Hanging out with Killers' bass player, Jake Blanton The Killers are one of the biggest rock bands to have emerged in the past 20 years with hits such as Mr Brightside, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young, and Human gracing the top of the charts all over the world. As well as working with the likes of [...] Continue Reading

The British music legend welcomed us into his studio In the past 25 years, no musician has epitomised Britishness quite as much as Graham Coxon. His out-of-the-box creativity combines with an intellectual wit brings to mind what is best about the UK. During his time in Britpop mega-group, Blur, to his solo work, Graham has always [...] Continue Reading

A New Limited Edition Pedal to Celebrate 10,000 Pedal Sales "Boutique pedal company, Origin Effects, is celebrating its 10,000th pedal sale - an impressive feat for a small team still hand-crafting all its pedals in-house as it has done from the beginning. To celebrate this achievement, Origin Effects has released a special edition of its [...] Continue Reading

These Stompboxes Have Been Carefully Considered to Work Best with Fender Tweed Amps Function band guitarist and tonehound, Ed Oleszko, recently contributed to a feature in The Guitar Magazine all about Fender Tweed amplifiers where he mentioned how great our Cali76-TX sounds with his Tweed combos. We got in touch with Ed to chat about amps [...] Continue Reading

Origin Effects Artists Share Their Pedalboards We've added a load more artists onto our Artists Page this month including lots of pedalboard shots... these boards, from Graham Coxon, London Grammer, Simple Minds, Right Said Fred, and Linda Taylor, are super-clean and feature some high-end stompboxes and switchers. Let's delve into the world of pro rigs... First [...] Continue Reading

Boutique Tone Can Be Addictive! This Player Shares His Collection of Cali76 and SlideRIG Pedals This week we received an email from possibly our biggest fan, Andy Christensen. He asked for some advice about his Cali76-G and mentioned that he owned no less than 7 Origin Effects compressor pedals! We had to see evidence and [...] Continue Reading

Boutique Essentials are Squeezed onto this Teeny Board I spotted this board on Instagram and wanted to jump into the screen and play around with this bad boy! Man, is it clean, neat, and full of boutique gems! WE had to contact the lucky guy who gets to lay this rig and know more about [...] Continue Reading

Solid Gold Tone Last year we produced a limited run of gold panelled Cali76-CD to be sold exclusively through Rogue Guitar Shop. These models were a smash hit and Rogue have ordered another 100 units! This time round we've chosen to make the pedals even more special by hand-stamping their serial numbers and we filmed a [...] Continue Reading

British Guitar Legend Gets Hold Of A SlideRIG-CD On a sunny day in late May, we received an order for a SlideRIG Compact Deluxe from a Mr Chris Rea – hoping that it wasn’t a coincidence and that we had indeed sold a compressor pedal to the British slide sovereign we confirmed the order. A few [...] Continue Reading

Due to further increased sales growth over 2017 and the expansion of our UK guitar pedal product range, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a PCB Layout and Design Engineer at our head Office in Thame, Oxfordshire. Working closely with the Executive Designer and reporting to the Senior Management team, the successful candidate will be [...] Continue Reading