Hard chopping tremolo

[qersty]

I have gotten some serious chop from my nobles tremolo. You gotta crank the internal bias control for it though.

 

[Mosfed]

Little more than you are looking to spend but no other tremolo comes close. The fade feature is pretty amazing.

 

[Crowd crusher]

You guys are all awesome. Thank you so much for all the suggestions. Looks like I've got quite a few trems to research and demo. Keep em coming. I love this stuff

 

[Blaargh]

The Moog MF102 Ring Modulator is pretty incredible. I love mine, but it's a bit too big for my board so it doesn't get enough use. I don't know if the Mini version is any good though.

 

[Mosfed]

The Moog MF102 Ring Modulator is pretty incredible. I love mine, but it's a bit too big for my board so it doesn't get enough use. I don't know if the Mini version is any good though.

It's great but it doesn't have the tremolo function/side. It's just ring modulation

Edit: I am talking about the MF-ring, not the 102

 

[Crowd crusher]

@Mosfed i Definitely love spaceman stuff. A little out of my price range. I consider all their pedals pieces of art and would love to get my hands on some. @Blaargh And the Moog is amazing too. I've researched the 102 quite a bit. It's high on my list also. Thanks

 

[Crowd crusher]

I know the 102 is a ring mod. But the lfo enables some cool sounds

 

[Mosfed]

@Mosfed i Definitely love spaceman stuff. A little out of my price range. I consider all their pedals pieces of art and would love to get my hands on some. @Blaargh And the Moog is amazing too. I've researched the 102 quite a bit. It's high on my list also. Thanks

I know it's expensive but it will be the last tremolo you buy. The envelope function is really quite amazing and so unique in analog tremolos.

 

[Mosfed]

I know the 102 is a ring mod. But the lfo enables some cool sounds

I was talking about the mini - the MF-ring. The 102 has two sides - one modulation side and then the ring mod. It's capable of many more sounds than the MF-ring that is only a ring mod.

 

[Alien8]

The full size Moogerfooger MF-102 is a great trem, and could do any sound with CV gear influencing it as well. The price seems high for just a tremolo, but it's not just that at all. It is a great compliment to bass for a number of reasons.

The drive is great, if you split your signal and run both into it (audio in and carrier in) you get octave up... The ring mod sounds are very organic sounding - bell and gong sounds are rich and powerful. With a filter you can get the talking bass effect, has an LFO out for other gear, or to patch to its other controls...

What I like more about the Malekko is shaping the wave shape. It's controls really make a difference - being able to have a sharp log shape up and a rounded down really thumps.

Trem seems like such a simple thing, but having the wave shape contour is really a unique thing that while seems subtle is quite drastic in the sounds. The EHX does some of this, and with lots of CV gear you can get there with the Moog.

The Malekko however can be triggered by your playing as well, so you can get rhythm patterns just by playing

 

[Crowd crusher]

@Mosfed ....I thought the 102 was choppy. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Mosfed]

@Mosfed ....I thought the 102 was choppy. Thanks for the clarification.

It is choppy - super choppy.

Sorry - let me try to clarify

Moog makes 2 ring mods. The MF-102 and the MF-ring minifooger.

The 102 has two sides - LFO and Ring Mod. The LFO side can do amazing tremolo. One of the coolest and best on the business. I finally bought a 102 recently.

The MF-ring just has the ring mod side. It doesn't have the capability to do tremolo.

Above - someone suggested the 102 and then asked about the minifooger and whether it could do tremolo. It can't.

 

[Mrmatt1972]

Basic Audio Throbby is awesome for chop.

Throbby Demo

 

[Crowd crusher]

Throbby sounds awesome...I'm digging the mf-102 though. The ability to change waveforms. And all the expression capabilities really make it stand out to me.

 

[Mr. voodoobass]

Ehx super pulsar
Ehx ring thing
Moog mf trem

Those are my favorites, and the simple moog is the one I use the most.
All can use expr pedal, ring thing can do pitch shifting and ring modulation.
Super pulsar is just a beast that covers all kinds of tremolo and has tap tempo.

 

[jw23mind]

Wanted that Gigfx chopper because of pedal depth control, but was too big for my board. Looked into the Hummingbird, but decided against because I have the strong impression it is not square but rather sawtooth/ramp waveshape. Feel lucky that I came across the Catalinbread Semaphore Tap Tremolo: It has a full-chop square wave along with many others with depth down to zero signal, expression pedal option for depth control (or tempo as well), tap subdivide into triplets and other intervals, tap-tempo circuit and led is always on, so can set tempo before enabling with the bypass switch, can be run at 18V for extra headroom. I don't understand why they don't make this one anymore!! Short of a similar tremolo built into a mini wah enclosure (like a mini gigfx), I don't think you could get a better one (assuming you don't care about presets, MIDI and such, like in the Empress). Since I don't have room for an expression pedal, I'm thinking of trying to rig the control of the Semaphore depth control using a control pot on my bass as a rheostat using a trs cable to connect to a fixed resistor fed by ref voltage to form a divider.

 

[gregmon79]

Hummingbird was great. But I moved on to the Seymour Duncan Shapeshifter (older huge ver) and I havent looked back. That is mainly why I sue trem, to get that hard chop, helicopter type machine gun sound. And the SS can do that and so much more. They updated it since to a smaller enclosure and a more updated feature set. Worth a look.

 

[Crowd crusher]

@jw23mind that catalibred sounds killer. I'll have to check it out later..

@gregmon79 ...Always great to hear your input on pedals. I know we like similar stuff from reading through your fuzz club thread,and others. I always look to see what Greg is up to lol. Thanks guys...A few more to check out

 

[gregmon79]

@jw23mind that catalibred sounds killer. I'll have to check it out later..

@gregmon79 ...Always great to hear your input on pedals. I know we like similar stuff from reading through your fuzz club thread,and others. I always look to see what Greg is up to lol. Thanks guys...A few more to check out

Always great to share my limited exp. Its the least I can do from all I’ve learned from here.

And there are probably better trems out there. But overall, for the price (I bought mine used for like $75 and the tap tempo switch was already modded for soft touch relay), features and usability and versatility, the Shape Shifter is the best I’ve tried. The only thing that kills it is it’s size. But the revamped reissue takes care of that. However the price I think is a lot more. Hence why I don’t have one! ($229 new) Yet I want to get one one day.


And not a biggie, but @bassmusic17 is one who started the Fuzz Addicts. Want to give credit where credits due. I just contribute and give numbers out.

 

[crapusername]

The Marshall vibratrem can do choppy.
The ehx super pulsar
Mooer trelicopter