About Tremolo Pedals

A tremolo pedal is volume on a pulse: amp-style throb, harmonic shimmer, a surf chop that makes a clean chord feel like a spring tank. Slow, it is a heartbeat under a verse. Fast, it is almost rotary. Some boxes pair tremolo with reverb so the pulse and the room live together. Some are a whole modulation machine with tremolo as one program. This page is that pulse, from a dedicated Diamond to the Flint that never leaves a lot of boards.

If you want swirl instead of throb, see phaser pedals. For chorus and vibrato, wander chorus pedals.

How to Choose

• Tremolo plus reverb: amp-style pair in one box, the sound of a Fender tank and a photocell. The Strymon Flint V2.
• Modulation machine: tremolo plus chorus, phaser, rotary, and more. The Walrus Mako M1.
• Dedicated analog throb: a tremolo that is only tremolo, voiced to sit on a clean amp. The Diamond Tremolo.
• Surf / amp-in-a-box pulse: spring-tank neighborhood, for reverb-and-trem players who want the Italian surf feel. The SurfyTrem.
• Compact analog: an MXR with harmonic and optical voices. The MXR Tremolo.

Where Most Players Start

• Walrus Mako M1: six modulation programs including tremolo, for players who want the whole movement family in one box.
• Strymon Flint V2: tremolo and reverb together, the amp-style pair a lot of players never unplug.
• Diamond Tremolo: a dedicated Diamond pulse, analog and musical, for players who only need the throb.
• SurfyTrem: surf tremolo with that spring-tank bounce, for clean chords that should chop.
• MXR Tremolo: harmonic and optical tremolo in an MXR, a compact pulse with more than one voice.
• Walrus Fundamental Tremolo: Walrus voicing in a smaller footprint, for always-on movement that never argues with the vocal.

Browse the tremolo pedals below and pick the one that sounds like the record in your head.