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Meazzi

Amp

http://www.fetishguitars.com/mrt/index.html

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Meazzi

Effects

http://selmer.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/echos/pa.html

http://www.meazzi.com/images/PA306/MeazziUniversal.jpg

http://www.fetishguitars.com/mrt/index.html

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Mega Amps

Woosung Chorus China factory. Since 1997. Distributed by Guitar Jones, Inc, Pomona, California.

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mega

Melatronix

http://www.metaltronix.net/metaltronix-history.htm

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Metaltronix

Melos

http://tix.gozaru.jp/stompbox.html

Melos schematic

http://analogguru.an.ohost.de/

Memphis

Amps made in Nagoya, Japan.

http://www.locobox.com/memphis.html

http://tix.gozaru.jp/stompbox.html

Memphis schematic

http://analogguru.an.ohost.de/

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Memphis

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Merlin

Bass heads, Musician Sound Design, Germany

Mesa Boogie

Between 1967 and 1970 Randall Smith converted more than 200 Fender Princetons adding a Fender Bassman circuit and replaced the 10 inch speaker with a 12 inch JBL in a shed in Lagunitas, Northern California. Smith then built a two storey garage and the Mark 1 Boogie was built from scratch. Randall Smith took the 1960's Fender designs, and added more gain stages. No major amp had ever had so many preamp gain stages, and all this extra gain produced thick, heavy distortion. [Source: Mesa web site]

http://home.earthlink.net/~ayan/history.htm 

Dating Mesa Boogie amplifiers

"Unfortunately there is no "system" to our serial numbers. They all basically start with a letter designation for the amp model) (i.e. "RK-000435" for "Road King # 435") and are followed by a 6 digit number. All amp start at zero and continue in sequence until the amp is discontinued." [Source: Marcus Daniel, Mesa/Boogie, Customer Service/Product Specialist, email 7/2/2007]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_Boogie

History http://homepage.mac.com/mesaboogie/welcome.html

Mesa Boogie Forums

http://forum.grailtone.com/

http://p223.ezboard.com/bmesaboogieampforum77319

Mesa Boogie product catalogs & Manuals

1985 http://brochures.yokochou.com/en_index.html

1999 Mesa Boogie Product Reference Guide (pdf)

2002 Mesa Boogie Product Reference Guide (pdf)

2004 Mesa Boogie catalog (note ZIP file)

2007 Mesa Boogie Product Reference Guide (pdf)

2007 Mesa Boogie Catalog

2009 Mesa Boogie New Products catalog

http://www.21frets.com/catalogs.html

http://www.britishaudioservice.com/manuals.shtml

Mesa Boogie schematics

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=1

http://www.drtube.com/guitamp.htm

http://www.schematicheaven.com/index_HTML.htm

Prepal Used prices Mesa Boogie

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mesa%2FBoogie

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mesa+Boogie

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Messenger

Image Messenger Guy Flickr

Metaltronix

Metaltronix amps built by Lee Jackson Amps USA.

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Metaltronix

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Meteor

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Meteor

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Meteoro

Since 1986. Brazil

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Meteoro

Metropolous amplification

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Metropoulos+Amplification

MG Music

Since 2004. Marcello Giangrande, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/MG+MUSIC

MI Audio

Australian built guitars amps and effects. MI Audio was founded in 2002 by Michael Ibrahim. [Source: Wikepedia]

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/MI+Audio

Mighty Atom

Mighty Atom Amp  in mid 1970s Bell Musical Instruments Catalog, UK

Mirano

http://tix.gozaru.jp/stompbox.html

Mission Amps

Since 1996. Bruce Collins, Arvada, Colorado

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mission+Amps

Mitchell

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Amps made by Tom Mitchell, Mitchell Speaker Co, Riverside, California, USA. He ran a music store there in the 1970s - early 1980s [Source: Ampage ]

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mitchell

Images of Mitchell Deluxe amp and 1980 magazine advertisement courtesy of Bob Ohsiek

MJM Guitar Effects

"The pedals became widely available around 2001,there are markings inside each pedal with a sharpie pen usually stating a serial # and month/year of production. [Source: Michael, MJMGUITARFX, email 23/3/2008]
Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/MJM+Guitar+Effects

MJW

MJW, formerly Martamp is based in North Derbyshire, England. They make a range of lower watt amps including 1 and 5 watt models.  Thanks to Hakan D from Turkey for pointing this brand out to me.

ModTone

ModTone effects brochure 2009

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Modtone

Moen

Moen effects established 2005.

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/MOEN

Founded by Victor Mason, Apple Valley, California, in 2002.

"We started in 2002. Each amp would have had a date written on the serial tag either on the outside or inside of the amp." [Source: Victor Mason,Mojave Ampworks LLC. & Plexi Palace, email 19/3/2008]

http://www.guitaramplifiermagazine.com/pub/2005/premier_issue/mojave.html

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mojave+Ampworks

Montarbo

http://www.fetishguitars.com/mrt/index.html

Montirios

Handmade amps and cabs, Sydney Australia

Moody

Moody guitar amplifiers and lap steel guitars were made by R. Moody & Co. Pty Ltd, of Sydney, Australia in the 1960s. They were made in the company's factory at 126 Bombay Street Lidcombe. The Bombay St premise was purpose built.

The owner of the company was Bert (Robert) Moody (2/8/1924-30/7/2005). He moved out of the Amplifier production business in the early to mid 70s due to an inability to compete with the much cheaper imported Japanese amplifiers such as Yamaha etc.

Moody Amps were notable at the time for their styling and their predominantly cathode bias circuits.
 [Source: wikipedia]

Also made Tape Echos [Ozvalveamps]

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Moody

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Moog

Moog schematics

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=1

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Moollon+Musical+Instruments

Mooneyes

Lace Music Products.

Morgan Miller

MMFX

MMFX pedals were made by Morgan Miller of Orem, Utah USA.  In 2003-4 Morgan was called up for Army Reserve duty as announced on his web site on the internet archive. 

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Morgan+Miller

Morley

"The history of Morley pedals is on wikipedia.org and there is no way to date our products by serial number." [Source: Chad, Morley, email 19/3/2008]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_Pedals

http://www.geocities.com/stompbox2001/?200730

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Morley

Morris Amps

In 2000 Glenn C Morris founded Morris Custom Electronics and Morris Amplification. In 2005 he introduced a production line of amps.

Welland, Ontario, Canada.

Motion Sound

Keyboard amps since 1994.

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Motion+Sound

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Mountain

Mountain amps, Vancouver Canada. Factory started out in California, before moving to Nevada then Vancouver Canada.

The web site was not working in 2010 but was available on Wayback Machine.

Mountain 9V DC guitar amplifier specification from the archive

Model finishes

Mountain amps reviews

Mountain amps web site

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Mountain

MTI

Music Technology Inc. (MTI) was a wholesale & import company founded by Ernie Briefel in 1977 after he left Unicord.

In 1980 they bought Ampeg from Selmer-Magnavox and started selling Ampeg amplifiers that were made in Japan, but these were received badly. In 1984 their deal with Matsumoku, a Japanese guitar company who built their Westone guitars, ended in favour of SLM (who ordered their Electra guitars from Matsumoku).

MTI went bankrupt and/or was renamed to Music Industries Corporation (?) [Source: Hakan, email 8/9/2010]

Multivox

1946-1984. Multivox was started as a subsidiary of Premier for amps then effects.

http://tix.gozaru.jp/stompbox.html

Multivox schematics

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=1

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Music  Man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Man_%28company%29

http://www.pacair.com/mmamps/Misc__Info/Model_Chart/model_chart.html

Music Man schematics

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=1

http://www.drtube.com/guitamp.htm

http://www.schematicheaven.com/post70s.htm

Music Man catalogs

http://vintage.catalogs.free.fr/Index.htm

Musicman reference book

Music Man: 1978 to 1982 (And Then Some!): The Other Side of the Story

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar+Amp/brand/Music+Man

MuTron

Musitronics

http://www.beitec.com/stomp.htm

http://www.geocities.com/stompbox2001/?200730

http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/effects.php

http://www.myrareguitars.com/joeyeffectsandpedals.html

http://www.thegigrig.com/acatalog/MutronIII.html

Ads http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/advertisements/Musitronics

Reviews http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/brand/Musitronics%2FMu-Tron

Prepal prices for MuTron

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MXR

MXR Innovations was the largest US effects company, started in the early 1970s with Keith Barr as President and co-founder. 
They closed in 1984, unable to remain profitable against Japanese brands (Boss etc). In 1987 the MXR brand was purchased by Jim Dunlop, who started making reissues of the old line of effects and bringing new effects under the MXR brand to the market. [Source: P.A.S. ]

http://www.analogman.com/faq.htm#mxr

watch out for fakes  http://www.analogman.com/fakemxr.htm

http://www.analogman.com/paperw.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXR

http://www.geocities.com/stompbox2001/?200730

http://www.geocities.com/stompbox2001/dynacomp.htm

MXR Schematics

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics/schempage.php?cat=1

http://analogguru.an.ohost.de/