Tremolo with ducking

victorludorum

I'm pretty sure that nothing exists, but has anyone ever seen a Tremolo pedal or rack unit that has a ducking feature, so that it plays like the bias trem on the old tweed tremoluxes?

cLepto-bass

I am not familiar with the Tremoluxe but by ducking do you mean reacting to picking/attack dynamics? 

victorludorum

Yes, pretty much. The Clapton Twinolux does the same thing, whereby if you play some notes the tremolo disappears, but then immediately comes back in when you stop.

cLepto-bass

Sounds similar to the envelop depth/rate feature on the EHX Supler Pulsar to me. As it happens I have one of those to sell if you are interest.

Gadget

TC 2290

stickyfiddle

Iirc the various line 6 products do it - M series and various iterations of Helix. Might be overkill but potentially useful if you’d use multiple other fx

ICBM

cLepto-bass said:

I am not familiar with the Tremoluxe but by ducking do you mean reacting to picking/attack dynamics? 

With a bias trem, when the amp is overdriven the tremolo disappears, then fades in as the note decays back to clean.

You get something of the same effect if you put a tremolo pedal before an overdrive pedal or an overdriven amp, although not quite because you still hear the gain being affected even if the output level isn't.

victorludorum

Both the TC2290 and the Line 6 multi effects would be overkill to be honest.

paganskins

As @cLepto-bass mentioned the ehx super pulsar would be the obvious choice, also have a look at the pigtonix tremvelope

victorludorum

I'm looking at the Super Pulsar now. It looks very nifty indeed...

oktorockto

Eventide Eclipse could do that.

peaches

Spaceman Voyager is a gorgeous trem that does just this! 

cLepto-bass

victorludorum said:

I'm looking at the Super Pulsar now. It looks very nifty indeed...

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