Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress effects pedal (1976–1981)
The Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter Matrix, designed in 1975–1976 by David Cockerell, was the first ever flanger to be made in a pedal format.
This particular version was available between 1976 and 1981. “Flanger/Filter Matrix” is in ITC Serif Gothic. Knob labels are in all-caps Futura. The Electro-Harmonix logo is in Skjald, see the dedicated post.
Note: The unidentified type of the main Electric Mistress logo remains something of a mystery. Upon checking various forums, it’s been hypothesised that this typeface is either custom lettering, or a modified version of an existing type such as DeCoro or similar.
[Edit: it’s Raflo, see comments.]
The Deluxe Electric Mistress was offered along side the original Mistress between 1978 and 1981 and later reissued in 1999, and now is discontinued.
Deluxe Electric Mistress XO, 2015
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Thanks for this contribution!
I’m pleased to say that I can contribute to solving this puzzle. The mystery typeface used for the Electric Mistress logo is called Raflo. It was designed by Jean de la Patellière and selected by Mecanorma, the French competitor to Letraset, as a contest winner in 1973. It doesn’t have caps, just lowercase letters and numerals. Apparently it didn’t sell well – Raflo disappeared from Mecanorma’s catalogs already after a few years. I don’t think there’s a digitization.
The first version of the Electric Mistress from late 1975 or 1976 used Broadway, alongside ITC Serif Gothic.
Electro-Harmonix also used Raflo for the Echoflanger and the Zipper Envelope Follower (1977).
Here’s an ad for the Electric Mistress from 1977: “Made on Earth for rising stars” is set in Friz Quadrata. The copy is in ITC Avant Garde Gothic.