Anyone have experience with an Origin Effects Deluxe '55?

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I'm looking for a pedal that can make my amp sound like a 5E3, and this one keeps coming up in all my searches. Anyone have experience with it? I really want something that does that warm, smooth transition from clean to breakup with guitar volume.
 
Not familiar with it, but have you checked out the Tech21 Blonde? My Liverpool is amazing.
 
The Blonde is fantastic, and is all analog, if that kind of thing matters to you. For Blackface tones, I've been using the Dream '65. I am sure their Woodrow 55 is equally as good.
 
They did a comparison vid at TPS for tweed in a pedal thing, I think there was the zvex 59or something that sounded good along with the deluxe55.

The Tech21 Blonde to me felt like it actually was intended to cope with Fender Blonde Bassman 6G6B sounds. I think it does that in spades. However they seem to market it towards tweed fender tones, where I found it fell short.
 
blonde fenders are pretty different than tweeds for the most part, seems odd they would name it blonde and market it as tweed.

ive heard that zvex is great, but havent tried one. its supposed to be a modded box of rock to sound more bassman and less marshall
 
Thanks for all of the suggestions!

I spent pretty much a whole day going through my collection of drive pedals and tried setting them up to sound like a 5E3, doing A-B comparisons with some nice tweed sounds on youtube that had caught my ear. Weirdly enough, it was the JHS PG-14 that seems to come closest. There's a 'push' knob that you can tweak to introduce some sort of saggy feel and loose bass. If you keep the gain low enough that you can clean right up with your volume knob and run that 'push' knob pretty high that seems to work well enough for what I want to hear to make me happy for the moment, although I'll also keep an eye out for some of the pedals mentioned to pop up for cheap.
 
I just sold a Gokko "Vintage Box" which is a knock off of a knock off, aka 'American Sound" by Joyo and a few other names. It actually sounded great running into the amp, but really came to life using it as a pre-amp into the power amp of an 80's Peavey Studio Pro 112. While I have only played a couple of late 50's Deluxe amps, (and it was a long time ago!) my opinion may not matter, but I was very impressed with the late 50's D-lux type tones, plus much more. It also has the character knob that changes the voicing. Actually, a great $35 pedal.

Sold it because I'm old, sick and I ain't gonna gig no mo, so need to start passing things along. The fella that bought it was a very nice, hipster looking fella in his 30's.He had just bought a keyboard amp for cheap and will use this a pre-amp for a toneful, inexpensive solution.
 
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