Draft:ThorpyFX

ThorpyFx is a guitar effects pedal manufacturer based in Brackley, UK. Founded in 2014 by Adrian Thorpe and his wife Georgia Thorpe, they together with a team, design, hand-build and sell pedals all over the world.

History
Adrian Thorpe MBE served as an ATO in the British Army for 20 years, retiring as a Major in 2018. Adrian started building his own circuits for himself back in 2003 and sold the occasional one to friends and local musicians. After a short 2 year break in building he rekindled his joy for building effects pedals in 2012 and by 2014 had a circuit he felt ready for release under his own brand. This pedal was the Gunshot Overdrive which was released on April 1st 2015.. This was shortly followed by the Muffroom Cloud fuzz in August 2015 which changed its name to the Fallout Cloud in 2016 after upsetting the establishment when the pedal was described as the "Rolls Royce of big muffs" by Premier Guitar magazine.

Products
To date ThorpyFx has released a number of products in order as follows: Gunshot, Muffroom (Fallout) Cloud, Peacekeeper, Warthog, Chain Home, Veteran germanium, Veteran Silicon, Fat General, Team Medic, The Dane, Deep Oggin, Heavy Water, Camoflange, Field Marshal, Bunker, FLIR, Pulse Doppler, Boneyard, Scarlet Tunic, ER-2, Dane MKII, Tacit Blue, Have Blue, Electric Lightning, WOPR & Old Timer. Some have since been discontinued or were limited releases.

Design and Pedal Production
All ThorpyFx pedals are designed either by Thorpy himself or in conjunction with Dan Coggins, the former electronic engineer and co-owner of Lovetone pedals and who now works full time on ThorpyFx circuit design.

All but one so far of the ThorpyFx pedals are analogue through-hole PCB and are loaded and soldered by hand. This is done by a team of solder jockeys based either in Brackley, or working remotely. The soldered and loaded PCBs are then hand wired into custom made enclosures, designed by Adrian. The enclosures are made from a combination of laser-etched stainless steel, anodised aluminium with silkscreened artwork and a powder-coated steel base.

Artist Collaborations and Documented Users
ThorpyFx has designed the signature pedal The Dane for Peter Honoré, a Danish session guitarist-turned YouTube star and the recently release Electric Lightning, a signature pedal for Chris Buck of Cardinal Black. They have also designed the Scarlet Tunic to the specifications and needs of Lee Harris, former guitarist of the Blockheads and now plays guitar in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, a supergroup band consisting of Lee, Gary Kemp, Nick Mason, Guy Pratt, & Dom Beken, put together to play the early music of Pink Floyd.

Other notable users include:


 * Ed O'Brien (Radiohead)
 * Graham Coxon (Blur)
 * J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr)
 * Brian Molko & Stefan Olsdal (Placebo)
 * Oli Brown (Raveneye)
 * Ariel Posen (Bros Landreth)
 * Joey Landreth (Bros Landreth)
 * John Shanks (Grammy Award Winning Producer)
 * Matt White (Temperance Movement)
 * Dave Gregory (XTC)
 * Danny Jones (McFly)
 * Chris Robertson (Black Stone Cherry)
 * Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake, UFO, The Snakes)
 * Bootsy Collins (Parliament Funkadelic)
 * Josh Smith (Solo Artist, Joshua and the Bandits)
 * Dan Rothman (London Grammar)
 * Pete Honoré (Youtube legend, Session player to Tom Jones, Westlife)
 * Chris Buck (Cardinal Black)
 * Mikey Demus (Skindred)
 * Tim Mills (Riders to Ruin, Bare Knuckle Pickups)
 * Krissy Matthews (Solo Artist and Hamburg Blues Band)
 * Aynsley Lister (Solo Artist)
 * David Domminney Fowler (Aussie Pink Floyd)
 * Lee Harris (Saucerful of Secrets)
 * Stephen McElroy (Aussie Pink Floyd)
 * Jim Weider (Solo Artist, The Band, The Weight Band)
 * Noel Gallagher (Solo Artist, Oasis, High Flying Birds)
 * Paul Stacey (Producer, Guitarist, Black Crowes)
 * Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys)
 * Brian Byrne- (guitarist- Violent Joy/Envy On The Coast)
 * Slash (Guns & Roses)

ThorpyFx Collaboration Projects
ThorpyFx has released two "That Pedal Show" versions of it's pedals. First the Muffroom Cloud in 2015 and then the Camoflange in 2019, of which That Pedal Show launched the first 100 pedals in production with NOS Matsushita BBD chips.

In 2020 Adrian worked with Victory Amplification to help create the Victory V1 line of pedals

In 2021 Adrian was asked to contribute to Reverbs "The Pedal Movie"

Thorpe also co-owns Redbeard Effects with Mikey Demus. Demus is the guitarist for Skindred and they started the pedal company together in 2019.

Adrian is often asked to provide commentary on pedals and pedal culture for magazines and online resources including Guitarist Magazine and Guitar.com