Pigtronix
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Pigtronix is an analog effects pedal designer and producer conceived by David Koltai and Brian Bethke, who met as undergraduate students at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.
Pigtronix was launched in 2004 under the CA based company Absara Audio LLC. Their first pedal, the EP-1 Envelope Phaser, was released at Summer NAMM, 2004 in Nashville, TN.
The Pigtronix EP-1 Envelope Phaser pedal is a four stage optical phase shifter. It is a variation on Craig Anderton's phase shifter design from his seminal book, Electronic Projects for Musicians. Designed to emulate both the Univibe, as made famous by Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun," and Musitronics Mutron III, used by Jerry Garcia during the Grateful Dead's 1977 version of "Estimated Prophet."
The Pigtronix EP-1 features both an envelope follower and rotary phaser style effect. It also includes an "EF trigger" input that allows an instrument's sound to be phase modulated by an external audio source, or it can serve as an effects loop.
In 2006, Pigtronix announced the OFO Disnortion, a pedal which combines an octave-up effect with parallel overdrive and fuzz sections. 2007 has brought two new designs to the company's lineup, one being a high-end echo/delay pedal called the "Phi Echolution," the other being a polyphonic amplitude controller simply called the "Attack Sustain."
Artists who use Pigtronix products include:
Victor Wooten
The Flaming Lips
Marcus Miller
Secret Machines
John Scofield
Chuck Hammer
