Third Man Hardware

Jack White tried to get a pedal kit off the ground with the Michigan company Heathkit in the late 1990s, but that project never shipped; Third Man Hardware, launched years later out of Third Man Records' Detroit and Nashville operations, is what eventually came from that idea. The Fuzz-a-tron, built loosely on the abandoned Heathkit design, was an early release, and White has stayed hands-on with development since, road- testing prototypes on tour before they reach production. Nearly every Third Man Hardware pedal is a collaboration — with MXR, Eventide, Beetronics, Donner and others — rather than something built entirely in-house, which makes each release a genuinely different circuit rather than a rebadge. We cover most of these collaborations as they're announced. Here's what we've written.