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Re: OT Tremelos, Choppers and Panners



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 Oh yeh, I do loves me some tremolo

 The technique Rick referred to  involves using three amps with the center amp non tremolo and the right and left amps with tremolo , I’ll use a vibrolux and a Vox ac 10 for the tremolos with there speeds slightly offset or widely offset, one fast and one slow.  The center amp, usually a Princeton reverb sometimes adds a third tremolo to the mix. The way I split the signal is from a Fulltone stereo chorus being fed from a DL-4, since the chorus has a mono input, I run the unused output from the DL-4 to the center amp. I’ll then add a bit of chorus set to more of a Leslie type fast vibrato. The sound is Huuuge, and the multiple tremolos have an effect of playing tricks on the mind, because after a while you can’t distinguish which amp is doing what.  I’ve also  been using a technique that I believe I mentioned previously using a CC pedal controlling loop feed back  to create radical tremolo effects by rocking the CC pedal back and forth in a rhythmic way to create tremolo by subtraction  on the loop itself. Any looper with variable feedback will work. Lastly any fender or vox style amp tremolo can be modified to increase the speed range. All of my amps can do much slower tremolo than stock units. Also different tremolos give different responses Optical style tremolo as found in fender amps is the standard but bias style tremolos like the vox has are really cool as well, perhaps a bit steeper in its peaks and valleys. I also like the Shape shifter which I sold because it was redundant to my amp trems and the M-13 I got a few months back takes care of everything else. The shape shifter does have a few really cool tem tricks up its sleeve like a very metallic sounding hard tremolo that has very steep peaks and valleys and much control over the wave shape, speed  etc… And it can go really slow and deep allowing such techniques as striking notes in the valleys to create a rhythmic auto volume swell effect.

Bill