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Artist Interview: Scott Hansen (Tycho)
What’s your musical origin story? My name is Scott Hansen. I am a musician and visual artist. I started out playing around with drum machines and samplers in the late 1990’s and progressed on to keyboards and finally guitar. I didn’t think of myself as a musician; I mainly got into music just to learn how…
Tone Mob Podcast: Origin Effects
Origin Effects Product Manager, John Dines, was recently invited onto the Tone Mob Podcast to talk about the Origins of Origin Effects, the new Halcyon and how he got to be our Product Manager. “Here we go! This week I have John Dines from Origin Effects on the show this week to discuss his musical…
TECH TIPS: The Halcyon Green Overdrive’s ADAPT Switch – What It’s Really Doing For Your Tone
August 19th, 2022 | John Dines Hopefully by now you’ve spotted our latest pedal release, the Halcyon Green Overdrive. In fact, if you’re part of the online guitar forum community, you may have even been part of a discussion about why we’ve made a pedal inspired by the Ibanez® TS808 Tube Screamer®, and what…
Press Release – Halcyon Green Overdrive Product Release
Buckinghamshire, UK, 26th July 2022 9:00 BST– We are proud to release our Halcyon Green Overdrive pedal, featuring our new Adaptive circuitry. This unique design allows this simple pedal to adapt its voicing in response to pick attack and volume changes, making it possibly the most dynamic and interactive overdriveout there. Yes, we’ve taken the…
TECH TIPS: From Pedalboard to Outboard Using the Cali76 in Your Home Studio
If you’re an owner (or tyre-kicker) of Origin Effects pedals, you’ll almost certainly have heard our claims of “studio quality compression in a pedal”. It’s what we’ve built our entire reputation on and it’s something we take very seriously. Since Origin Effects founder, Simon Keats, first hooked up some Urei® 1176® rack compressors at home…
Artist Interview: Jesse Zuretti
Who are you and what do you do? I’m Jesse Zuretti, an award-winning film, series and game composer, most notably for Marvel over the last 4 years. I work full-time to be a part of creating stories for productions, using various instruments and tools. I also compose for producers and bands, such as Jens Bogren…
TECH TIP: Amp in the Room or Room in the Amp?
ATTENTION! This article contains sound clips. We recommend headphones or studio monitors. We’ve talked a lot about recreating the tones and behaviour of classic amps, because that’s one of our favourite things to do at Origin Effects. We’ve dedicated numerous pedals to this endeavour – with great success – but, sometimes, how you incorporate these…
TECH TIPS: I Bought a RevivalDRIVE, Now Where Do I Put It?
Hopefully you’ve read a few of our TECH Tips articles by now, where we’ve covered topics like compression, recreating amps inside pedals and demystifying the extravagances of the RevivalDRIVE. It’s these last two topics that this month’s Tech Tips follows on from. Let’s say you’ve done as you’re told and bought a RevivalDRIVE to replace…
Artist Interview: Mike Exeter
Welcome to the first Origin Effects Artist Profile. In this series, we are giving you a window into the lives and work of some of our favourite artists. First up, we have Grammy-winning producer and long-time friend of Origin Effects, Mike Exeter, who has had the privilege of working with some of Rock and Metal’s…