Electro-Harmonix Amplifiers & Effects

It's not easy to find a musician who hasn't heard of Electro-Harmonix, but if you're one of them, consider yourself lucky: this is an introduction that could do great things for your musical career. In fact, even if the name is new to you, the sounds probably aren't: Electro-Harmonix amplifiers & effects have been a mainstay of professional artists for years. You would need a lot of hands to count on your fingers all the legendary riffs from the past four and a half decades that were created using EHX stompboxes.

Electro-Harmonix was founded in 1968 by Mike Matthews, and he had a simple idea in mind: to put effects units at the feet of any guitarist or bassist who wanted them. That may sound strange today, in a world where effects are considered standard equipment. But, in 1968, the field was brand-new and most effects units worth using were way out of the price range of the day-to-day gigging musician. By cre