ORIGIN EFFECTS MAGMA57 & REVIVALTREM
Feb 05, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS RICHARD PURVIS
In less than a decade, Origin Effects has established itself as that most comforting of things: a great British luxury brand built on old-school engineering quality and heft. It’s surely no accident that its logo looks like something you’d see on the side of a steam train.
In 2020, however, the Buckinghamshirebased company got a little more ambitious.
After nailing compression and overdrive, things must have been getting boring, because the next step for Origin was a move into modulation: first with the RevivalTrem, inspired by the brown Fender Deluxe of the early 1960s and its power-valve bias tremolo; then with the Magma57, an unofficial tribute to the Magnatone 200 Series combos
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