Electro-Harmonix
EDDY VIBRATO/CHORUS
TESTED BY MICHAEL ROSS
I THINK WE can all agree Leo Fender is a god of the electric guitar world. Unfortunately, he’s also something of a devil, having done more to sow confusion about vibrato and tremolo than any other human being.
To understand how, you need to know that tremolo is a fluctuation in volume, like rocking a volume pedal rapidly up and down, while vibrato is the fluctuation in pitch we recognize in singers, or Clapton’s wiggling finger. Yet we often mix them up, largely because Leo regularly called the tremolo effect in his amps vibrato, and because the pitch-shifting, vibrato bar of a Fender Strat is still marketed as a tremolo system.