SF Bay Area Equipment Makers
When I first wrote this page it contained mostly equipment makers. Over time it has grown, and now includes many companies that provide instruments, accessories, software and services, often crossing lines between categories.
Guitar Amplifiers and Speakers
- AccuGroove, Redding
- Aracom Amplifiers, Morgan Hill
- BC Audio, San Francisco
- Budda Amplification (acquired by Peavey)
- Emery Sound Guitar Amps, El Cerrito
- Exclusive Amps, Sacramento (Fargen Amps)
- Gallien-Krueger, Stockton
- Grid 1 Audio / Pedal Jeanie, Vallejo
- Headstrong Amplifiers, Santa Cruz
- Jule Amps, Santa Cruz
- Mesa/Boogie, Petaluma
- Milkman Sound, San Francisco
- Sebago Sound, San Jose
- Tone Tubby Speakers, San Rafael
- Two-Rock Amplifiers, Rohnert Park
- VHT Amplification, Brisbane
- ZT Amplifiers, Berkeley
Guitar Effects
- Audible Disease, Sacramento
- Daring Audio, Belmont
- Voodoo Lab., Santa Rosa
- Euthymia Electronics, Alameda
- Muzemazer (moved to Michigan)
- Rockbox Electronics, San Jose
- Sonoma Wire Works, Los Altos
Software, Apps, Services
- 8Tracks, San Francisco
- Aha Radio, Palo Alto
- BandPage, San Francisco (raised $27 million, bought by YouTube for $8 million)
- Eventbrite / TicketFly, San Francisco
- Gracenote, Emeryville
- JamBase, San Francisco
- McDSP, Sunnyvale
- Patreon, San Francisco
- RockBot, Oakland
- SoundHound, Santa Clara
- Tune In, San Francisco
Equipment
- Antares Audio Technologies, Scotts Valley
- Apple, Inc., Cupertino
- Avid / DigiDesign / Euphonix, Mountain View
- Boombotix, San Francisco
- Burwell and Sons Loudspeakers, San Mateo
- Countryman Associates, Menlo Park
- Creative Labs, Milpitas
- Dolby Labs, San Francisco, Brisbane, Santa Clara
- E-MU, Scotts Valley
- Encore Electronics, Lafayette
- Furman Sound, Petaluma
- Looperlative Audio Products, San Jose
- Mercury Recording Equipment Company, Hayward
- Keith McMillen Instruments, Berkeley
- Millennia Music & Media Systems, Placerville
- Magnetic Reference Laboratory, San Jose
- Meyer Sound Laboratories, Berkeley
- Miselu, San Franscisco
- Mission Engineering, Petaluma
- Monster Cable, Brisbane
- Muse Research, Menlo Park
- Nady Systems, Emeryville
- Network Sound, Folsom
- NHT, Benecia
- Olive, San Francisco
- Parasound, San Francisco
- Pass Laboratories, Auburn
- Pono Music, San Francisco
- Ragtime West, Ceres
- Retro Instruments, Lodi
- Sennheiser Research Labs, San Francisco
- Sound Semiconductor, Standard
- Universal Audio, Scotts Valley