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Tremolo Pedals

Mile End Effects Julep Stereo Tremolo/Phaser

Some pretty sweet effects pedals are coming out of Montreal these days (and also this very blog, for that matter!). The Mile End Effects JULEP is the latest creation of Justin Cober, the one-man-stompbox-maker whose pedals sell out within days of release - and yes, the same can be said…Click on the title for more

Mile End Effects Julep Stereo Tremolo/Phaser

New Pedal: MAS Effects Expanse Harmonic Tremolo + Reverb/Delay

The MAS Effects Expanse is the most ambitious release to date by this one-man builder based in Lockport, IL. It's a very tweakable, harmonic tremolo with an added ambient reverb/delay. This is a pedal that's not immediately intuitive but that will satisfy creative guitarists for its wide sonic palette. It's…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: MAS Effects Expanse Harmonic Tremolo + Reverb/Delay

Source Audio Ultrawave Multiband Distortion

After an initial limited batch sold directly through the manufacturer, The Source Audio Ultrawave is now widely available through all the shops that carry the Boston company's pedals. We also learned that there is a bass version of it. This is a multi-mode, multi-band distortion pedal presented as a "Stereo…Click on the title for more

Source Audio Ultrawave Multiband Distortion

Screwed Circuitz Irvine’s Fuzz

Hailing from Montreal, the Screwed Circuitz Irvine's Fuzz is an aggressive, creative and unusual fuzz with some peculiar features. Presented by the builder as a "lo-fi fuzz with a wide tone range and endless sustain," this pedal has some sonic affinities with the Big Muff, but the second footswitch (which…Click on the title for more

Screwed Circuitz Irvine’s Fuzz

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Recovery Phase/Tremolo

The Intensive Care Audio Recovery Phase is a new dual phaser/tremolo pedal by one of the coolest new British boutique pedal builder, weaned by what's one of the quirkiest and out of the box stompbox manufacturers to date, Rainger FX. Boasting a set of 8 different waveforms per channel, selectable…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Intensive Care Audio Recovery Phase/Tremolo

NativeAudio Rising Sun Optical Tremolo V2

The NativeAudio Rising Sun is an analog optical but digitally controlled optical tremolo with four waveforms and tap tempo voiced after vintage units. It has four subdivisions and ramping, which allows acceleration from the slow to the fast tempo. A central toggle switch lets the player choose between Tap mode,…Click on the title for more

NativeAudio Rising Sun Optical Tremolo V2

Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 Harmonic Tremolo

The Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 does what classic harmonic tremolos do, but adds an envelope tremolo option that is quite unheard of. When both toggles are set to Manual mode, the circuit splits your signal into high and low-frequency ranges and then applies an LFO to each that is…Click on the title for more

Earthquaker Devices Night Wire V2 Harmonic Tremolo

Universal Audio UAFX Astra Modulation Machine

The Universal Audio UAFX Astra Modulation Machine is part of the 3-pedal series launching the pro audio company into the stompbox-sphere. Renowned for pro audio peripherals but also for high-quality DSP-powered plugins emulating vintage studio gear, the American company used that experience to craft these dual-processor stompboxes that simulate classic…Click on the title for more

Universal Audio UAFX Astra Modulation Machine

Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser

The Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser (or how about TremveloPhaser?) was announced during NAMM's Believe in Music 2021 together with two other rather spacey looking mini pedals, but it was the only one lacking a video, which is now available. As you know, a pedal (or any other musical device)…Click on the title for more

Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser

Upcoming Pedal: Adventure Audio Occlusions Tremolo + Reverb Pedal

The tremolo/reverb pedals in most cases features a spring-style reverb, to simulate the effect produced by some tube amps of the '60s, but the Adventure Audio Occlusions takes a more ambient approach to this combo. The reverb here can get really long and caverous, while the tremolo features controls for…Click on the title for more

Upcoming Pedal: Adventure Audio Occlusions Tremolo + Reverb Pedal

Analogworm NOIR Optical Tremolo

Analogwarm FX is a pedal builder based in Russia recognizable by their stylish and rigorously black and white pedal cases. They have a handful of pedals in their roster (an overdrive, a fuzz, a tremolo and a chorus) but most of them are sold out, which is a good sign.…Click on the title for more

Analogworm NOIR Optical Tremolo

Catalinbread Topanga Burnside Spring Reverb + Tremolo

The original Topanga is considered by many guitarists as one of the most authentic-sounding digital recreations of the vintage spring reverb found in vintage Fender amps. The new Catalinbread Topanga Burnside adds to that circuit a tremolo knob. Unlike the amp units, the mix control allows for 0 to 100%…Click on the title for more

Catalinbread Topanga Burnside Spring Reverb + Tremolo