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Tremelo is raising and lowering the volume.
Vibrato is raising and lowering the pitch.
When fender says vibrato on an amp they more often than not mean
Tremelo.
And a tremelo arm would actually be a vibrato arm because it raises
and lowers the pitch. Some people. It is kind of like how they kept
Hubble's galaxy classifications even though they were wrong.
--- In , Richard <errant_jedi@y...>
wrote:
>
> I remember there being a thread about this a while
> back but I didn't have time to read any of it. Isn't
> vibrato the "bending" effect and Tremelo an actual
> rising/dropping of volume? Hence, what we commonly
> call the tremelo bar on our guitars isn't actually a
> tremelo, but a vibrato? And the vibrato effect on
> Fender amps is an actual vibrato "bending" effect, not
> a tremelo effect, right? I'm asking because I'm
> thinking of getting a pedal to play with and I want to
> be sure of what I'm getting.
>
> Richard
>
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