Jen

Jen

Also known as: Jen Elettronica, Jen Electronics

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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 trademarke...

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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.

Artists Who Use Jen

Kirk Hammett uses 1 Jen product

Kirk Hammett

Guitarist · Metallica

Robert Smith uses 1 Jen product

Robert Smith

Singer, Guitarist · The Cure

John Squire uses 1 Jen product

John Squire

Guitarist · Oasis

Madlib uses 1 Jen product

Madlib

Rapper, Music Producer · Madvillain

Adrian Utley uses 1 Jen product

Adrian Utley

Guitarist, Keyboardist · Portishead

Glenn Danzig uses 1 Jen product

Glenn Danzig

Singer, Guitarist · Misfits

Broadcast uses 1 Jen product

Broadcast

Peter Gabriel uses 1 Jen product

Peter Gabriel

Singer, Keyboardist · Genesis

John Wetton uses 1 Jen product

John Wetton

Singer, Guitarist · King Crimson

Nigel Godrich uses 1 Jen product

Nigel Godrich

Music Producer · Radiohead

Olafur Arnalds uses 1 Jen product

Olafur Arnalds

Keyboardist, Composer

Legowelt uses 1 Jen product

Legowelt

Music Producer

The Future Sound of London uses 1 Jen product

The Future Sound of London

Music Producer · Vangelis & The Future Sound of London

Caribou uses 1 Jen product

Caribou

Music Producer

Plaid uses 1 Jen product

Plaid

Music Producer

Eivind Aarset uses 1 Jen product

Eivind Aarset

Guitarist

Bernie Marsden uses 1 Jen product

Bernie Marsden

Guitarist · Whitesnake

Pete Cannon uses 1 Jen product

Pete Cannon

Music Producer

Mark Bell uses 1 Jen product

Mark Bell

Music Producer · LFO

Faris Badwan uses 1 Jen product

Faris Badwan

Singer · The Horrors

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