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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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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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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.
what jacob said.
there's plenty of volume modulating pedals (tremolo) on the market. I
have a george dennis which i can recommend if it's 'playing' your
after, since it has some nice features: swell-pedal adjustable depth
(i still want to try to mod it to adjustable speed, btw, should be a
matter of rewiring and possibly changing two pots), and it has stereo
output, which gives truely awesome chorusing. and it's dead cheap.
as for pitch modulation, i think marshall has a pedal that does that.
i tried it but i found the all too regular pitch modulating sound too
mechanical.
you could get a digitech whammy pedal (the one rage against the
machine used for that squeecking sound).. i think i has controllable
sweep range, so if you could set it at say a tone or half a tone
instead of double octave, you'd have foot-controlable whammy-bar.
just some thoughts
