tremolo pedal

[bluesaholic]

Is there a tremolo pedal "Kit" available???
Thanks,Terry

[Strat Cat]

BYOC Tremolo Kit

[Rickenjangle]

I'll go one better...is there a clone of the classic Boss PN-2 pedal available? That one is stereo and has the option of a square or triangle wave as well as the pan option.

I had one years ago, got it for $35 clams and then sold it years later for $140...now I want one but am too cheap to pay the minimum $150 for it.

[Kap'n]

The PN-2 sounds decent, but I found it had introduced sound into my chain, unless it was placed following a buffered pedal. Weird, but true.

When I use pedal trem, I use a Kaden Fluttertone, that I picked up cheaply used. Apparently they don't hold their value, but it sounds pretty good to me, it's got a good range of speed and depth, and it's got a separate volume control to make up for losses.

[bluesaholic]

Thanks Strat Cat...BYOC looks intersting..

[JAM]

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/...=143&Itemid=26

Stereo w/Triangle and Square wave options

[Offshore Angler]

You can usually do OK with a digital chorus pedal as well.

[Rickenjangle]

OSA, my chorus pedal bores me to tears. It isn't thick and buttery but cold and glassy.

I want to get the hard-square-wave strobo-sound that you can get, but also to be able to get Fender and Vox-style classic tremolo.

[Don]

I bought a used Voodoo Lab Tremolo pedal for about the price of the BYOC kit.

It' built well and sounds okay (though not as good as an old Fender amp).

I set the volume and wave form where I like them and removed the knobs.

The drawback is the range of the speed and intensity controls. There's too much range. All the speed variation that I need is in a 5 degree portion of the control at about 3 o'clock. It drives me nuts.

I'm tempted by the BYOC kit.

[Kap'n]

All the speed variation that I need is in a 5 degree portion of the control at about 3 o'clock. It drives me nuts.

One of the problems with a lot of modern trems is that the speed control ideally should be a reverse-audio-taper pot, something that's in pretty short supply these days.

[Scablander]

One of the problems with a lot of modern trems is that the speed control ideally should be a reverse-audio-taper pot, something that's in pretty short supply these days.

Check Small Bear Electronics. They carry some reverse-audio-taper pots.

[Kap'n]

Check Small Bear Electronics. They carry some reverse-audio-taper pots.

Yep. Weber's got one, too, which is probably a 3 meg RA (Fender value). It depends on what circuit/value you have/need.

[bluesaholic]

reverse-audio taper-pots???

[Kap'n]

Yep.

Linear taper pots achieve 50% of their resistance change at 50% of rotation.

Audio/analog pots achieve between 10-30% of their resistance change at 50% of their rotation.

Reverse-analog pots achieve between 70-90% of their resistance change at 50% of their rotation.

It all has to do with how we perceive speed change in tremolo.

[Offshore Angler]

Just buy a DRRI, you know you want to.

[Rickenjangle]

Just buy a DRRI, you know you want to.

Darn you! Darn you all to heck!



Sure I'd like a Deluxe Reverb to keep at church - and one for home that could become a good friend to my AC15...

[Don]

Just buy a DRRI, you know you want to.

Better yet, an amp like my Princeton Reverb. Bias Tremolo!

No pedal will touch that!

I'm just too lazy to cary two amps and use my AB switch and extra cables.

Maybe I'll crack open the Voodoo Lab trem and see what's in there now.

[Rickenjangle]

Don, I forgot about the PR. That would be the perfect, perfect little amp to mic for church. I might have to keep my eyes open for a SFPR. I had an SFP that sounded good, but the 'verb version is so much better, it's almost a different amp.

It sounds so nice, it's almost sinful. Maybe I better not use it in church, after all...

[Offshore Angler]

What good is a church without sinners?

[Rickenjangle]

Well, that's true...otherwise why get up on Sunday morning?

[deepblue1963]

I use the BossRT20 Rotary pedal. I have the optional foot controller so I can change the sound on the fly.
Yes, its a Leslie simulator, but you some great trem affects.