What the Fooz?

A new one from the SD camp- it's a fuzz/ trem/ synth pedal. For those of us who love the beeps & tweets in our playing, it's something to look forward to. As for me, I'm not even a fuzz fan. 😁 OK here's some persuasion:

Give away (5) DONE

Time for another give away, another one sponsored by Davis GMC- the Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo. Just keep in mind that this item is brand new in box, for your winning pleasure 👍. Same ritual- just send me a blank e-mail with the title: Trembling trem!

• Remember, DO NOT disclose any personal details in the mail for security reasons
• Wait for my reply e-mail declaring you the winner
• Winner will self-collect the item, details of meeting to be declared in the e-mail as well
• No deadline, do try your luck

Belated congrats to John Salarda, the winner for Give Away (4). Have a good week ahead, everyone 😁

Stereo trem

If you are into the Seymour Duncan pedal effects range, you'd know that a tremolo pedal is already in the catalogue but with this latest addition, the Shape Shifter, we get a smaller, more pedal board-friendly footprint. It also has a stereo capacity. On that note, it'd be great if SD revises the dimensions of all its pedals for us pedal board geeks :-)

Em... vibrato or tremolo?

We often hear people referring to the Floyd-type bridge as a 'tremolo' unit which is incorrect. The floating nature of this bridge type allows notes to be raised & lowered, creating that warbling effect. The raising & lowering of notes (in succession), in music, is known as a vibrato- tremolo is the raising & lowering of volume...




The person responsible for this confusion is Leo Fender, who labelled his new Stratocaster guitar, equipped with a new bridge (new in 1954, of course- that infamous headstock label: WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO). Ironically, his Vibrolux amp (in 1956) with a built-in tremolo was labeled as a vibrato effect.

So now you know...