Origin Effects Renames Its RevivalTREM to DELUXE61

October 7, 2021 · 7 sources

Origin Effects announced that its RevivalTREM Bias Tremolo pedal would be renamed the DELUXE61 Amp Tremolo & Drive. The company said the decision reflects the features of the pedal rather than any change to the circuit itself¹. MusicRadar reported the pedal was available immediately at $459¹.

The DELUXE61 is an all-analog amp recreation pedal built as a complete replica of a valve amp signal path, a tribute to the Fender Brown Deluxe²³. Its circuit includes an entire push-pull output stage with an output transformer and reactive load, using discrete, transistor-based circuitry throughout³. The drive circuit is derived from the company's RevivalDRIVE⁴.

Alongside the rename, Origin Effects made a slight adjustment to the DELUXE61's output level to match its Magnatone-inspired MAGMA57 pedal².

The pedal combines a drive channel with a bias tremolo section, and the two can be switched independently⁴:

• Two soft-relay footswitches, enabling the drive channel to run independent of the tremolo⁴
• A DRIVE control that behaves like the volume knob on a vintage non-master-volume amplifier, clean anticlockwise and more overdrive turned up³
• A MULTI switch that changes the range of the SPEED control, doubling or tripling the knob setting or a tempo entered via an external tap switch⁶
• A choppier "full wave" tremolo setting alongside the bias tremolo⁶
• Tap tempo and external switching through the F/SWITCH jack, with tip carrying tap and ring carrying tremolo enable⁶³

Because the tremolo is a bias tremolo, it responds to playing dynamics: played softly it sits deep in the tone, and played harder it naturally disappears and reappears as notes are held⁷.

Premier Guitar's reviewer found the drive channel "delicious," generating what the review called sweet and malleable low- to mid-gain drive and body, and judged the pedal "built almost absurdly well by stompbox standards," calling it a contender for the Rolls-Royce of pedal builds. The same review noted the price, at 430 dollars, was expensive⁴.

The pedal runs on 9V DC from a 2.1 mm center-negative adapter with no battery option, draws 100 mA, and carries a two-year manufacturer's warranty. It is designed and built in England⁶³.