4ms
4ms
Also known as: 4ms Pedals, 4ms Company
Unclaimed4ms Company is a designer and manufacturer of audio electronics based in Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in 1996 near Chicago by Dan Green as 3ms Pedals, a boutique effects pedal maker, and was renamed 4ms Company in 2002. After relocating to Austin, Texas in 2009, the brand began designing Eurorack modules, and moved again to Portland in 2012, where it operates among the West Coast c...
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4ms Company is a designer and manufacturer of audio electronics based in Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in 1996 near Chicago by Dan Green as 3ms Pedals, a boutique effects pedal maker, and was renamed 4ms Company in 2002. After relocating to Austin, Texas in 2009, the brand began designing Eurorack modules, and moved again to Portland in 2012, where it operates among the West Coast community of synthesizer builders.
The brand is best known for Eurorack modular synthesizer gear that tends to reinterpret familiar ideas in unconventional ways. Notable modules include the Spectral Multiband Resonator (SMR), Dual Looping Delay (DLD), Rotating Clock Divider, QCD Quad Clock Distributor, and the Row Power line of bus boards. More recent releases include the MetaModule virtual patch player, the Catalyst Sequencer and Catalyst Controller, and the Sampler module.
Beyond full modules, 4ms produces Pods — compact skiff-style cases for small modular systems — along with DIY kits of many of their designs, keeping ties to their hobbyist and builder roots. They continue to make a small number of effects pedals alongside the modular catalog.
4ms has 35 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Modular Synthesizers, Guitar Synth Pedals, and Tabletop Synthesizers. Their gear is featured by 28 artists, with the strongest followings in Electronic, Rock, and Pop. Notable users include Andrew Huang, Richard Devine, and BT. 4ms's catalog spans the full price spectrum — from entry-level options to high-end flagships.
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