
The Top 9 was very carefully curated and I will explain in the country overviews also how I arrived at those 9 - some will be familiar to you, others less so. As with Japan for instance - many of these builders target only local customers - you will note that shipping from Central or South America to the UK/ Europe typically carries a significant cost - which means that unless these are on or Ebay, or available via some sort of International distribution or delivery scheme - then many of these pedals will just be out of practical range for anyone this side of the pond. On this occasion I scanned through 12 countries:īased on distribution / accessibility, engineering / design / build / innovation, overall appeal and differentiation - I established a Top 9 per the above image, and then split the contenders into First / Top and Second tier - with the First Tier the one which already has some International cachet or is best predisposed to worldwide proliferation. I obviously have my own specific criteria for selection - which is a mix of tangible and intangible criteria - and yes a lot of this is personal preference to a degree, but there is always science and methodology within this madness. What is fairly evident as is always the nature of Databases and Businesses in general - is that several of the listed companies are no longer active, and others have merged, evolved or transformed into something else or simply changed URL - all of which is distilled into this overview.

I used 4 resources in the main - the excellent Effects Database, then Google, and Ebay - with various other forms of triangulation. Generally Brazil, Argentina and Chile are particularly well represented.

Brazil and Argentina come fairly close - with Brazil having significantly the most concentrated volume of builders of any Country in that part of the world.
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This is the 11th in the Pedal Builders Country Series as such, although I’ve had to cast the net slightly wider as I currently don’t consider there to be enough top-tier / International-level builders in a single country here to satisfy the usual criteria.
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