave Fruehling, their first products were a line of tube-driven effects pedals. In 2009 they began to develop effects under the Strymon brand name. With models like the OB.1, a simple clean compressor and boost, and the Lex, a small power-house rotary pedal, to BigSky reverb and Timeline delay, Strymon has established itself as a leading guitar effects brand.

Source: Strymon Effects Pedals website (16 February 2022)

Jam Pedals

Jam Pedals is a guitar & bass effects company located in Athens, Greece. It was founded by Jannis Anastasakis around 2007. Jam was initially as a one man operation but now has a small workforce who hand-make, hand-paint and meticulously inspect each pedal before shipping. They also have a custom shop offering point-to-point wiring, limited runs, cross-genre and cross-medium artwork applications.

Source: Jam Pedals website (14 February 2022)

Gurus

The Gurus brand was founded in Italy in 2013 by Guglielmo Cicognani. GURUS started with a small range of pedal effects and tube amplifiers - the amps could interface with smartphones, tablets and PCs. In 2014 the Gurus SRL company was formed with 2 new partners: Chicco Bellini and Alberto Pagani. The company focus shifted more to effects pedals and accessories.Cicognani left the company in 2017 (around the time of the Foxgear launch which moved GURUS production to China) - to focus on continuing to make effects and amplifiers in Italy.

Source: Guglielmo Cicognani website (14 February 2022)

Fulltone

Michael Fuller started Fulltone around 1991 while working as a Session Guitarist, a Composer, Performer, and Electronic Tinkerer. People started calling him asking for his effects pedals after he was featured in Guitar Player Magazine as one of the winners of their "Ultimate Guitarist Competition" competition. Fulltone effects use True Bypass switching or their exclusive "Enhanced Bypass TM" (OCD V2, WahFull) with L.E.D. status indicator in all their pedals. Fuller also provided these bypass switches to other pedal makers. All Fulltone pedals were designed, hand-built & tested at their shop in Southern California.

Fulltone closed their California factory in 2022 when Fuller admitted it had become unprofitable. He planned to move to a large ranch near Nashville with a recording studio and make use of his large collection of vintage guitars.

Source: Fulltone website (14 February 2022)

Eventide

Eventide was founded in 1970 by Steve Katz, Richard Factor and Orville Greene. Their first product was a tape search unit for the Ampex MM1000 multitrack recorder. They then developed a digital delay line with possibly the first use of RAM in an audio product - with a optional pitch changer. Their first widespread success was the H910 Harmonizer - developed in 1973. Their family of Harmonizers became the industry standard. Eventually they squeezed their legendary effects into the effects pedal format including the TimeFactor, PitchFactor, ModFactor and Space units. In 2015 they launched the Eventide H9 multieffects unit, which combined their delay, pitch, modulation, and reverb algorithms into a single enclosure with new saturation effects.

Source: Eventide website (13 February 2022)

Empress

Empress Effects Inc. is a guitar and bass effects company based in Ottawa, Ontario. The company was founded by Steve Bragg and their effects are renowned for sophisticated digital control, preset storage and MIDI integration with analog technology. Empress Effects started in 2005, after Bragg had graduated from  Queens University with a degree in electrical engineering. His friend commissioned a tremolo effects unit with a unique set of features. By the time he had made it his friend no-longer needed it but Steve sold it at a local used instruments store. The store liked it so much that they ordered 10 more and Empress Effects was born.

Source: Empress Effects website (13 February 2022)

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