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Cali76-CD Nominated Best Stomp Box In Gear Of The Year Awards
The Guitar Magazine Picks The Cali76 Compact Deluxe For The Best Stomp Box Category “As another year draws to a close, it’s time to look back on the new guitars, amplifiers, effects and accessories that rocked your world in 2017. We’ve whittled the year in gear down to a shortlist, and now it’s time for…
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Readers’ Pedalboards #12 “Big Bertha”
Readers’ Pedalboards #12 “Big Bertha” Sometimes you see a pedalboard and just think “Where do you even begin to get your head around all of those buttons?!” This was the case with Allen Bays’ board which we spotted on Instagram. The bottom row of loopers and midi switchers had a story to tell so we contacted…
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The Guitar Magazine Gives The Cali76-CD Full Marks
Read this 10/10 Review of our Cali76 Compact Deluxe Compressor Pedal This summer we sent off a Cali76-CD, our flagship studio-style compressor pedal, to The Guitar Magazine to get reviewed. When the review was published in August’s issue we hurried down to our local newsagents to pick up a copy and flicked through to find the…
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Hanging Out With The Killers
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…
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A Visit to Graham Coxon’s Home Studio
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…
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Origin Effects Celebrates 10k Sales with its Cali76 Compact Deluxe Union Jack Pedal
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…
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Readers’ Pedalboards #11 Tweed Tone Tips
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…
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Pedalboards of the Stars
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 up…
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Is This Our Biggest Fan? Guitarist Displays His 7 Origin Effects Pedals
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…
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