The Ibanez effect pedals were licensed from the Nisshin Onpa Company who own the Maxon brand.
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Also, Maxon, who produced the original Tube Screamer pedals for the Ibanez brand in the 1970s and 1980s, produce their own version of the Tube Screamer.
maxon motors became known to a broader public when its products were chosen by the NASA for the Mars rover projects Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity.
A series of company takeovers were to follow, the largest acquisitions including the American Diehl Graphsoft (now Nemetschek Vectorworks) and MAXON Computer with its Cinema 4D software for visualization and animation.