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…
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.
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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…
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.
The Pull Focus is a high gain distortion pedal, with either a reverb or chorus effect fading in after a short while. It has a noise gate too, which unobtrusively keeps the pedal silent when you’re not playing. The distortion is all...
The Minidrone is a stripped-down all analog version of the Drone Rainger. It’s really fun to play over, and is a great foundation for improvisation, songwriting and dramatic live performance. It’s a deep and huge analogue synth, with...
The Chop Fuzzz is an uncompromising all analog, full-on gated fuzz pedal - with a whole bunch of interesting ways of manipulating the signal. It’s the latest installment in the Dr Freakenstein dynasty!!! It’s actually a very specific...
The Flanger-X is a flanger pedal, designed to provide anything from a slight chorus through to a huge sweeping modulation - with the Igor pressure-sensitive controller able to adjust the modulation speed. It’s digital, but features an...
Break Box is a deceptively simple distortion pedal, with active sustain, and a record scratch trigger facility! Using their original El Distorto overdrive circuit, they’ve added the back half of a Tonebender circuit to end up with a...
London, UK - December 1st, 2021 - Rainger FX have solved the problem of detection by enemy radar, with the launch of the DFST-1 (Stealth) distortion pedal. Based on their Dr Freakenstein full-on distortion circuit, it’s an extreme fuzz...
The Snare Trap is a drum machine you play guitar or synth/keyboards through! It’s designed to be used either on the desktop - by hand - or on the floor - by foot. The drum sounds are bass drum, snare, and hi-hat, and these can be...
The Minibar is a liquid analyser pedal, a truly revolutionary stompbox that uses the properties of a liquid to decide the sound of your guitar! A journey into sound… Rainger FX are inviting you to take part in an experiment in...
The Drone Rainger is the most atmospheric, cinematic pedal that we do. It’s a dub-flavoured digital delay (based on our Echo-X delay pedal), that also produces low, throbbing drones that can also be mixed through the delay circuit. If...
This is a digital reverb mini-pedal, simple to use, but giving a whole selection of unique - and very useful - new sounds. It’s based around an FV-1 chip, and comes with an Igor expression pad for real-time control. ‘Size’ adjusts the...
This is a sidechainer pedal, an effect that ducks your instrument’s signal each time it gets a trigger - capable of putting deep spaces into your sound! It’s an effect that’s heard on many recordings, often subtly - like when a rock...
The Rainger Echo-X is a digital delay mini-pedal which offers unprecedented real-time control over crucial parameters. It comes with an Igor pressure pad controller which can adjust delay speed, amount of feedback, or work as a ‘send’...