Anyone use a Dunlop Rotovibe??

I've been looking at getting one of these pedals for a while but never actually seen one in the flesh in any of the stores here so I'll probably have to get it over the internet.

I know there may be other 'better' vibe pedals out there but I like the idea of this one having the treadle to be able to manipulate the speed of the effect and the large knob on the side to allow changing the intensity on the fly whereas all other pedals seem to have smaller knobs that require more precise setting and not so easy to adjust with your foot.

The only negative thing I can see about this pedal is that it's quite large so it wouldn't sit on my pedal board and apparently it's quite heavy - but that's not necessarily a bad thing as it won't slide about on a stage.

Anyone got one and, if so, any comments on it??

FWIW a company named Tone In Progress makes a product called the Third hand that attaches to the knob on any pedal and connects to an expression pedal that you can use to control that parameter. This way you could get a pedal you actually like and set the 3rd Hand up to control the speed. Cool huh?!?

I had one. Nice pedal, I like both settings. I do not know, what else to say, it's already classic pedal. However, it has it's own tone, which different, from other vibes.

I had a Rotovibe for a while and liked it, but: I used the vibrato more than the chorus. The novelty of changing the speed of the modulation with the pedal gets old pretty quick if you use it that much. With the depth rolled back and subtle it might be more tasteful, IMO. I also ended up wanting a slower rate that the pedal could offer, maybe a mod could fix this but that is the main reason I let go of it.

I wasn't visualising noodling around with the speed all that much but it would be nice to not have to constantly bend down to adjust the settings and be able to emulate the ramping up and down of the speed of a rotary speaker in some songs.

I tend to be a 'set it and forget it' type of guy when it comes to pedals - find a setting that works for as many songs as possible and don't constantly chop and change settings from song to song. That's just me.......... and having a sore back this week has made me realise the benefits of not having to bend down too often!!!

I have one. It's a great pedal. The tone gets changed slightly (a bit trebley) when it's on, so I put a boss ge-7 equalizer after it to bring the tone back.

I got my new Rotovibe in the mail from Proguitarshop yesterday.

Love the tones I can get from this thing. Working on the basis that most modulation pedals tend to go through batteries quite quickly I tried to plug the pedal into one of the adaptors on my pedalboard to run it off an AC source but using my Boss adaptor or the one I got with my Akai Headrush looper pedal, the Rotovibe doesn't work. So presumably it needs the specific Dunlop adaptor.

But, a question for anyone who has this pedal - does it go through batteries quickly or not? I played through it for about an hour last night and it didn't seem to run the battery down significantly but I'll check it with my tester later today.

Is it worth getting the Dunlop adaptor so that I don't have to constantly worry about the battery dying halfway through a gig or will it run for days on a single battery?

I've had one for a long time and I love it. No, it's not a Univibe or a Leslie sim. It's a chewy phaser as a friend of mine described it. Add in the decent vibrato and I got no complaints. Take the bottom off and there are mini-pots to adjust the range and such. I usually put it as the very last pedal in my chain, preferring my delays vibed rather than my vibes delayed so to speak. Cool pedal. Oh yeah, battery life is fairly reasonable for what it is. You can pretty much count on a fresh battery lasting a whole gig and a bunch extra. Just remember that every second that cable is plugged in, it's draining the battery.
-Mr. Natural

I guess I'm going against the grain here when I say I'm not a fan. I had one on my pedalboard for a few years but it never worked for me, even though I love rotary sounds. A singer-songwriter I worked with even nixed it for one song, telling me, "It sounds like a cartoon version of a Leslie, not the real thing."

I have the Boss RT-20 now and it sounds so much more authentic, IMO.

I guess I'm going against the grain here when I say I'm not a fan. I had one on my pedalboard for a few years but it never worked for me, even though I love rotary sounds. A singer-songwriter I worked with even nixed it for one song, telling me, "It sounds like a cartoon version of a Leslie, not the real thing."

I have the Boss RT-20 now and it sounds so much more authentic, IMO.

And this helps me with my question about battery life how??

I said in my original post that there may well be other pedals out there that people consider to be better than the Rotovibe - I accept that point but don't want a discussion on the merits or otherwise of this pedal.

As someone once said, if you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all...........

And this helps me with my question about battery life how??

I ran it with no problems through a 1-spot. IIRC, the jack was crap on mine too so I used the 9-volt cap-to-AC adaptor cable that comes with the 1-spot.

I said in my original post that there may well be other pedals out there that people consider to be better than the Rotovibe - I accept that point but don't want a discussion on the merits or otherwise of this pedal.

As someone once said, if you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all...........

I was being nice. I omitted the swear-words.

However, if you didn't want a "discussion on the merits or otherwise of this pedal," you shouldn't have put this in your original post:

Anyone got one and, if so, any comments on it??

Just sayin'.

Well it's all about context and timing really isn't it? I put my original post up here almost a month ago and you didn't chime in with any comments one way or the other until 6 hours after I tell everyone here that I got the pedal. Your comments might have served a purpose 2 or 3 weeks ago and maybe made me think some more about whether to get it or not, but not now I've got the pedal.

And the question I asked today about battery life wasn't commented upon in your original post today either.

So, all I'm saying is that, by all means post your comments about whatever it might be - whether to me or anyone else on whatever subject - but make them in context to the full thread and have regard to any timing that clearly jumps out of having read the whole thread.

Personally, I always try not to rain on anyone's parade when posting comments on here - at the end of the day it's still the most civilised of guitar related forums on the net and I think that's primarily because people here tend to be a bit less dismissive of other's opinions than they are elsewhere.

Just saying........

Well it's all about context and timing really isn't it? I put my original post up here almost a month ago and you didn't chime in with any comments one way or the other until 6 hours after I tell everyone here that I got the pedal. Your comments might have served a purpose 2 or 3 weeks ago and maybe made me think some more about whether to get it or not, but not now I've got the pedal.

And the question I asked today about battery life wasn't commented upon in your original post today either.

So, all I'm saying is that, by all means post your comments about whatever it might be - whether to me or anyone else on whatever subject - but make them in context to the full thread and have regard to any timing that clearly jumps out of having read the whole thread.

Personally, I always try not to rain on anyone's parade when posting comments on here - at the end of the day it's still the most civilised of guitar related forums on the net and I think that's primarily because people here tend to be a bit less dismissive of other's opinions than they are elsewhere.

Just saying........

Okay . . .

<quietly steps away from the crazy>