Eden Electronics

Eden Amplification (previously known as Eden Electronics) is a bass amplification company that began in 1976. The company takes its name from Eden Prairie, where the idea for the company was conceived. Eden designs and manufactures high-end bass amplification systems. This includes bass amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, power amps, bass pedals, and bass cabinets. Its most famous series of products include World Tour Amplifiers and D-series Cabinets. Eden's reputation was founded on the fact that everything was designed and built "in-house", including the speakers (a very rare feat by any manufacturer).

Eden amplifiers are used by a variety of musicians but are primarily favored by those people who are defined as "player's players" including many session musicians and technical recording artists. Notable recording artists include bass players Mike Rutherford from the progressive rock band Genesis and the 1980s soft rock group Mike and the Mechanics, Phil Lesh formerly of the Grateful Dead, and Mike Gordon of Phish. Users of Eden equipment span a wide variety of musical style from jazz and country to heavy rock.

Eden was founded in 1976 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 12 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Originally, Eden designed and manufactured sound-reinforcement (public address) systems, in particular speaker cabinets and then drivers, whose popularity grew amonst sound engineers and with musicians.

After a short initial period building such specialist equipment, the company realizd the popularity that their cabinet products were gaining with bass players. The company was also involved in a side project, designed a new type of cabinet for SWR, to be called the Goliath cabinet, considered by some to be the industry standard in cabinet design and tone.

Eden and its amplifier design also developed in parallel to its expanding cabinet business and moved from sound reenforcement to specialize in the bass sector of the music market. Maintaining a position that good bass amplification should deliver clear and uncoloured tone with a lot of headroom, the Eden World Tour product line eventually emerged.

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