Recommend a tremolo pedal

[hotraman]

My guitars are a Tele ( of course) Gretsch Black Falcon, and Gibson ES 335.
Looking for a pedal that offers a wide variety of patterns.
What should I be looking at?
Thanks

 

[Alex M]

Something with a tap tempo. It can be disastrous otherwise.

 

[gmann]

I have an older Demeter Tremolo pedal. It's the thing if your lookin' for old school Fender Trem in a pedal. There are of course more versatile trems out there but I'm into the old Excello/Slim Harpo swamp blues type of trem and the Demeter does that perfectly. You might go to www.proguitarshop.com and click on Trem pedals, they have a lot of different ones and they have video demos of most of them. Some of them can get pretty radical.

 

[schenkadere]

Something with a tap tempo. It can be disastrous otherwise.

I have recently learned to agree with this statement.

 

[hotraman]

Looking at this....

Something with a tap tempo. It can be disastrous otherwise.

http://www.diamondpedals.com/products/tremolo.html

Anyone play one of these?
Easy to use when playing?

 

[Alex M]

Haven't played it, but it sure *looks* pretty!

 

[getbent]

listen to gmann.

 

[tazzboy]

Voodoo Lab Tremolo is good one.

 

[schenkadere]

This is a great value...very versatile. Seymour Duncan Shape Shifter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCH6xX_5zqU

If you're looking for a great pedal on a budget and don't care about tap tempo, the Dano Cool Cat Trem is very good.

 

[Verne Bunsen]

I love my Catalinbread Semaphore tremolo. It is tweakable in the extreme and quite versatile. It can do anything. It doesn't have tap tempo, but thats alright with me.

 

[SatelliteOrders]

I love my Cool Cat. It sounds like the vibrato circuit I hear when I plug into Fender amps at guitar stores. But you know, I'm loving the idea of a tap tempo on one. Curse you guys. I now have a longer wish list.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

+1 on the Seymour Duncan.


I've had and still have a number of vintage
amps w/ great and varied tremolo and the Shape Shifter can do them all and then some.

 

[Joeyring27]

Voodoo Lab Tremolo is good one.

+1

 

[Durango Twango]

+1 for the Semaphore. Nice small footprint too.

 

[zingy]

My top three:
Catalinbread Semaphore (tiny & tweakable)
Fulltone Supa-Trem (big knobs & switch-o-rama! )
T-Rex Tremster (affordable & warm)

 

[mistermullens]

I love Tremolo even though I don't use it all that much. Been too lazy to replace the battery lately. Anyway, I have a Boss TR-2 and I like it a lot. You can shape the wave form, which is nice, but its not easy to change the speed on the fly. Still love it though.

 

[sunkidd]

Voodoo Lab Tremolo is good one.

+1.... that's what I have been using for years...

 

[kp8]

Looking for a pedal that offers a wide variety of patterns.

Then most of the recs here don't fit you. The vast majority of the boxes mentioned don't really do much beyond basic throbbing with a couple of env shapes, wonderful though they may be for that.

For something that actually fits your requirements check out the Empress or the Cusak Tap-a-whirl (or go bonkers and get a goatkeeper)

For the last couple years i have had an Empress on my board. Great for basic trem stuff, but also great for the wack-a-do throb fest. The Cusak TAW has more patterns, but it doesn't have a rate knob (you can only tap it to set speed) which is a deal breaker for me. The Empress has both tap and a rate knob and also (as the TAW has i beleeb) a 2 speed with ramping.

Of course if all you want to do is get swampy than lots of other trems will do you.

YMMV.

-kp--

 

[Wardpike]

I have two that I can highly recommend:

1. Seymour Duncan's Shape Shifter
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/stompboxes/sfx07_shape_shi/
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2. Line-6 MM4, which when used with the expression pedal can have the tempo varied across the spectrum and is truly amazing sounding in stereo!! PLUS it's an amazing chorus, flanger, phaser, etc etc....
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https://www.globalfulfillment.net/gfsnet/line6/10Expand.aspx?ProductCode=99 EX1

 

[Jimmy Dean]

I love my Voodoo Labs Tremolo, it's the only modulation pedal on my board.