Electro-Harmonix
Electro-Harmonix is a company founded by Mike Matthews which produces guitar effects pedals. The company has been going since 1968, and is famous for its pedals such as the Big Muff Pi fuzz/sustain, the Small Stone phase shifter, and the Electric Mistress flanger.
The first Electro-Harmonix product was the Axis fuzz pedal, the entire production run of which was bought out by Guild and sold under the name Foxey Lady. While working with Bob Myer on the early Big Muff design, Mike Matthews used a booster circuit Myer had incorporated into the design and marketed it as the LPB-1 or Linear Power Booster in 1969. This massively boosted a guitar signal to provide gain by clipping the signal, dramatically changing the sound. The new device provided a raw distorted sound, full of sustain and harmonics. Several similar devices followed such as the Treble Booster and Bass Booster. The new devices were extremely popular with guitarists.
Although the company stopped producing pedals beginning in the 1980's, Matthews was persuaded to start reissuing E-H's classic pedals, as well as new designs, after he saw how much money was being paid for vintage guitar effects.
Still going strong, Electro-Harmonix produces a range of higher-end guitar effects pedals for a variety of sounds.
Effects10 Band Graphic Equalizer12AY7 Mic Pre 16-Second Digital Delay 3 Phase Liner 5X Junction Mixer Attack Equalizer Attack/Decay Bad Stone Phase Shifter Bass Micro-Synthesizer Bassballs Big Muff Pi (1970's, early graphics) Big Muff Pi (1970's, red and black graphics) Big Muff Pi (1980's, larger lettering) Big Muff Pi Reissue (modern) Big Muff Sovtek Black Finger Compressor Sustainer Cathedral Stereo Reverb Clap Track Clone Theory Crash Pad Crying Tone Pedal Deluxe Big Muff Pi Deluxe Electric Mistress Flanger Deluxe Memory Man Deluxe Octave Multiplexer Digital Delay/Chorus Digital Rhythm Matrix DRM-15 Digital Rhythm Matrix DRM-16 Digital Rhythm Matrix DRM-32 Doctor Q Envelope Follower Domino Theory |
Echo 600 Echoflanger Electric Mistress Flanger Electronic Metronome English Muff'n Frequency Analyzer Full Double Tracking Effect Fuzz Wah Germanium4 Big Muff Golden Throat Golden Throat II Golden Throat Deluxe Hog Synthesizer Hog Foot Controller Hog's Foot Bass Booster Holy Grail Holy Grail Plus Holy Stain Hot Foot Hot Tubes Linear Power Booster LPB-1 Linear Power Booster LPB-2 Little Big Muff Pi Memory Man/Stereo Memory Man Micro Pog Micro Synthesizer Mini Q-Tron/Micro Q-Tron Mini-Mixer MiniSynthesizer MiniSynthesizer with Echo Mole Bass Booster Muff Fuzz Muff Fuzz Crying Tone Neo Clone Octave Multiplexer Floor Unit Octave Multiplexer Pedal |
Panic Button Poly Chorus/Stereo Poly Chorus Polyphase Pulsar/Stereo Pulsar Pulse Moderator Q-Tron Q-Tron+ Queen Triggered Wah Random Tone Generator Rhythm 12 Riddle: Q-Balls Ring Thing Rolling Thunder Screaming Bird Treble Booster Screaming Tree Treble Booster Sequencer Drum Silencer Slapback Echo Small Clone Small Stone Phase Shifter Soul Preacher Space Drum/Super Space Drum Stereo Pulsar Switch Blade Talking Pedal Tube Zipper V256 Vocoder Volume Pedal Y-Triggered Filter Wiggler Worm Zipper Envelope Filter AmplifiersFreedom Brothers AmpMike Matthews Dirt Road Special Amp |