ABOUT RAINGER FX

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 for today's electric guitarists.

We're aiming to provide 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.

ABOUT 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...

I've been playing rock music since the 1970s, but have always been into funk and electro too... And trying to push the envelope of guitar sounds.

LINKS

www.facebook.com/pages/Rainger-FX-guitar-pedals
Rainger FX on facebook

www.myspace.com/raingerfx
Rainger FX on myspace

www.myspace.com/davidrainger
That's me!

www.giantjr.com
That's my band (multi-media art-thing).

www.jylmillard.com
Intriguing and odd photography website of the other Giant Jr co-person (and - among many other things - the person who made this top website).

www.myspace.com/drainger
D-Rainger is one of my many alter-egos, a creator of instrumental electronic music. Visit to hear clips of forthcoming album 'Dark Sign Of
The Mood', a selection of melodic and harmonic modes (moody and strange) to listen - and practice - to.

www.myspace.com/jylmillard
Giant Jr co-person Jyl's myspace page

www.youtube.com/promogiantjr
Giant Jr's films.

www.myspace.com/tryandmakemerecords
Page for our lovely record label ('hi' to Josh and Joanne)

www.makezine.com
Fantastic magazine (print and online) for hackers/makers everywhere. Comes from California - with all the enthusiasm, crazyness and cutting-edge maverick genius that west-coast USA specialises in...You need to know about this publication.

www.dmxkrew.com
Top electro/techno outfit, and home of Breakin' Records.

www.cricklewoodelectronics.co.uk
A gem of a components store in north-west London.

www.indy-guitarist.com
Brian Wampler's excellent guitar gear site - great pedals.

www.solarbotics.com
The place to get parts for all your miniature solar-powered creations.

www.active-robots.com
Great UK-based robot parts.

www.guitarplayer.com
Got to be one of the very best guitar magazines around.