Tone City Tremble Tremolo Reviews

Unsubtle tremolo

This is a simple and easy to use tremolo pedal with not many features: no wave shape or bias control, just volume, depth and speed. Speed is obvious and goes from very slow to not so fast but fast enough for most. Volume is nice if you want to compensate the perceived vol loss when engaged or even for getting a hefty boost. Alas, depth renders this pedal borderline unusable : even at minimum it is too much. Therefore this tremolo is not subtle and is only good if you want a prominent or over the top effect. Not for me.

Best affordable tremolo

This tone city tremolo is one of the best affordable ones, every tone city pedal I've ever had is just amazing. Pro pedals for a cheap prize. It's very versatile en simple to use.

Budget Alternative to an AC30 Trem!

I play in a band where I sometimes use an AC30's built in tremolo + an additional tremolo for certain psychedelic effects. However some events just don't call for (or allow me) to bring an AC30, so I bought one of these to stick at the end of my pedal board.

This is where this is great - it's a fairly authentic replication of a sine wave 'Bias Trem'. It has the same level of depth and speed variety you'd normally have on an AC30, that is to say the speed is quite limited. Sine oscillators are like this by design, so for those who want a jack-of-all trade trem I'd look elsewhere. This is a recreation of a specific design.

It does like the variations in power amp distortion you get from an AC30, but in the FX loop of an amp it certainly could provide that. At this price point, who is complaining?