Tremolo / Stereo Pan

Honestly, it might make more sense to send it off to http://www.jimdunlop.com/ and have it repaired. I've got the same Dunlop trem/pan and it's still working only the stereo switch is broken off.

In the meantime I've been searching for months for a stereo trem/pan box that has a foot pedal control over the rate. I've tried a couple of the tap rate ones, but they're a pain in the butt to use, especially if you want to change tempo in the middle of a song. There's two I've settled on...

Lovetone Wobulator: Does exactly what I want, but is also CRAZY EXPENSIVE and impossible to find.
Tone Czar Powerglide: Does exactly what I want, but is also $$$ and there's a waiting list months long.

:(

With the exchange rate, it's cheaper to buy a new one in teh States than to get it repaired.

But I thought I'd see what else is available. I have to play to a drum machine/sequencer so I really need fine control on the speed. Only other person I really know who uses one gets his drummer to lock on to his beat. I don't have that option. :-/

Could you maybe get something like a used Digitech studio quad, which syncs to MIDI and (I THINK) includes a tremelo among its effects. I've seen them go for fifty quid or so on ebay.

But can I twiddle its knobs live?

This is my problem, I need a dual purpose tremolo - one to synch to click, and another to go "offclick" for wibbling.

I might just be better off getting another Dunlop, at least I pretty much knew where my settings were on it but touch and sight and the flashing light speed.

...or maybe I should ask DOCTOR SCIENTIST to build me such a beast.

With the exchange rate, it's cheaper to buy a new one in teh States than to get it repaired

The only catch is that you can't get a new one because Dunlop discontinued it.

I've seen them on eBay recently!

I got a raise at work and the following day I found someone local who was selling a Wobulator.

Bloody hell it's fantastic.

http://www.catalinbread.com/sem.html

Played the first gig with Kate using the pro-chop bloody fantastic.

I desperately want to try one of these

Update! I still love the Wobulator, but it's been retired to studio use only. I just got one of these: http://www.strymon.net/products/flint/

I feel like I now have the ability to destroy entire landforms and open up dimensional portals.

I looked at that and for a second thought that the 60s 70s and 80s switch was for seconds and it blew my mind for a moment before I realised.

gaaah that thing is cool but i can never bring myself to drop $300 on a single pedal.

Basically, no pedal is worth that much, but the only $$$ pedal I've bought and thought was worth it was a Strymon reverb

strymon is interesting in that they are all ex line 6 dudes but they do their level best not to let anyone know that because ewwwww line 6

actually there was an intermediate step where they were making those "damage control" pedals that no one bought.

my current fave is the earthquaker devices hummingbird

and i will also throw down for the elctro harmonix pulsar, esp in the sub $100 category.

Huh, I didn't know that.

(ex-Line 6)

xxp: Be sure to get the Hummingbird II. I accidentally bought a Hummingbird I off of ebay and it only has a rate knob. No depth or level. Still has great chop, but not very versatile.

N00b question, what is the problem with Line6? (pod owner)

It's not that there's a problem with Line6 so much as Strymon is aiming for a different kind of consumer.

The Way Huge guy is a Line 6 alum too, iirc.

im not actually talking smack abt line 6 at all, but from a business side you can bet that there are plenty of boutiquey fuxors that would just ignore the strymon stuff out of hand if it were "sullied" with the whiff of line 6

want that $trymon

Like Chipotle / McDonalds?

haha that is actually a very apt metaphor actually

shit i want an el capistan / timeline too if it weren't for the sticker shock

Ordered an EHX pulsar. Pretty excited about it. Other than using it to shift between two amps, does anybody use the stereo outs to shift between two different effects chains or anything like that? Not that I have a shit-ton of other pedals right now. Just wondering if anyone had done anything like this to pleasant outcomes.

good call on the pulsar, its fantastic, esp for the price.

fyi if any of you still have a love for the dunlop tremolo, but it now, because they are going away again.

you didnt hear that from me.

I just picked up a Pulsar today actually. Square wave, rate set low, through a phaser, decent impression of the intro to Won't Get Fooled Again.