Caroline Guitar Company Arigato vs Origin Effects MAGMA57 Amp Vibrato & Drive
The Caroline Guitar Company Arigato and the Origin Effects MAGMA57 Amp Vibrato & Drive are both pedals. The Caroline Guitar Company Arigato leans dynamic and modulated. The Origin Effects MAGMA57 Amp Vibrato & Drive leans transparent and edge of breakup. Current prices: $219 vs $394.58.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.34% — somewhat different
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$219via Reverb
$394.58via Reverb
The Caroline Guitar Company ARIGATO is a 4-stage analog OTA-based phaser and vibrato pedal designed with intentionally off-balance LFO behavior for quirky, expressive modulation. Based on the Somersault platform but modified to deliver phaser and vibrato rather than chorus. The dual LFOs can be pushed into wild, unstable territory for pitch-bending vibrato effects, and with Feedback turned up produces pseudo auto-wah sounds. Running 100% wet enables pure pitch vibrato with no dry signal blend. Boutique US construction.
The Origin Effects Magma57 Vibrato Drive is a stompbox recreation of the pitch-vibrato-equipped Magnatone combo amplifiers from the late 1950s, built on the same amp-modeling analog circuitry as Origin's RevivalDRIVE platform but focused specifically on that one amp's signature onboard effect. Output, Tone, and Drive controls cover a wide range from clean jazz tones through big, smooth cleans to authentic old-school overdrive character, while Intensity and Speed controls with three-way switches shape the pitch-shifting vibrato itself. A post-drive EQ section tailors the output for Plexi-style, Blackface-style, or full-range flat-response amp setups. It's aimed at players wanting genuinely lower-gain, characterful vintage tones with Magnatone's distinctive true pitch vibrato rather than ordinary tremolo.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Indie
- Shoegaze
- Experimental
- Jazz
- Rock
- Country
- Blues
- dynamic
- modulated
- transparent
- edge of breakup
- spring
- full