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Permalink What Trem Goes Best With Surfy Bear Compact Reverb For That Classic Surf Sound?

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I'm a newbie. Among the tremolos I've looked at are: Walrus Audio Monument V2, BOSS TR-2, Harmonious Monk mk.2, TC Electronic Pipeline, and Surfy Industries SurfyTrem. Space on my pedal board is limited, so the SurfyTrem Deluxe is out. Any advice would be appreciated. TIA

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You may be surprised, but SurfyTrem!)))
Surely you may find some others to your taste, there are so many great tremolo units, I had tens of them, but SurfyTrem is really what I was searching for.

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Last edited: Feb 02, 2024 16:40:34

Tqi wrote:

Samurai wrote:

You may be surprised, but Surftrem!)))
Surely you may find some other to your taste, there are so many great tremolo units, I had tens of them but Surftrem is really what I was searching for.

The Carl Martin SurfTrem? ;)

Sorry, corrected) However Carl Martin is not bad, I had it for some time.

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Samurai wrote:

You may be surprised, but SurfyTrem!)))
Surely you may find some others to your taste, there are so many great tremolo units, I had tens of them, but SurfyTrem is really what I was searching for.

Thanks for the input. I've been leaning toward the Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo V2 based on the YouTube videos I've listened to. Now I'll have to search for SurfyTrem videos as well and compare.

+1 on the Surfy Trem.

Bob

surfy trem!

Thanks for the replies. Looks like it's unanimous.

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Last edited: Feb 02, 2024 09:25:39

Tqi wrote:

Buena_Fonz wrote:

Thanks for the replies. Looks like it's unanimous.

Don't get me wrong, I really love my Mooer Trelicopter, but I've only tried a few tremolo pedals and I'm no expert!

No problem. I posted a similar question on another forum and got half a dozen replies, and no two people agreed.

I don't have a Surfy Trem, or tried one.
But I do own the Surfy Compact.

I have used many other Trems, the Pipeline is good.
But my new favorite Tremelo was not in your list, the Source Audio Vertigo.

Can somebody tell me again what is the "classic surf sound"? Is it Dick Dale, the Bel Airs, The Challengers, the Astronauts, Fender Four, Chantays?

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Last edited: Feb 02, 2024 09:25:30

The New Dimensions are the classic surf sound.

And the classic surf sound doesn't really have any tremolo effects (and when it does, it's usually very subtle).

T H E ✠ S U R F I T E S

Tqi wrote:

Stormtiger wrote:

Can somebody tell me again what is the "classic surf sound"? Is it Dick Dale, the Bel Airs, The Challengers, the Astronauts, Fender Four, Chantays?

"Toxic" by Britney Spears.<

Oh hell ya!

https://youtu.be/ZAyeVjnJg9E?si=wlXB8iGEWuTB0IKS

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Buena_Fonz wrote:

Samurai wrote:

You may be surprised, but SurfyTrem!)))
Surely you may find some others to your taste, there are so many great tremolo units, I had tens of them, but SurfyTrem is really what I was searching for.

Thanks for the input. I've been leaning toward the Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo V2 based on the YouTube videos I've listened to. Now I'll have to search for SurfyTrem videos as well and compare.

Harmonic tremolo is nice but may be pretty tricky in musical context. Surfytrem has both harmonic and bias tremolo and I find the last one surely more usefull.

Waikiki Makaki surf-rock band from Ukraine

https://linktr.ee/waikikimakaki

Lost Diver

https://lostdiver.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/vitaly-yakushin

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Last edited: Feb 02, 2024 09:24:32

Any trem pedal will do the job really. This is the kind of FX I use without worrying about its manufacturer.

I tried a bunch. Wasted a lot of cash. Surfytrem got me the right sort of envelope shape for the trem that I was looking for in surf.

Honorable mention goes out to the Supro 1310 tremolo which also sounds absolutely fantastic, but there’s a touch of overdrive built into the sound that you can’t bypass and I didn’t like having to have that bit of crunch.

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For anyone finding this thread and wondering about the Surfy Trem and why it finds so much favor, it's because it recreates two of the tremolos Fender used in their amps and is therefore very authentic to the era.

The brownface setting is the hamonic version from the professional amps rather than the bias vary version from the smaller student amps (which is also a great sounding tremolo.) Here are a couple examples of it in use:

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