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We’ve Got Chris Rea On Board!
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…
We’re Hiring – PCB Layout Design Engineer Needed
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…
Readers’ Pedalboards #9 Ready To Rock n Roll
This Pedalboard is Built for Rock n Roll Pickin Carsten from our Danish dealer, Pedaler.eu, dropped us an email with some photos of this tidy little board they just built for a customer. Here’s what Carsten had to say: “Greetings from Denmark… just finished a new board with Cali76-CD. The board is for a musician (Gert Mikkelsen) in…
Readers’ Pedalboards #8 Bass Board Built With Precision
This Player’s Board is the Perfect Match for his Vintage Precision Basses Recently, we saw posts on Facebook from one of our customers, Matt Littell, who describes himself as “a huge supporter and promoter of your amazing Cali76 compressor!”. We asked to feature his pedalboard in our Readers’ Pedalboards articles so he sent us a…
More Guitarists Join The Ranks – Pearl Jam, The Who, Train, And More…
Stone Gossard, Jon Button, And Hector Maldonado Add Origin Effects Pedals to their Pedalboards We’ve had a flood of new artists land on our doorstep recently including guitarists from Pearl Jam, Everything Everything, Train, The Who, and State Champs to name just a few. It’s always great to see guitarists including our effects pedals in…
Readers’ Pedalboards #7 Electrics, Steels, and Pedals
A Pedal Board Designed For Both Electric & Steel Guitar We got tagged on our Facebook Page by Luke Cyrus Goetze who had made this video of his superb lap steel skills using our Cali76-CD. We were so impressed with Luke’s tone that we contacted him for details on his rig and fortunately he replied…
‘The Who’ Bring In New Bass Player But Keep The Cali76
Jon Button Uses His Cali76 With The Who As Pino Takes His Cali76 On The Road With John Mayer On a busy Friday, toward the end of March, we were pleasantly surprised to receive an email from Michael Kaye, guitar tech for The Who. Michael informed us that Pino Palladino and his Cali76 have moved on to perform…
Readers’ Pedalboards #6 Holy Trinity of Boutique Drives
Boutique Drive and Compressor Pedals are Combined with Innovative Digital Delay, Filters, and Modulation Effects Hands up – I spend perhaps too much time on Instagram checking out pedal boards! This week my jaw dropped when I spotted this incredibly clean board from Jeremy Knibbs, guitarist in Canadian power pop band, Elvyn. When you see Jeremy’s…
Stars Bid Farewell To Rock n’ Roll Royalty, Chuck Berry, Who Dies Aged 90
Celebrities and fellow musicians react to the news that music legend, Chuck Berry, dies at his home aged 90 years old This weekend the world remembered a musician who will go down in history for changing the musical landscape forever. On March 19th, 2017 it was announced that Chuck Berry had passed away at his…