Where are these things made?

[notnac]

We should make a list of where pedals are manufactured. We could put them all on one page for easy reference. If you know of a specific company and where it makes its effects please post them in your response.

[fieldsroyal]

Menatone - made in USA
MI Audio - made in Australia

[kentatonic]

A few more:

Wilson Effects - made in USA
Earthquaker Devices - made in USA
Nick Greer/Greer Amps - made in USA
Hermida Audio - made in USA
Retroman - made in USA
FX Engineering - made in USA
Basic Audio - made in USA
Subdecay - made in USA
Cmatmods - made in USA
Dr. Scientist - made in Canada
D*A*M* - made in England
Red Witch - made in New Zealand
Crowther Audio - made in New Zealand
G2D - made in New Zealand
BJFE - made in Sweden
Mad Professor - made in Finland

[fieldsroyal]

MJM - Canada?

[Cap'nMayhem]

I heard somewhere that the new Sonic Edge pedals are made in China

[Schtomp]

Himmelstrutz-Made in sweden

[Jack DeVille]

Jack Deville Electronics, Catalinbread, Devi Ever, Spaceman FX, Monolith Loudspeakers: Portland, OR USA
There's more guys here making stuff too.

[yeahyeahyeah]

Made or assembled?

The way I see it, if more parts are put together in one place than in another, the place where the most parts are put together is where it is made.

The reason I ask is because a lot of folks get their PCBs populated at a board house overseas and just wire everything in the pedal enclosure when it gets to them. I'd say that falls into the "assembled" category.

Usually you can tell if a PCB has been soldered by hand or if a machine did it just by looking at the solder joints. Not to say that one is better than the other. Just a different amount of work involved. Mechanized processes are definitely faster and very consistent while hand soldering is much more time consuming but can be just as good quality wise. I've seen some really shoddy work done with both methods and really high quality work done with both methods. It's all about the QC and ultimately the price paid, either in dollars or time.

Then you've got the components themselves. I use parts that come from all over the world, each of them manufactured from raw materials from some other source...

With this stuff you can't really say 100% was made in one place. Except for maybe the ones made in the manufacturing monopoly of China.

[pulse.]

Crazy Tube Circuits made in Greece
Jam made in Greece

[pulse.]

Okko made in Germany

[BMF Effects]

All done right here in Hermosa Beach, CA.

[wingwalker]

So, thats where the magic happens Scott!

Looks like a place I could really spend some time!

[earthtonesaudio]

Originally Posted by BMF Effects

All done right here in Hermosa Beach, CA.

You must have a dang good extension cord.

[BMF Effects]

Originally Posted by earthtonesaudio

You must have a dang good extension cord.

That's what she said.

[A440]

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http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=629149