Best mid price tremolo pedal?

DannyP

Nobels TR-X is versatile but easy to dial.

Cookiemonster

I have a mooer trelicopter clone by Donner. Great pedal. Cheap as well. If interested let me know

Teyeplayer

KKJale said:

For a basic pedal without many knobs that specialises in a bias-type tremolo, the best thing would be a used Monster Effects Swamp-Thang... but they tend to go for £90 and well over, even with chippy paint.

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or if you are any good with a soldering iron, Jeds peds does a clone kit for about £35. I’ve had one on my board for the last couple of years and it does that bias trem sound perfectly.

steven70

Another one for EHX stereo pulsar, not an expert on tremolo but always sounds good to my ears and you can get a pretty vide variety of sounds with just a few knob twiddles - easy to adjust between songs etc

ragingben

I liked the EHX Stereo Pulsar but found the range of the speed knob too broad - the useable range for me was between 8-10 o'clock, everything else was either really fast or really slow. This makes dialing the speed really fiddly as a tiny move makes quite a difference. If EHX added a range toggle switch to go between the normal range and a reduced range with more control it would be an awesome trem.  In the end I sold it and put the money towards a Zvex Sonar, it's a very cool but fiddly trem. With trem the price seems to jump from budget to expensive very quickly. 

Yamaha77

EBS is the best I've come across. Boss TR2 and Mooer Trelicopter are ok and Demeter is good too.

mfin

If you can get one used, a Diamond Tremelo is seriously good. It was my 4th and final tremelo, love it.

joetele

Is £200 mid price? Probably not but the Caroline Parabola is lovely. 

kjdowd

Supro supro supro supro supro 


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builttospill

builttospill said:

Boss TR-2

stump up extra for a Boss PN-2 stick it on the square wave with depth and rate at full pelt it’ll rip your head off.

BigRedOne

Fulltone Supa Trem has been a standard for a long time - used prices are usually reasonable

guitartango

You may want to look at a Line6 M5 pedal, drives are shit but Trem and delays are pretty good 

https://youtu.be/FJ0eAmB9I4I?t=221

Haych

I've used a Carl Martin Surf Trem for years and it's always sounded great and is no nonsense (two knobs) and they're cheap to boot.

The Source Audio True Spring Reverb interests me, though, and that has a nice tremolo built in.  Kinda pricey though so I won't be buying anytime soon.

AntonHunter

I recently upgraded the the Subdecay Vagabond, and I love it. The envelope drift knob is great too, so there's some more interesting sounds you can get from it while still doing the traditional stuff really well. £159 from Joe's Pedals, so it's probably only "mid-price" if you spend a similar amount of time dreaming about Chase Bliss pedals as I do...

markslade07

Boo Instruments Trem. Pretty simple, sounds great, looks great, what more could you want. Oh...and I'm selling one

Greatape

fendermadlewis said:

Thanks guys! Some VERY helpful sugggestions that i wouldn't have thought of! 

 I don't buy into the strymon thing im afraid. They sound really good but I just think there's a bit of 'make a pretty box, mark the price up' with them, which guitarist seem to love! I had an El Capistan for a while and tbh the Belle Epoch i A/B'd it with actually sounded more like a tape echo. As far as the flint goes, the trems sound nice but the reverb isn't exactly like springs no matter what they say. Nothing ive played yet beats physical springs vibrating!

The best trem I've heard so far is off my Vibroverb. I found out that it's Bias tremolo and if you look in the back you can actually see the power tubes flickering back and forward in tandom. Almost as beautiful as the northern lights. Lol.

Im just looking for something pedal board friendly, as i like to adjust the pots between songs etc..

Not to be too tangential, but that, sir, is what I call a rig. 

merlin

I have a Diamond trem that I'm not using. It is very, very good indeed. 

jdgm

I don't think you can buy a trem pedal which will be better than your Fender amp trems.

And almost any trem pedal you choose will sound good through those amps.

I have a Marshall Vibratrem which sounds great through my Fender or Vox amps.

Moe_Zambeek

merlin said:

I have a Diamond trem that I'm not using. It is very, very good indeed. 

@merlin if the OP isn’t interested I might be...

merlin

Moe_Zambeek said:

merlin said:

I have a Diamond trem that I'm not using. It is very, very good indeed. 

@merlin if the OP isn’t interested I might be...

@fendermadlewis are you interested? Moe Zambeek might want it.....