Jackson Audio is a guitar effects company founded in 2017 by Brad Jackson & Juan Kyle from Jackson Ampworks and Nigel Hendroff from Hillsong Church in Sydney Australia.

Source: Jackson Audio website (13 November 2023)

Yerasov Music Corporation was founded by Alexander Yerasov in 1988. Yerasov was born in 1953 in the Soviet Union and started out by building tube amplifiers using parts from broken sound equipment from movie theaters. When Perestroika happened in the Soviet Union, Yerasov took the opportunity to launch his own company and hired a talented group of engineers to design and make his products. Yerasov is now a well known amplifier and effects brand worldwide.

Source: Yerasov Music Corporation website (11 July 2023)

Messiah Guitars specialize in unique relic guitars featuring tops made out of reclaimed cigar boxes. Most of them have hand-wound pickups made by Rob Timmons at Arcane, Inc. Their guitars are made to order. You decide if you want them to make design decisions or if you want to be involved in every step of the build. Messiah also make custom hand-wired tube amplifiers and guitar pedals. Some finished models are available directly from Messiah, or at Impulse Music Company in Canyon Country, CA. The company was founded by Tom Hejda.

Source: Messiah Guitars website (29 November 2023)

Kurt Ballou founded God City Instruments (GCI) in 2011. Ballou  is the owner of God City Recording Studio owner as well as the guitarist for Converge. He started off making guitars and snare drums for himself and his friends but it took until 2016 for the first commercial GCI product release. This was the Brutalist Jr. DIY PCB distortion pedal- initially designed as a business card for the studio. This was a huge success and spurred Kurt on to design more effects pedals including the SBD Fuzz, the Medicine Boost and the Riffchild. Small runs of the pedals were made in the studio basement and sold online via the GCI Reverb shop. The full scale commercial launch of GCI was in 2019 and now the product range includes guitars, basses, effects and you can still get the DIY effects PCBs that started it all.

Source: God City Instruments website (23 September 2022)

Lyman Guitar Company was founded in 2017 by Art Tantiyawarong and Sophia Woods . Art & Sophia initially ran a music store Yellow Mama Music in Lyman, South Carolina. In 2017 in collaboration with Thai Musical Instrument Distributor Bank they established BAS Industries (Bank, Art & Sophia) a musical instrument distributor selling various brands. They launched Lyman amplifiers in 2018 soon followed by the Lyman CS (Custom Shop) range of electric guitars. In 2019 Lyman Guitar Co. and TYMA Guitars entered into an exclusive partnership (Tyma by Lyman) to expand the Lyman acoustic line while introducing the TYMA name to the United States. In 2020 Lyman introduced a line of more affordable imported guitars.

Source: Five Minutes with Lyman Guitar Co.'s Staff. Music & Sound Retailer August 2021, Vol 38 No 8

Sioux Guitars is a guitar effects and amplifiers company founded by Ryan Mayers in Sioux City, Iowa.

Source: Sioux Guitars website (25 April 2022)

Xvive was founded in 2014 (as Xvive Audio) by the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Lee and Fischer Mao. Their first product was to resurrect the MN3005 bucket brigade chip. Soon followed a line of effect pedals in collaboration with German guitarist Thomas Blug. These included the W3 Memory Analog Delay—designed by Howard Davis (designer of the legendary Deluxe Memory Man) and including the new MN3005 chip. In 2016, Xvive entered the wireless market with the U2 Guitar Wireless System. This paved the way for other wireless systems, designed for microphones (U3), in-ear monitors (U4), MIDI (MD1) and audio for video (U5). Xvive products are manufactured in Shenzhen, China - where they also make products for other top music brands. 2020-2021 saw the release of the P1 Portable Phantom Power Supply, the MD1 MIDI Wireless System, and the U5 Wireless Audio for Video System.

Source: Xvive website (1 May 2022)

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 go full time as a guitar builder. Dunable USA Custom Shop instruments and pickups are still built in Southern California by a small team of 6-7 people. There are also mass produced Dunable instruments like the DE series introduced in 2020 which is made in South Korea. They also make effects pedals and previously made amp heads.

Source: Dunable Guitars website (17 March 2022)