Jen
Jen
Also known as: Jen Elettronica, Jen Electronics
UnclaimedJen Elettronica S.r.l. was an Italian music electronics manufacturer founded in 1968 in Pescara, Italy, by former management of EME. The company is best known for its wah pedals, including the Jen Cry Baby, Mister Cry Baby, and Cry Baby Super, which it produced throughout the 1970s. Jen built pedals under contract for Vox and Thomas Organ, and because the Cry Baby name had never been trademarke...
Jen Elettronica S.r.l. was an Italian music electronics manufacturer founded in 1968 in Pescara, Italy, by former management of EME. The company is best known for its wah pedals, including the Jen Cry Baby, Mister Cry Baby, and Cry Baby Super, which it produced throughout the 1970s. Jen built pedals under contract for Vox and Thomas Organ, and because the Cry Baby name had never been trademarked by Thomas Organ, Jen also sold the wahs under its own name. The Italian-made Jen wahs are prized by vintage collectors, particularly units equipped with the red Fasel inductor.
Beyond effects, Jen produced a small line of keyboards and analog synthesizers. The monophonic SX1000 Synthetone, introduced in 1978, was one of the more affordable analog synths available in Europe at the time and featured a single oscillator with sawtooth, square, and pulse waveforms plus a white/pink noise generator. Jen followed it with the SX-2000 Synthetone (designed to sit atop an organ), the polyphonic Synx 508 string synth, the Piano 73 electric piano, and the Carousel C-450, a dual-manual combo organ with a built-in mono synth.
Jen's pedal operations were absorbed by Jim Dunlop at the end of the 1970s, with Dunlop carrying the Cry Baby name forward. The Jen brand has since become a fixture of the vintage market, with its pedals and keyboards traded through shops like Reverb and covered in retrospectives on sites like Sound on Sound and Vintage Synth Explorer.
Jen has 13 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Synthesizers, Fuzz Effects Pedals, and Wah Pedals. Their gear is featured by 27 artists, with the strongest followings in Electronic, Rock, and Hip Hop. Notable users include Kirk Hammett, Robert Smith, and John Squire.
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