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What does MXR stand for?

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Re: What does MXR stand for?

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You heard me.
I was just thinking that yesterday and didn't want to ask. Thanks for stepping up!!
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WHAT! it cant be mixer maybe its..................... Massive Xtreme Rectumness which means awesome in swahili
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So was their first product a mixer or something? Honestly, I feel a little let down.
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i call bull****.


got any sources to back that up, pal?
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i have always wondered that maybe it doesnt stand for anything?
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maybe it's initials of some pople who had something to do with designig etc.
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Michael Xavier Reed was the man who invented the first MXR pedal, word has it that he was killed and the design stolen from his widow and the thiefs had the cheek to call the company MXR.
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i call bull****.

got any sources to back that up, pal?
He's allowed his opinion
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Haha!!! Awesome!
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i call bull****.


got any sources to back that up, pal?
yup.

From "Stompbox" by Art Thompson
ISBN: 0-87930-479-0

"One day I was working on design for a mixer that I thought might have commercial value, and one of our friends came and said "You ought to call you company MXR, for mixer".
Keith Barr - Cofounder MXR
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