TECH TIPS: GHOSTING

Ghosting Overdrive By John Dines – OE Product Manager   As we proudly announce the great Tony Iommi as an Origin Effects artist, it’s probably a good time to delve into what’s led him to switch off his 100W amps for a moment and choose the Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE. In addition to the great tones…

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Origin Effects Artist: Ian Allison

  Ian Allison is an uber-creative bassist with a flair for synth-pop arrangements. He’s also a member of the crew over at Scott’s Bass Lessons. We asked Ian about his Origin Effects Cali76 Stacked Edition and (now discontinued) Cali76-TX-LP compressor pedals. What’s a piece of studio gear that you cannot live without? For me, it’s…

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Guitar.com Review The RevivalTREM & MAGMA57

“What happens when Britain’s most intimidatingly high-class pedal maker branches out from compression and overdrive into vibrato and tremolo?”   Thank you to Guitar.com for their review of the RevivalTREM Bias Tremolo & MAGMA57 Amp Vibrato & Drive. “2020 was the year that Origin decided to get a bit more ambitious. After nailing compression and…

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RevivalDRIVE Compact Wins Guitarist Magazine GEAR OF THE YEAR!

Thank you to Guitarist Magazine for awarding the RevivalDRIVE Compact a ‘GEAR OF THE YEAR’ award in the Effects Pedal Category. We are honoured to be featured in the January 2021 issue. Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE Compact The original RevivalDRIVE Custom was an excellent, almost exhaustive evocation of vintage amp tones in a pedal. It was…

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RevivalTREM Wins PREMIER GUITAR – Gold Premier Gear Award!

“There may be more radical tremolos, but few achieve such musical seamlessness.” Some gear nerd debates get pretty pointless. Disputing the merits of different op-amps in two late-model RATs? Maybe that time would be better spent practicing. But tremolo circuits are another matter. The differences between bias, optical, and harmonic tremolo can be audible and…

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NAMM 2020 Round Up: RevivalTREM and Hot Rod Pedals Go Down a Storm

Origin Effects NAMM Booth 2020

Our Brand New Pedals Rocked The 2020 Winter NAMM Show We’ve just returned to a rather chilly Origin Effects headquarters from the 2020 NAMM Show which took over sunny Anaheim. A week of late nights, early mornings, worn eardrums, and sore throats was more than worth it for the opportunity to meet so many lovely…

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Press Release: Cali76-TX compressor reissue

Sought-after large-format Cali76 with transformer output stage set to return Buckinghamshire, UK (11 December 2019) – Origin Effects have just built their 10,000th Cali76 Compact Deluxe, the compressor pedal widely regarded as the gold standard for effects pedal compression. It’s a remarkable achievement for a small British company and shows how players worldwide have embraced…

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You Could Win Cali76 Compact Deluxe #10K

Win Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe 10K compressor limiter pedal

Celebrate this huge milestone with us! It’s been another busy year at Origin Effects HQ here in the heart of the English countryside as we’ve seen the demand for studio-grade compressors sky-rocket as well as a frenzy of orders for our RevivalDRIVE series. We’re really proud to announce that we have now produced over ten thousand…

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