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Expression_pedal

Sonuus

Sonuus is a UK company, founded by a team with a strong background in digital signal processing and music technology, which focuses on creating innovative music products. Their expertise spans from algorithm development for major audio companies to creating novel musical instruments. Sonuus' technology is rooted in advanced signal processing, ensuring their products, like guitar-to-MIDI converters, are highly responsive and precise. Their guitar-related products include wah & volume pedals as well as guitar to MIDI converters and apps.

Source: Sonuus website (13 March 2024)

Lehle

Burkhard Georg Lehle, the founder of Lehle, combined his passions for music and technology to develop innovative effects splitters and switchers. Starting with guitar modifications at 13, Lehle's journey through music and physics studies led to a workshop in Duisburg, focusing on electric guitar and amp repairs. Identifying a need for reliable, noise-free switchers, Lehle developed his first A/B and A/B/C switchers in 1999, setting industry standards with hand-soldered, relay-based designs. The company evolved to produce its transformers, crucial for high-impedance signal integrity, and collaborated with designers and specialists to expand its product range, including the unique Lehle True Sound Technology and versatile audio solutions.

Source: Lehle website (11 March 2024)

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 Gizmotron. Musitronics became the Gizmotron manufacturer. The Gizmotron proved difficult to make and was temporamental in use. The Gizmotron used mechanical plastic parts but none of the Musitronics staff were experts in engineering plastics. For example they found that that units made during the winter wouldn't work properly in hot weather.

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 generation of digital amps and effects. Since then the company has expanded its product range, with the first programmable multi-expression controller, the first stereo full range active speaker for modeling devices, and other innovative devices for musicians. In 2015 they acquired the Stagecraft company with its factory in St. Louis which now builds speaker and amp cabinets for Mission and many other boutique amp designers. As well as producing expression pedals and speaker cabinets Mission Engineering Services works with other companies (like Line 6, Avid, Eventide, Kemper, Pigtronix, RJM and Mu-Fx) to help them design and manufacture expression pedals, effects pedals, amplifiers, audio interfaces, cables and speakers

Gamechanger Audio

GAMECHANGER AUDIO was started in 2015 by Ilja Krumins, Kristaps Kalva, Martins Melkis and Didzis Dubovskis. Their first project was to create a sustain and sostenuto pedal for all musical instruments. The first prototype of the PLUS Pedal was completed in December 2016. The following year, the PLUS Pedal was brought to life through a successful crowdfunding campaign, and it became widely available in 2018. Their next project was the revolutionary PLASMA Pedal. The PLASMA was also successfully crowdfunded, and manufacturing began in the Autumn of 2018. Since then, they have gone on to develop the MOTOR Synth, the LIGHT Pedal, three additional variations on the PLASMA Tube circuit, and most recently the BIGSBY Pedal. Their research and manufacturing base is in Riga, Latvia.

Source: Gamechanger Audio website (22 March 2022)

Chase Bliss Audio

Chase Bliss Audio was founded in 2013 in Minnesota by Joel Korte. Korte was a qualified electrical engineer who quit his corporate job in 2008 to go and work at ZVEX Effects. He carried on working at ZVEX while studying for a postgraduate degree in Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences. Having completed his postgrad degree in 2013 he decided to strike out on his own and founded Chase Bliss Audio. He named the company in honor of his brother Chase who was killed in 2007 after his car was struck by a drunk driver; and a favorite quote of Chase's, "Follow Your Bliss" by Joseph Campbell. His goal is to give unprecedented digital control to original and creative analog designs that are designed and made in the USA.

Source: Chase Bliss Audio website (21 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.

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)

AMT

AMT (Asia Music Technology) was the brand name used by AMT Electronics from 1991 until 2001. The company has its origins in Russia in 1982 when Sergie Marichev began building effects pedals, and then eventually electronic drum kits, and even MIDI instruments. In 1987, when private enterprise was permitted in Russia, Marichev launched his Asia company. In 1991 it was renamed Asia Music Technology company (AMT) and it was renamed again in 2001 to AMT Electronics.

There is also an AMT classical guitar brand - made in Asia. It is unclear whether this is related to AMT Electronics or not.

Source: AMT Electronics website (13 February 2022)

Truetone

Truetone was a guitar brand of the Western Auto mail order company in the 1960s with instruments made by the big Chicago factories such as Kay. Circa 2021 Trutone is an effects brand founded by Bob Weil - initially as Visual Sound, in 1995. The brand was renamed Truetone in 2015.

Source: Truetone website (24 March 2021)

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