Multivox was an American-based synthesizer company since the mid-1970s until the 1980s. Originally it was founded in the mid-1940s as the guitar and amplifier manufacturing subsidiary of Peter Sorkin Music Company (Sorkin Music), a New York-based retailer/wholesaler. Then eventually it established separate corporate identity, and after the close of Sorkin Music in the mid-1970s, it continued in existence for fourteen years, according to the Blue Book of Guitar Values.[1] In addition to synthesizers, the company marketed several effects pedals. These included the Big Jam series guitar effects line.
They specialized in delivering Japanese-designed and built equipment to the American market.[2] They usually licensed from lesser-known[citation needed] Japanese companies, such as Hillwood, also known as Firstman, founded in 1972 by Kazuo Morioka, who later worked for Akai in the early 1980s.[3][4] Multivox were criticized as having design and circuitry extremely similar to but inferior to designs by Roland[citation needed]. Multivox ceased trading in the early 1980s having "faded into synth history", according to the Synthmuseum.[2]
MULTIVOX MX-75 dual voice synthesizer
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"MULTIVOX Electric Guitars". Blue Book of Guitar Values. Blue Book Publications, Inc. 2012. Source: Michael Wright, Guitar Stories, Volume One.
^ abMultivox, Synthmuseum
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^Mark Jenkins (2009), Analog Synthesizers, page 107, CRC Press
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