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“Jimi was staying at a hotel in Times Square. He had his hair set in pink curlers and we would just talk band drama”: Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews on befriending Hendrix, booking Chuck Berry and the birth of pedal culture

The EHX pioneer is one of the guitar world's most colorful characters. He tells us what happened when Hendrix bought one of the first Big Muffs, how the Rolling Stones got him started in the pedal biz, and why the "overdesigned" POG3 is an unlikely triumph

Guitar World

“Hendrix said, ‘Mike, I gotta quit. I want to form my own band.’” I said, ‘Then you’ve got to sing’”: Why Jimi Hendrix might never have started his solo career if it weren’t for Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews

The pedal guru tells Guitar World he convinced Jimi to go solo, and claims he saw Hendrix recording with a Big Muff

Guitar World

“I have been in the process of trying to sell the company. It’s a difficult time”: Trump’s tariffs could be about to decimate the gear industry

Think that US-imposed Mexican and Chinese tariffs don’t affect you? Here's why your next gear purchase just got a whole lot more expensive

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“I’ll have to scratch my chin to think about it. Can I still make a profit?” Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews reveals legendary pedal firm’s struggles in the face of Trump’s tariffs

EHX is the latest gear company to speak out after the impacts of Trump's new tariffs begin to be felt across the guitar world

Guitar World

“A frankly ludicrous pedal that stakes itself as the ultimate octave funhouse”: Electro-Harmonix POG 3 review

EHX’s incredibly fun reincarnation of the POG aims to let you get weird with your tones, but does it justify that gigantic asking price?

MusicRadar

“Sonic wizardry at its finest”: Electro-Harmonix POG3 review

Updated and enhanced, this latest version of the POG takes its pitch-shifting and tone-shaping possibilities to the limit

Guitar World

“One of our best-selling pedals for over a decade with an updated feature set”: Electro-Harmonix responds to sky-rocketing looper competition with the Pico 360+ – can this mini looper take the crown?

Downsized reimagining of EHX’s best-selling 360 Looper channels the original’s magic, adds unlimited overdubs, and bottles it all in an ultra-tiny chassis

Guitar World

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“Packed with musical features to keep you jamming without missing a beat!”: Electro-Harmonix’s Pico 360+ is tiny $137 looper with 360 seconds of recording time and unlimited overdubs

A pedalboard space saver that's packed with features, the latest in EHX's Pico Series has 11 memory slots, overdub control and adjustable fade-out

MusicRadar

“Massive tones that obliterate like Godzilla bouncing the bullet train to oblivion… it’s completely unlike any other fuzz and/or octave effect out there”: Electro-Harmonix Lizard King Octave Distortion review

Voiced for bass but awesome on guitar, this pedalboard Godzilla might just take the crown as this year's must-have octave fuzz

Guitar World

“This is a huge update to music’s best octave pedal”: EHX unveils the POG3 – now with 6 voices, 100 presets, individual pan controls, MIDI and more, say hello to the ultimate polyphonic octave generator

The POG3 expands upon Electro-Harmonix's polyphonic classic with stacks of new features, lightning-fast tracking as standard, and it might just be EHX's most ambitious pedal yet

MusicRadar

“The most powerful polyphonic octave generator ever”: Electro-Harmonix unveils the POG3, the latest generation of the trailblazing octave pedal beloved by Joe Satriani and Jack White

With an all-new chassis, features cribbed from EHX's greatest hits, and a $645 price tag, does this premium pedal mark a new era for the storied New York FX co?

Guitar World

“A gnarly octave fuzz tone that interacts with your dynamics, optimized for bass”: Is octave fuzz the pedal your bass ’board is missing? Electro-Harmonix sure thinks so

The Lizard Queen has become the Lizard King, offering a dynamic, blendable octave fuzz pedal designed specifically for bass players

Guitar World

"There are no safety nets in The White Stripes. It’s obviously harder for me to work with a 1964 plastic guitar compared with a brand-new one right off the factory line": Jack White talks gear and garage rock hipsters in this 2007 classic interview

In this in-depth chat from 2007, White talks about the recording of the White Stripes' Icky Thump, hails Nashville for keeping it real and explains why music is not fun

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix Pico Pog review

Smaller than ever but just as mighty, the highly acclaimed octave pedal is reborn

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There’s no beating the Boss: Reverb reveals its best-selling guitar pedals of 2023

From an orange classic to Josh Scott’s fake-it-til-they-make-it hit, here are the stompboxes that shifted over the last year

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix Pico Platform Compressor/Limiter review – small, affordable and makes you sound better

This new launch from EHX is now one of the mini compressor pedals to beat

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix Nano Metal Muff review – a surprisingly versatile distortion pedal that does more than just metal

A small but mighty fuzzstortion for all your metal needs, but this has an appeal beyond the denim and leather cohort

Guitar World

Big Muff vs Fuzz Face: what's the difference?

The Big Muff and Fuzz Face are the two most famous fuzz pedals ever produced. Let's compare the two

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Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix just launched a serious competitor in the mini compressor pedal stakes

The Pico Platform Compressor/Limiter won’t take up much room on your pedalboard, but it will deliver studio-style squeeze with plenty of flexibility

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix unveils the incredible shrunken Pico POG – its “smallest and most powerful compact Polyphonic Octave Generator yet!”

It's the POG that we all know and love, only tiny...

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix honors Andy Summers with a rare signature pedal, the Walking on the Moon Flanger

The Police guitarist’s signature shimmering flange and filter tones are captured in this stunning new stompbox

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix announces the Andy Summers Walking On The Moon flanger pedal

One small step for flange…

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix’s most metal pedal yet: the Hell Melter takes the Boss HM-2 circuit to new extremes

The NYC firm’s take on the classic “chainsaw distortion pedal” offers even more gain and boost, and an untapped level of control

MusicRadar

Electro-Harmonix adds beef to the Keef with the expanded Satisfaction Plus fuzz debuting an all-new Fat mode

You can get mo' satisfaction as EHX adds Fat mode plus Bias and Tone knobs to its vintage-style fuzz box – and it's just $99

Guitar World

Electro-Harmonix fattens up Keith Richards-channeling Satisfaction fuzz pedal

EHX's latest homage to the fuzz tone "that launched a thousand riffs" has been kitted out with a new "Fat" switch, plus a pair of additional control knobs, for an expanded palette of sounds

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