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.
- AccuGroove Cupertino
- AirKast Milpitas
- Antares Audio Technologies Scotts Valley
- Apple, Inc. Cupertino
- Aracom Amplifiers Morgan Hill
- BIAS Audio Software Petaluma
- Bartolini Pickups and Electronics Livermore
- BC Audio San Francisco
- Budda Amplification (now part of Peavy in Meridian, Mississippi)
- Countryman Associates Menlo Park
- Creative Labs Milpitas
- Cycling 74 San Francisco
- DAR Amplification Palo Alto
- Daring Audio Belmont
- DigiDesign / Avid Daly City
- Digital Music Corp. (Voodoo Lab) Santa Rosa
- Dolby Labs San Francisco, Brisbane, Santa Clara
- Jim Dunlop Benicia
- Emery Sound Guitar Amps El Cerrito
- EMG Pickups Santa Rosa
- E-MU Scotts Valley
- Encore Electronics Lafayette
- Euphonix Mountain View
- Euthymia Electronics Alameda
- Fargen Amps Sacramento
- Furman Sound Petaluma
- Gallien-Krueger Stockton
- Gracenote Emeryville
- Grid 1 Vallejo
- Italia Straps Marina
- HW Products San Leandro
- Intertune (LSR Tuners) San Francisco
- K&M Analog Designs (Two-Rock Amplifiers) Rohnert Park
- King Amplification San Jose
- LaLa Palo Alto (now part of Apple)
- Roger Linn Design Berkeley
- Limited Resistance Rohnert Park
- Live365, Foster City
- Looperlative Audio Products San Jose
- Luthier's Mercantile International Windsor
- Mercury Recording Equipment Company Hayward
- Keith McMillen Instruments Berkeley
- Metasonix Vacuum Tube Synthesizers(!!!), Lakeport
- Millennia Music & Media Systems Placerville
- Magnetic Reference Laboratory San Jose
- Dean Markley Strings Santa Clara
- McDSP Sunnyvale
- Mesa/Boogie Petaluma
- Meyer Sound Laboratories Berkeley
- MOG Berkeley
- Monster Cable Brisbane
- Muse Research Menlo Park
- The Music Link / VHT Amplification Hayward
- Muzemazer (moved to Michigan)
- Nady Systems Emeryville
- NHT Benecia
- Tom Oberheim
- Olive San Francisco
- Pandora Oakland
- Parasound San Francisco
- Chandler Music's Pickguard Heaven Chico
- Pigtronix (moved to Long Island, NY)
- Pinnacle Systems / Avid Mountain View
- Leo Quann / Badass San Francisco
- Ragtime West Ceres
- Rdio San Francisco
- Retro Instruments Lodi
- Rhapsody, San Francisco
- RMC Pickup Co. Berkeley
- Root Music San Francisco
- Santa Cruz Light Wells Santa Cruz
- Sebago Sound San Jose
- Sennheiser Research Labs Palo Alto
- Shubb Capos Rohnert Park
- Dave Smith Instruments Half Moon Bay
- Songbird San Francisco
- Sonic Solutions Novato
- Sonoma Wire Works Los Altos
- SoundCloud San Francisco
- Tone Pros Sound Labs Oakdale
- Tone Tubby Speakers San Rafael
- Toppobrillo Oakland
- Universal Audio Scotts Valley
- WCR Guitar Pickups Soulsbyville
- Wessell, Nickel & Gross Sacramento
- Zerosum Intertia Lakeport
- ZT Amplifiers Berkeley