NPD, tremolo

Hi folks.
This is a follow up tread.
I’m following up on this thread about which tremolo pedal do you like.

After much procrastinating. I made my move.
I got the supro tremolo.

It’s duel mode.
Amplitude tremolo which is normal vol. up/down tremolo. And harmonic tremolo which is running the bass from low to high, and tremble from high to low, in opposite direction to produce a spacey sounding harmonic tremolo effect.

It has a silent switch. No click on, click off. Which I like a lot.

It has a gain control on it along with normal depth and speed.
Speed can be so low that it’s pretty much on then slowly to off, then back up to on. Back and forth. Or so fast a speed it’s pretty much a studder.
Depth can be from barely there, to deep and a throbbing pulse.
Then there’s the gain knob. Oh my! The gain can not be turned all the way off. There’s always a little bit there. I’ve found that if ya really gotta have clean, picking dynamics works well to get clean, or also along with rolling the vol. control down on the guitar can get you to clean also.

There is also a slight boost (in volume) when the pedal is engaged.

Man, this pedal is the secret sauce ā€˜I’ was looking for.
With the pedal on, all controls on the pedal to zero. It really adds ā€˜secret sauce’ to any of the three amps I’ve got. It makes the amp sound just that much sweeter than it already is. I can’t describe in words what sweeter means, but it is good.
The tremolo itself, is near perfect. I compare this to the '65 fender princeton reverb reissue onboard tremolo (bias wiggle tremolo). Which is the sweetest sounding tremolo I’ve heard. The supro pedal is on that par.

Back to the gain control. This gain control introduces enough gain to compensate for not having a boost or a overdrive, or a distortion pedal. Ya don’t need one when ya got this pedal. It can get to Beatles Revolution intro type distortion/gain, with a tremolo pedal.

As ya can see, I ain’t got a lot of pedals. Them are the two I use. I got more but they’re all in a drawer as I’ve no need for them to get the tones I’m after. In the drawer are, joyo tremolo, compressor, phaser, vintage overdrive pedals. For the music I play, they are not needed when I got the supro tremolo pedal.

I’ve had this pedal now for maybe 3-4 weeks. I can’t get enough of it. It’s near always on albeit it may have all controls to zero for just the sweetener of the tones produced.

imho, I made the correct choice.

fwiw. And lastly.
What convinced me to make the move in getting this pedal. As I’d procrastinated for a easy year about what I wanted to do about getting tremolo effect for my amps that don’t have onboard. Was that sweetwater had a sale on them. They are always $214 (kinda expensive imho). Everywhere. It must be msrp. Sweetwater had them for $169 + sales tax.
So I got my pedal in the mail. And it was broken. One of the knobs just slid off easy. I contacted sweetwater about this. They said they’d send me another new pedal. Next day I had that replacement pedal along w/ a prepaid shipping label back to sweetwater. The new pedal was fine.
I thought this worth mentioning as imho sweetwater went out of their way to get me satisfied. Which I am. This was my first purchase from sweetwater. As of now. I will purchase more from them. To bad for them, I don’t purchase much gear. But if I do. Sweetwater will be in the running as a place to buy if I can’t get local.

If ya want a great tremolo pedal. This supro (duel mode) tremolo is a very good one to consider.

I’m also considering removing the delay pedal from my board. It also gets little use.
It turns out for me. My simple tube or solid state amps, w/o effects other than reverb (or tremolo/reverb on the prri), along with my new supro tremolo pedal reveal the tones I’m looking for from my electric guitar.

imho, get one of these pedals, it’ll make your ears HappyCat. :wink:

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Don’t worry they will start calling you on the phone often to make sure that if you are ready to buy, you buy from them. :grin:

Nice pedal, glad you are digging it. Taking lots of time with each new pedal is key in finding that ā€œsauceā€.

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I’m happy for you, Jim. I use the tremolo effect quite often, even though it’s a humble multi-effect built-in unit, probably a far cry quality- and functionality-wise from what you got.
Anyway - have fun with your new pedal.

Happy NPD! Enjoy the pedal and thanks for the detailed write up!

Yep, as soon as I ordered my tremolo, they were on to me. Mostly via emails suggesting anything and everything that I may need to buy.
Well, in one of them emails was a survey of how they did with my online order. I gave them all 10’s, the best score (I never give anybody all 10’s, but they did that good I thought). It also had a comment section in that survey. In my comment I noted how well they’d done for me. I also noted that I had no appreciation for their hard sell to me. And that the hard sell wasn’t likely to work with me. And that I didn’t appreciate them filling up my inbox in my email. I just don’t work that way. I’d guess within 15 min. I did have a phone call from them. They were most pleasant. They also removed me from the solicitation emails list. It’s been a good month + now and I’ve not received one email or phone call since that last conversation. I suppose I’m not off the hook yet, but imho, it’s been a good start. They seem to have listened to me. This is why they are still someplace I may purchase future gear from them. They listened to me.

Thanks, that I am!

I will have lots of time. I have no aspiration for any new anything at this point.
I got the '65 prri just shy of 3 years ago. It was my last purchase before getting the new tremolo pedal. I suppose I’m the odd man out. I’m pretty satisfied with the gear I got. I think I can make music with it… :wink:

Thanks Tomasz. imho, tremolo is a under used, under discussed effect. I find that odd too as tremolo was imho likely one of the original electric guitar effects that was available on early production amps. Pedals weren’t even invented yet.
Great that you’re hip to using this effect too. I thought I was the lonely man out. Not much discussion about tremolo here on this forum.

imho, that will be better than no tremolo. I have no experience with multi effect tremolo so I can’t comment on it. But I did replace my joyo tremolo pedal with this new one. The Supro tremolo blows the joyo one away. The joyo tremolo is one of my pedals that’s in the drawer now. fwiw, the joyo pedal was a good go between. From no tremolo on some of my amps to having the effect via the joyo pedal. It served it’s purpose for me. It confirmed that I liked tremolo well enough that I pursued something that I may like even better.

Thanks, fun ā€˜is’ what I’m having with it. I really do got HappyCat ears now! It’s that good!

Thanks Ashu. I am really diggin it. Thanks for the comment of the write up. I did try to give my impressions on it. As ya can see, I’m not much of a pedal guy. But this one. This one really works for me. It mostly don’t alter my tones and it does what tremolo is supposed to do I think. It gives my music some extra movement. Which is the best explanation I can give for what tremolo does for me. I hope my words can inspire someone else to get hip to this effect.

One last comment on the pedal.
As I stated, I got a fender princeton reverb reissue. I love this amp. But one thing I can’t do is get into overdrive. It’s gotta be loud for the tubes to start doing there thing. Well, with this new pedal, I can introduce a mild gain to my tones at reasonable volume levels. This is a real win for me as I, like many others, dig EOB. This pedal gets me there. It really did kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. I got my tremolo on my amps that don’t have tremolo as a built in effect and gives me the breakup on the prri that I can’t get because I can’t turn it up loud enough to get there. A win, win for me.
Part of what kept me from getting this pedal for so long was that I couldn’t turn off the gain. After getting the pedal, it was pretty easy to find the work around to that. Lower guitar volume and/or playing dynamics.

Thanks for the comments folks.

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Thanks Jim for the detailed description of this pedal. It was an interesting read. Enjoy getting all those different sounds !!!

Ian

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Thanks Ian. This pedal does go to extremes on all three counts. Speed, depth and gain. However, I’ve can’t think of any use for the extremes mostly. So far I’ve been using it mostly as a modestly introduce amplitude tremolo. Which is where I mostly have my tremolo effect set at. I’ve kept the gain mostly dialed all the way down to as low as it can go as most songs I play aren’t heavy on distortion. It’s nice to have the capability, but generally I’ve discovered that my best tones come from modest introduction to any effect that I use. I think that’s why I don’t have so many pedals. I want to hear my guitar and amp, not effects. Granted, I’m more inclined to use effects that are (what I think are) normal effects that are usually on the amp, not in pedals. Tremolo and reverb qualify as these effects. If I want gain or distortion I also mostly try to get that from my amp too. Excluding the issue on the prri where distortion only is available with too loud. I just can’t get there. Guess I’m too old for real loud any more. fwiw, I never thought I’d say that last sentence. I used to like loud.

Oh my.
Thanks Mark.
Should I go change it now?

I thought that typed word looked wrong when I typed it. Spell check didn’t alert me, I suppose since it’s a word.
But man, that’s a pretty glaring spelling error (now that ya point it out to me). Geeze, all I had to do was look at the pedal too. It’s written write (right) on it… :wink:
I try to watch out for them duel… I mean dual meaning words so I get the right spelling for what I’m meaning. I obviously failed pretty big on that one. Specially since it’s the first words I wrote.
Oh well, I’m of the opinion that, if yer not making mistakes, your not doing anything. So I’ll take note of my error and move forward… :slight_smile:
Thanks for the heads up.

I guess I’ll leave my error as is. Bums me out that I didn’t catch it, but if I change it now, your heads up alert will have no meaning.

I’ll lastly say, if that’s the worst thing I do, I’m probably doing ok… :wink:

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