Does your amp have trem, but you use a tremolo pedal instead?

[Phil O'Keefe]

Strat87 mentioned in the tremolo thread that he has a Twin, but doesn't use its built-in tremolo, but uses a pedal instead.

 

I was wondering if that's fairly common, so I thought I'd make a poll. I'm not trying to steer general tremolo discussion away from the other thread, but I did want to find out if this is fairly common or not....

 

[Phil O'Keefe]

Looks like amps with tremolo are popular, and so are trem pedals.

[Strat87]

Looks like I'm the only weirdo so far that does that

[Phil O'Keefe]

I don't always use my amp tremolo either, although I do sometimes. What trem pedal are you using Strat87?

[Strat87]

TR-2. Set fairly subtly as well, sort of a Beatles "Sun King" thing.

[Phil O'Keefe]

I love that song dude... seriously.

[finboy]

It depends, the trem on my vibrochamp is wonky and I don't like my princeton reverb trem, so I will use diamond or a strymon flint, but my princeton brownface has an insane trem. If I get a blackface/silverface amp with an opto-trem, I would use that for standard trem sounds

[ninjaaron]

I have zero amps with trem, but I kind of want to use it. I do actually want one, but I'd sort of like it with tap-tempo and presets, and those cost more than I want to pay. Working on getting my TC Nova System into that roll, but it's slow-going. It's a great multi (with good analogue dirt to boot!), but, unlike pedals, it's basically the opposite of tweak and go. Very deep editing there. The trem isn't so bad; it's everything else. With great power comes great responsibility, I guess.

[HoobaStunk]

One of my amps has tremolo (Fender Twin silverface), but it is not stereo tremolo. That's where my *stereo* tremolo pedal comes in (E-H Pulsar).

[SmoggyTwinkles]

Yeah my amp has tremolo but there's a volume drop that takes me out of the mix or if there is no mix it sounds like someone threw a thick blanket over it anyway. sounds nice but i can only use it in recording when prepared for the volume loss.

 

Yup it's a deluxe reverb (late 70's)

 

thankfully I have pedal that can do tremolo pretty well, but its main use is a vibrato type thing which I use quite a bit. not a big trem user but it's there if I need it.

[mbengs1]

i find tremolo hard to use. i've yet to write a song that effectively employs the tremolo effect.