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Effects pedals · Makers
Guitar and bass effects — overdrive, distortion, fuzz, delay, reverb, modulation, and more, in pedal, rack, and multi-effects formats.
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Source Audio
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Source Audio is an American effects pedal manufacturer based in Woburn, Massachusetts, known for its One Series DSP pedals with deep Neuro app and MIDI control, including delay, reverb, and filter effects.
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Fulltone
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Fulltone is an American boutique effects pedal manufacturer founded by Michael Fuller and based in California, best known for the OCD overdrive and the Full-Drive series of analog drive pedals built in the United States.
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JHS Pedals
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
JHS Pedals is an American guitar effects pedal manufacturer founded by Josh Scott and based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its overdrive, fuzz, and modulation pedals and original circuit designs.
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Empress Effects
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Empress Effects is a Canadian effects pedal manufacturer based in Ottawa, Ontario, known for its high-fidelity, deeply programmable delay, reverb, and modulation pedals with MIDI and SD-card updates.
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EarthQuaker Devices
Models: 6 · Sources: 2
EarthQuaker Devices is an American maker of guitar effects pedals based in Akron, Ohio, hand-building a wide range of overdrive, modulation, and delay effects.
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Dunlop
Categories: 1 · Models: 1
Dunlop Manufacturing (Jim Dunlop) is an American musical-products company founded in 1965 by Jim Dunlop Sr. and based in Benicia, California. Starting with guitar picks and accessories, it grew into a major maker of effects pedals and is best known as the home of the Cry Baby wah, the most iconic wah pedal in music. Dunlop also owns the MXR and Way Huge pedal brands.
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Boss
Models: 11 · Categories: 1
Boss is a brand of guitar and bass effects pedals, multi-effects processors, tuners, and loopers, operated as a division of Japan's Roland Corporation. Boss is best known for its rugged, color-coded compact pedal format, which launched in 1977 and has grown to more than 140 compact pedal models. Long-running staples include the DS-1 Distortion, SD-1 Super Overdrive, and BD-2 Blues Driver, alongside digital delay, reverb, chorus, and the GT-series multi-effects line.
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Ibanez
Models: 22 · Categories: 3
Ibanez is a Japanese guitar brand established in 1929 and produced by Hoshino Gakki. It is widely known for electric guitars and basses, particularly fast-necked models favored in rock and metal.
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Electro-Harmonix
Models: 12 · Categories: 1
Electro-Harmonix (EHX) is an American maker of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass, founded by Mike Matthews in 1968 in New York City. An early pioneer of affordable stompbox design, the company is best known for the Big Muff Pi fuzz, along with influential models such as the Small Stone phaser, Memory Man delay, and Electric Mistress flanger. After closing in 1984, the brand was revived in the 1990s and continues to design and build a broad pedal range in New York.
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Klon
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Klon is a boutique guitar pedal maker founded by Bill Finnegan, known for the Centaur overdrive (built 1994-2008) that popularized the transparent overdrive, and its current KTR reissue.
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Strymon
Models: 5 · Categories: 1
Strymon is an American effects pedal maker based in the USA and a division of Damage Control Engineering, which launched in 2004. Founded by engineers Pete Celi, Gregg Stock, and Dave Fruehling, Strymon began in 2009 and is known for studio-class, DSP-driven pedals such as the TimeLine delay, BigSky reverb, and Mobius modulation. The company designs and builds its products in the USA, with a focus on high-end sound quality and ease of use.
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TC Electronic
Models: 4 · Categories: 1
TC Electronic is a Danish audio company founded in 1976 by brothers Kim and John Rishoj. It builds guitar and bass effects, studio and live-sound processors, and audio software, and is known for its SCF chorus, the TC2290 delay, and its TonePrint-enabled stompbox line. Since 2015 the company has been part of the Music Tribe group.
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Eventide
Models: 3 · Categories: 2
Eventide is an American manufacturer of professional audio effects processors, founded in 1971 in New York. The company is best known for its Harmonizer series of pitch-shifting and multi-effects units, which became essential studio tools. Eventide processors have been used on countless major recordings and remain in production and active development.
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MXR
Models: 5 · Categories: 1
MXR is an American effects pedal brand founded by Keith Barr and Terry Sherwood in Rochester, New York, in the early 1970s. Its early stompboxes — the Phase 90, Distortion+, Dyna Comp, and Blue Box — brought studio-quality effects to guitarists in rugged, simple enclosures and became stage and studio standards. After MXR ceased operations in the 1980s, Jim Dunlop acquired the brand, reissued the original pedals, and added modern classics such as the Carbon Copy analog delay.
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Wampler Pedals
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Wampler Pedals is an American guitar effects pedal manufacturer founded by Brian Wampler and based in Indiana, known for its overdrive, distortion, compression, and modulation pedals.
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Universal Audio
Models: 3 · Categories: 2
Universal Audio is an American maker of professional recording equipment founded in 1958, known for analog studio processors such as the 1176 and LA-2A and for its audio interfaces and plug-ins.
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Chase Bliss Audio
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Chase Bliss Audio is an American boutique effects pedal manufacturer founded by Joel Korte and based in Minnesota, known for deeply controllable analog-and-digital pedals combining knobs, toggles, and rear DIP switches.
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Keeley Electronics
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
Keeley Electronics is an American guitar effects pedal manufacturer founded by Robert Keeley and based in Edmond, Oklahoma, widely known for its compressors as well as overdrive, delay, and reverb pedals built in the United States.
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Walrus Audio
Models: 3 · Sources: 2
Walrus Audio is an American maker of guitar and bass effects pedals based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, known for its analog and digital modulation, delay, and reverb effects with distinctive original artwork.
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DigiTech
Models: 2 · Sources: 2
DigiTech is an American guitar effects brand best known for its digital pitch-shifting and multi-effects pedals, most famously the Whammy pitch-shift pedal.
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Pro Co Sound
Models: 3 · Categories: 1
Pro Co Sound is an American audio and effects company founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1974. It is best known for the RAT distortion pedal, whose prototypes were designed by engineer Scott Burnham and which entered full production in 1979. The RAT became one of the most recorded and influential distortion effects ever made. Pro Co pedals are hand-assembled and tested in Elkhart, Michigan, USA.