EarthQuaker Devices

EarthQuaker Devices
Private
Industry Musical Instrument Manufacturing
Founded 2004 (2004)
Headquarters Akron, Ohio, United States
Products guitar effects
Website Official website

EarthQuaker Devices is an American company that manufactures digital and analog effects pedals and amplifiers. While focusing on the electric guitar and bass guitar, EarthQuaker Devices pedals are usable with other electronic or amplified instruments.

History

EarthQuaker Devices was started by Jamie Stillman in 2004 as a small, one person hobby electronics organization after he fixed his own broken overdrive pedal.[1] Since then, Stillman's company has grown in both popularity and size, growing to employ 36 people who work to produce up to 700 hand-wired effects pedals a week.[2]

Currently, EarthQuaker Devices has produced more than 40 pedal versions and continues to release and tweak existing designs.[3] The company is known primarily for original designs that are strange or out of the ordinary effects such as their Rainbow Machine, but they also produce many traditional styles of distortion pedals such as overdrive and fuzz, and new innovations on classic circuits such as the Ibanez Tubescreamer and the distortion circuit from the Sunn Model T amplifier. Winter NAMM 2016 saw the release of many new pedal designs, including the Avalanche Run, a delay and reverb pedal and EarthQuaker's first exclusive pedal with Reverb.com.

During Summer NAMM 2015, EarthQuaker Devices debuted their first ever amplifier, the Sound Projector 25.[4] The amp marks EarthQuaker's first attempt to produce audio gear other than pedals and effects.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Abram, Malcolm X. "EarthQuaker Devices making waves in the music world". www.ohio.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  2. ↑ "Earthquaker shakes up the music business". Crain's Cleveland Business. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  3. ↑ "Akron-based company reinvents guitar effect pedals". WKYC. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Earthquaker Devices Announces Entry into Amp Market with Sound Projector 25 | Reverb". reverb.com. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  5. ↑ Mason. "The 16 Coolest Things We Saw at Winter NAMM 2016". zZounds Music Blog. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
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