Guitar Player Editors' Pick
MXR TREMOLO
TESTED BY ART THOMPSON
Guitar Player Editors’ Pick
IT’S ALWAYS NICE when a product offers more than meets the eye. MXR’s new Tremolo pedal seems straightforward enough at first blush, but this compact pedal is one powerful modulation box, with six tremolo styles that are selected by pushing the gain knob, which also controls the volume of the effect. The Tremolo carries depth and speed controls — along with input and output jacks and a nine-volt input for the included adapter — but it quickly gets much deeper thanks to a CTR (control) jack and accompanying two-position slider switch that allows the use of an optional foot switch for tap tempo, or an optional expression pedal to blend between two different tremolo settings. Depending on how the switch is set, there are also three available stereo (TRS) modes: Stereo Input, Stereo Output, and a mode for panning the tremolo effect from one output to another.