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Topic: Tremolo? |
Brett Hansen
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2022 5:47 pm |
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| I hear a tremolo effect on the recording of "half a mind" by Ernest Tubb with Buddy handling the steel early on. What other early classic recordings feature this effect on the steel parts? Does anybody still use this effect? |
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 3 Jun 2022 7:57 pm
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Sounds good, don't it?
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 2:53 am
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One that comes to mind immediately is "Someone Before Me", by the Wilburn Brothers. There's also some very subtle tremolo steel on "Crazy", by Patsy Cline, which was actually done by someone working the volume control on Walter Haynes' amp while he played!
My "go-to" amp doesn't have tremolo (sometimes mistakenly called "vibrato"). So when I need some tremolo, I do it with the volume pedal. Just takes practice.  |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 6:37 am
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I do tremolo with my bar. 
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Bill Duncan
From:
Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 8:06 am
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| I use my amp tremolo sometimes, sparingly. I have a vibrato pedal made by Barringer and I use it some. It is a surprisingly good pedal. |
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Andrew Frost
From:
Toronto, Ontario
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 8:16 am
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Interesting topic.
That nice Wilburn Bros tune mentioned above sounds like an amp setting to me.
https://youtu.be/HqFSAtkGse8
On the other hand, a recording like Nightlife has a ramping up & down in the tremolo so it was probably done with the vol pedal in real time, or perhaps in the control room during tracking ( which I can't picture ) or maybe during a bounce/ mix down stage.
https://youtu.be/ZjvV37t5UIU
This topic came up a couple years ago in regards to Paul Franklin's beautiful playing on this Vince Gill performance, and the take away was that in this case, in choice moments, it is volume pedal technique....
https://youtu.be/hpY5k0dH-hU |
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 8:34 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
I do tremolo with my bar.
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That's vibrato, not tremolo. Tremolo is pulsating volume. |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 9:00 am
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| Andrew Frost wrote: |
Nightlife has a ramping up & down in the tremolo so it was probably done with the vol pedal in real time, or perhaps in the control room during tracking ( which I can't picture ) or maybe during a bounce/ mix down stage.
https://youtu.be/ZjvV37t5UIU
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I thought that Jimmy Day did it while Buddy was playing. |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 9:18 am
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| Of course, I wasn't there. But it sounds like an electronic tremelo effect. I think it would be very hard indeed to get that uniform and smooth a periodic modulation at the faster speeds with a volume pedal. It's easy enough for someone else to change the speed at the amp. I use it a lot for guitar - blues, surf, and so on - and I've had someone change the speed while playing. |
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Brett Lanier
From:
Hermitage, TN
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Posted 4 Jun 2022 9:49 pm
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| Wow, the piano break on that Wilburn Bros song is soooo nice. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 5 Jun 2022 8:51 am
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I've been into tremolo lately. Great for adding a little presence to background pads along with other things.
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Michael Butler
From:
California, USA
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Posted 6 Jun 2022 9:41 am
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i use it quite often with my 66 deluxe reverb. also have the strymon flint that has reverb and tremolo that i use with a different amp. great pedal.
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