Nothing that beats that blast of sound coming back at you when you play a guitar through an amplifier. That squeal of feedback and crunch of distortion – it’s what makes the electric guitar ...

In the historical timeline of guitar effects, long before pedals of any kind were commonplace, the effects that guitarists utilised were mainly built into their amplifiers, namely tremolo and reverb.

Origin Effects has introduced the Deluxe 55 – the latest installment in its growing line of stompboxes that seek to bottle vintage tones. The firm is already adept at leafing through the history ...