Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) is the world’s leading guitar manufacturer, and its name has become synonymous with all things rock ‘n’ roll. Fender manufacturers a huge line of guitar amps, bass amps, keyboard amps, and PA systems and also owns SWR, EVH, and many other guitar brands.
LOUD Technologies Inc. is one of the world’s largest dedicated pro audio and music products companies. As the corporate parent for world-recognized brands including Alvarez, Ampeg, Crate, EAW, Knilling, Mackie, SIA and TAPCO, LOUD Technologies Inc. produces a wide range of digital recording products, loudspeakers, commercial audio systems, audio and music software, guitars, guitar and bass amplifiers, and orchestral string instruments.
Korg manufacturers pianos, tuners, metronomes, dance and DJ tools, processors, mixers, digital recording equipment, and software. In addition to Korg, the company's brand names include Karma, Kaoss, Triton, Electribe, and ToneWorks. Founded in 1963, Korg sells its products through distributors in some 80 countries worldwide. Korg also owns Marshall and Vox.
Since 1887, when it began producing reed organs, the Yamaha Corporation in Japan (then Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.) has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of a full line of musical instruments, and a leading producer of audio/visual products, home electronics and other computer related products
Randall Smith has an ear for tone, a passion for tube technology, a vision for building high performance amps and an unwavering devotion to redefining what we think of as amplified guitar. At Mesa/Boogie,
they only know one way to do things. They want to build the very best amplifiers as possible.
Hartley Peavey founded Peavey Electronics on the principle of providing quality MI products—namely instrument amplifiers and P.A. (public address) systems-at affordable prices, and this principle has spawned an array of guitars, basses, amplifiers and drums for an ever-expanding market that includes all levels of musicians, from beginning to intermediate to advanced. Peavey also owns Trace Elliot.
Today's Gibson electric guitars represent the history as well as the future of the electric guitar. The models whose designs have become classics-the ES-175, ES-335, Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, SGs and Les Pauls-are a testament to Gibson's wide appeal. Other Gibson Brands are: Epiphone, Baldwin, Maestro, Wurlitzer, Kramer, Electar, and many others.
In the mid 1960’s Bud Ross battled the odds to combine America’s love of music with the passion for high-speed hot rods. Ross experimented with covering speaker cabinets with the same colorful Naugahyde material. Musicians responded enthusiastically! Today Kustom honors its trend setting past by building award-winning amplifiers and P.A. systems.
Line 6 set out to meet the needs of today's guitarist by harnessing technology to turn a wide range of great tone into a reality for every guitarist. Line 6 amassed a noteworthy collection of sought-after vintage amps and effects, and started meticulously measuring and analyzing every tonal aspect of the amps, effects and their associated circuitry. After years of research and playing, Line 6 launched a patented technology in 1996, with the world's first digital modeling guitar amplifier.
