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Analog Man

Analog Man Pedals & FX

Deluxe Guitars is proud to bring you Analog Man Pedals from the Connecticut, USA. If you have any enquiries about any Analog Man products, please don't hesitate to ask us.

Did you know...

Mike became interested in Vintage Guitars when he worked in Japan for almost a year in 1985 and saw the great vintage guitar shops (and prices!) in Japan. He worked in Japan as a software engineer on transistor test systems in Tachikawa and visited Tokyo often, where his girlfriend lived.

Mike was able to find many vintage guitars in the northeast USA before vintage guitars got as popular in the USA as they were in Japan. After the vintage guitar boom in the USA, effects were still relatively easy to find so Mike started concentrating on effects. He studied them for several years, while finding and selling vintage effects, but the popular ones (Fuzzfaces, TS-808s, etc) were VERY hard to find and super expensive. And it was interesting that some old pedals sounded great while other identical examples were lousy... a lot of studying resulted. Soon Mike started making some of these himself, to meet the demand for vintage pedals at a better price and higher quality than the originals. Most of the Analog Man pedals were first built to meet the demand for these vintage icons when there were no alternatives available (TS9/808, Clone chorus, Comprossor, etc).

Over 12 years ago Mike learned about the tube screamer history, and studied the circuits and learned how to modify a TS9 into a TS-808. He finally found some of the JRC4558D chips in Akihabara, Tokyo at one of the small electronics shacks near the train station. They were 50 Yen each so he bought as many as he could afford. When he got back to the USA he modified TS9 pedals for friends, and a few people on this new thing called the INTERNET. Everyone was crazy about the sounds and a market was born for the modified ts9/808, as Ibanez had just reissued the TS9. Since this modification market was created by Mike many people have jumped on the bandwagon and there are all sorts of mods being performed now all over the world.

Mike started about the 3rd web site in the world with guitar effects, while there were only a handful of guitar sites at that time and none from the major manufacturers. His real job was a software engineer, having graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, with a BS in CS and more than enough courses in Electrical Engineering to get a minor in EE. So computers were easy to use and he could program the web site with a text editor (He still does, the website is vintage looking...).

In 2000 Mike started full time with Analog Man, and soon got a working relationship with Dave Fox of FOXROX electronics who together perfected Dave's creation of the Captain Coconut. Analog Man now offers handmade Chorus pedals, compROSSors, Sun Faces, Beano Boosts, Sun Lions, King Of Tone pedals, and custom A-B, true bypass, and other switching boxes in addition to custom projects and mods. There are many other projects on the burner... keep in touch!

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