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We are proud to announce the release of our new Halcyon Gold Overdrive, an adaptive overdrive pedal based on the Klon® Centaur®. The latest pedal to feature our proprietary Adaptive Circuitry, the Halcyon Gold Overdrive’s unique design allows it to adapt its voicing in response to pick attack and volume knob changes. We have gone…

When we released the Halcyon Green Overdrive in July 2022, we also debuted our Adaptive Circuitry. This proprietary technology allows the all-analogue pedal to adjust its voicing in response to volume knob changes and playing dynamics, offering a never-before-seen “cleaning up from the volume knob” experience.  We know this is a bit of a pedal…

June 28th, 2023 |  John Dines, Jacob Holdsworth, Simon Keats, Joe Biggs, Origin Effects Ask us Anything Questions / Answers: Do you have plans to bring back the large-format Cali76 pedals, either as a limited edition or as a standard production pedal? Will you make a fuzz pedal? What are your favourite fuzz pedals? Do…

June 15th, 2023 |  John Dines Bassists can be pretty good at keeping it simple, especially when compared to guitarists. Certainly, in mainstream music, there’s an appreciation of finding an instrument and a signal path that works, then sticking to it.  But simple rigs still require complicated decisions. For a start, guitarists almost all agree…

May 5th, 2023 |  John Dines   We recently launched our DCX BOOST and DCX BASS pedals and we’re thrilled to see how well they have been received. It’s great to see so many guitarists and bassists trying them out in all sorts or different rigs, so we’re here to talk about signal chain order…

April 14th, 2023 |  John Dines So, you want to record at home? You’ve got a decent computer running your choice of DAW, you bought an audio interface, so you’re good to go, right? But what do you plug into it? This is actually one of the few areas of guitar gear where there isn’t…

Who are you and what do you do?
 TI’m Trace Foster and I’m a guitar technician and player/songwriter/producer. I’ve been in the industry for 40 years now.   Where did you start from, what’s your musical origin story? 
 I grew up outside of Chicago in Rockford, Illinois (Cheap Trick territory). I’ve been playing guitar…

March 17th, 2023 |  John Dines   We spend a lot of time talking about compressors. Rightly so – our Cali76 pedals are accurate recreations of the famous 1176 studio compressor, probably the most widely used studio compressor there is. Electric guitar and bass players know all about this already, and we’ve covered these uses…

February 23rd, 2023 |  John Dines Origin Effects are exhibiting at The Guitar Show, Birmingham, UK this weekend – on Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of February 2023. If you’re in the UK and are planning to come along, here’s a taste of what you can check out at our stand. If not,…