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Per wrote: "A fav of mine a well. The first one I use was the pickup toggle switch on my Gibson Les Paul guitar." I LOVE that effect, Per. I have a little miniature Taiwanese copy of a Les Paul with two tiny , fully functional humbuckers in it. On the head stock, which looks totally accurate (they did a great job copying a famous guitar, visually speaking) it has a decal that says "Tender" in the identical scipt of the Fender Stratocaster....go figure. Anyway, I've gotten quite good at using my fingers to toggle between the pickups as you say and then use both feet as a kind of syncopated double bass drum dealy where I'm turning octivers, octave fuzzes and fuzzed boxes on and off. along with octave manipulation of the Line 6 half speed/regular speed/double speed petal, I can get some really intersesting and unusual rhythms that are all manually controlled. ******** Five years ago when I was touring my Translucent Dayglo Lime Green Plastic show, I found a translucent acrilyc dayglo bright green (glow under blacklight) version of some heavy metal guitar that was heavier than hell and had a very, very pronounced square wave tremelo when you manipulated the pickups. At the time, they were blowing it out at $300 and I balked and it sold. I regret that mistake to this day. You hardly ever see them anymore...........if you do , they are hideously expensive and/or hideously expensive AND beat to hell (Acrilyc instruments are not forgiving). I'd give my first born (not to bad a bet as I'm not going to have children) to find a Daylgo Translucent Orange Acrylic Guitar. I"m in the process of huniting up a Dayglo ORange (not translucent but UV active) 16" shell and 12" or 10" shell so that I can make myself a miniature looping drum set that will nest inside of each other for transport. For a while, an English company was carrying both a Les Paul style knockoff and a Fender 5 String bass knockoff in Translucent UV Active Purple Acrylic but the shipping from England was just exhorbitant (thank god, only for us, sorry Andy, Steve, Os, Theo, Gareth, et. al. the pound has really dropped against the pound recently. We've been unable to buy things from the UK for five straight years now because the dollar has been so week. Okay, that was tangent, but a delicious one. I want to get that 5 string purple bass, rip the frets off of the fretboarrd and then add one of these Blue LED fretboard lighters (because you CANNOT see a fretless instrument when you are only illuminated by UV light)........................roll most of the bass off of that puppy and play dubstyley at the next Loopfestival...................... A pipe dream , but who knows. so, yeah, pickup switches that act as manual TREMELOS