guitar trem pedals - review?

[E.Bennett]

swamp-thang is a pretty successful attempt at capturing the fender brown face trem sound.

[shakestheclown]

Try running your tremolo in the amp's effects loop instead of in the regular pedal chain.

[joninc]

I am a big fan of the diamond trek pedal. Great buttery tone and suPer versatile.
Tap tempo is sweet too.

[vvv]

I am a big fan of the diamond trek pedal.

I reckon you meant trem ...

( I mean, took me a cuppla googles to figure that out. )

[Jeff White]

The analogman? modified Boss TR-2 is kind of the bee's knees. I've been using mine for about a year now.
http://www.buyanalogman.com/Boss_TR_2_S ... -super.htm

Jeff

[Recycled_Brains]

SupaTrem is awesome. Versatile. Internal trimpots to tailor it to your sound.

Only issue are, (a) is that it adds a pretty noticeable boost in the high end when it's behind an overdrive or fuzz pedal. I haven't fig'd out how to tame it, but I'm working on it, and (b) it's HUGE. Take up a lot of space on the pedal board.

[top_ape]

The Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter

agree!

Really useful controls, tap tempo, wide range of speeds, no noise, pretty transparent and built like a tank. I love mine.

[losthighway]

Sorry to throw in another option but I love my Freakshow Ripple. Its got a little boost in it so you don't get lost, which was not true of my old Boss Tremolo.

[casey campbell]

The Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter satisfies my needs. I listened to demos of them all and it does different envelopes really well and stutters like anything. I got it because I miss the tremolo on the AC-15 I used to have, and I use the Shape Shifter for that and other things all the time now. I think it hits a sweet spot of price and features. The Seek Trem is cool but it sacrifices some of the EZ envelope shaping tools in order to have that sequencer. It was also a lot more expensive.

couldn't agree more. love my shape shifter. great tap tempo tremolo for the price. very easy to use and very tweakable.

[WhinyLittleRunt]

Look into the Black Cat Mini Trem; that's a nice pedal, very smooth effect with tone shaping capability. Really nice effect. Kicks the crap out of amp tremolo any day...

www.blackcatpedals.com

[groover]

The Sparkle Drive Tremolo is great for the Fender type Vibrato [sic]. It actually uses an opto-isolator circuit like BF Fender amps. It has a wide range of adjustment, especially the newer 4-knob version.

[CBA713]

DR. SCIENTIST TREMOLESSENCE!


Otherwise I've seen the Boss TR-2 hold its ground on pedalboards with piles of boutique stuff.

Still... Dr. Scientist.


Check him here: www.ilovefuzz.com You can communicate with him directly! Heckuva guy!

C

[roscoenyc]

Another vote for the SupaTrem.

the Mad Professor Mellow Yellow Tremolo is a great sounding box. It has an output control for gain matching. My current favorite.

The 4 knob Voodoo Labs one is very good also for the money.

[Brett Siler]

I hear good things about the danelectro trems, but haven't used one.

I've got the Danelectro Tuna Melt and rate it highly for such a budget pedal. I bought it to use with my Pianet T electric piano, but it's equally useful on guitar. I'm a fan of the hard/soft switch for those DJ-mixer-transformer / pickup-selector-switch on/off effects when in hard mode.

Demo on youtube which gives a good idea of the sounds it can do : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtA9quZstLs

As far as bang for buck goes, I agree. Same with the newer Danelectro cool cat tremelo. I think they sound great.

[losthighway]

This thread affirms my belief that we live in an age with more amazing stomp boxes than anyone has time to play. Which is really cool. So many good choices.