RAINGER FX

Our vision is to inspire musicians to write great songs, great riffs, and just keep playing.

Our mission is to make cutting-edge guitar effects pedals for today’s musicians, designing and manufacturing them in the UK and selling them worldwide.

Set up by David Rainger in 2009, Rainger FX is a North West London-based guitar effects company, designing and building new kinds of effects pedals, and providing new sounds inspired by music around right now – with a totally distinctive visual style and use.

Pedals should sound great, be totally reliable, and be fun; we like LEDs a lot – and a visual representation of the sound (from a basic on/off indicator upwards) is very important.

And if the whole thing can be done simply – then that’s best of all.

DAVID RAINGER

I worked as an assistant engineer in a big recording studio in the 1980s, all the while playing guitar in various bands. In 1989 I started doing more and more recording – for my own projects and other people’s – and also started writing for various musicians magazines, reviewing effects pedals (and buying any that stood out) and other equipment.

For many years I wrote a monthly column where I interviewed guitar techs from big groups, finding out how top guitarists got their sound and what they were after. I also did a monthly survey of best selling gear, phoning round UK music shops, finding out what people liked.

For a while I’d been having pedals built from scratch or customised, and in the 2000s I started to make my own; just one-offs for my own personal use, but after a while realised other guitarists would be interested in using them too. So I made a bunch, and took them down to Denmark Street in London…

Since then we’ve expanded, and have launched more than 30 different products over the years, and sell them internationally…