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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…

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…

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…

If we tone-chasers had a pound for every hour we’ve spent discussing the finer points of electric guitar noises, we could all afford a pedal with a horse on it and an amp full of melted plastic. We find ourselves consumed by the issues of saturation, sag and signal path probably more than those of…

Today’s the day! We are proud to announce the release of not one but two bass overdrive and preamp pedals. The Origin Effects BassRIG pedals use our ground-breaking Analogue Amp Recreation circuitry to offer some of history’s greatest bass tones. With an entire valve amp circuit recreated in miniature, clean blend and an analogue cabinet-simulated…

If you follow what we do at Origin Effects, you’ll have seen us release a couple of pedals that had “Hot Rod” written in big letters on the front. But what does it mean? Is it just a cool name, or a marketing buzzword? Or is it something bigger than that? Obviously it’s the latter.…

View the article here: Guitar World – RD Compact Hot Rod Revival of the Fittest By Paul Riario THE UNSHAKABLE FEALTY many a guitarist has for their favorite dirt device is a hard thing to shatter. No doubt, when a new type of gain pedal emerges, it’s an uphill battle to persuade these stompbox stalwarts…

You may have noticed that we’re making a big deal of our new Cali76 Stacked Edition Inverted Black compressor. It may only be a fancy new finish for an already popular pedal, but it seems like a good excuse to tell you why we think it’s awesome, and why more is more when it comes…