Welcome to Jacques handmade pedals

Pedals are wonderful devices that should be useful and useable and devoted to one thing : make your guitar sounds better.

They must be durable in both senses : heavy-duty for all stage abuses and living though the trends of the numerous fad gadgets.

History

Jacques has been soldering guitar effects since his teenage in the early ‘70s and collecting vintage pedals at the same time. A constant comparison between best commercial devices and homemade circuits have been the core of Jacques inventing process.

The first commercial original effect , called FUSEBLOWER , have been so successful in his hometown musicians community that Jacques founded his company in 1999 and started to sell this distortion pedal in France and abroad , mostly in the USA.

Other classic models followed, like the acclaimed Meistersinger analog chorus and more recently the award winning Electric Sheep overdrive.

Meet Our Leader

Jacques Charbit

CEO Founder

Jacques has been soldering guitar effects since his teenage in the early ‘70s and collecting vintage pedals at the same time. A constant comparison between best commercial devices and homemade circuits have been the core of Jacques inventing process.

The first commercial original effect , called FUSEBLOWER , have been so successful in his hometown musicians community that Jacques founded his company in 1999 and started to sell this distortion pedal in France and abroad , mostly in the USA.

Other classic models followed, like the acclaimed Meistersinger analog chorus and more recently the award winning Electric Sheep overdrive.

Awards & Recognition

Press, artists and users recognize Jacques as high quality pedals

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