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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