Re: vibrato tremolo

["Mr. Tough" <electricfriends@hotmail.com>]

Yeah, I just bought a vibrator myself last week. I haven't busted it out 
and 
used it yet, is it any good? I've never heard of the Rocktek brand before 
seeing it but at the time I thought $50 was too good of a price.

Here's a thing to remember about vibrato/tremolo and which is which:

  The "whammy bar" on a guitar is also known as a Tremolo Bar. That's the 
official name for it. That's also a bold faced lie. The tremolo bar allows 
us do the same things that a vibrato pedal does. This has caused me much 
confusion and I'm not even sure I know anything anymore.

   If something was vibrating (very violently)in relationship to you, 
there 
would be some sort of a doppler effect that would make the pitch waver 
very 
slighty. I think that's what a vibrato effect is supposed to simulate.

   If you were very frightened, and were trembling in a corner, your voice 
would probably waver in volume. Get it? Tremolo!

Mr. Tough


>From: "mark givens" <markeg@ivillage.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: "Electronic music "gearhead" list" <SYNTH-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
>CC: loopers-delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: vibrato tremolo
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:33:43 -0700
>
>
>dear list: I just got my rocktek vibrator . Its great great for 20.00.  I 
>really like it. Now , oive been told that most so called tremolo pedals 
>are 
>actually vibrato pedals (or is it the other way round) and that there is 
>a 
>difference . I see that there is a pedal that does both. what is the 
>difference. Anyway i like this so much I may upgrade in about a year to 
>the 
>dod pedal with the third nob for waveform control .or this other which 
>says 
>it does both. I will use this one to imitate a dj's "transform" which is 
>where a dj crossfades quickly so as to cuase parts of the sound to drop 
>in 
>or out. this is also sometimes accompanied with a pitch bend at the same 
>time.my mixer has a botton"transform" but it is so noisy i cant record 
>with 
>it. so i end up using the fader and fading to silence on channel 2 and 
>back 
>quickly.now ill just use this.
>

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