Your favorite trem for that fender vibe?

[mth5044]

Lay it on me, baby 

[petemoore]

  Tremulous LUne.
  Man that's one do-it-all most like Fender Tube tremolo, if you can dial all the knobs close...very cool ! That is a lot of tremolo ramp etc. control.
  Then there's the EA I like fine.
  ...after my Lune, doused in smoke, then flames, made an unfortunate surrender to the remainder of it's lifespan, including the NSL-32.

[CynicalMan]

I've never tried it but:


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[Brymus]

RG has a Fender Vibrato FET sim ,I havent tried it but if RG made it well enough said.
http://www.geofex.com/

[mth5044]

Thanks guys.

Hmmm that RG trem looks pretty temping. Anyone try it or make a layout yet?

[morcey2]

I built the first JFET version of RG's fender trem and I really like the sound of it.  It does capture the brownface trem 'vibe' (for lack of a better word) quite well.  About 2 days after I finished it, the second version came out with the boost at the output.  Wish I would have built that one because I do lose quite a bit of signal in mine.  I haven't used it for a while, but I'll probably throw a little clean boost board in there with it when I get a chance.

Matt

[Processaurus]

The brownface style trem is great, RG's circuit, based on the EA trem, though I haven't heard it, could benefit from Transmogrifox's modification that subs in a constant current source for a resistor and increases the depth.  In the brownface that would mean you can go deeper into the great half phaser, half trem territory, and get closer to the original's depth range I assume. 

His article:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=43902.0

and schematic:

http://www.geocities.com/transmogrifox/rEAgenerated_Trem

The constant current source is the 47K, 10K trimpot, 1uF, NPN transistor, and 1K huddled together in the lower left corner of the schematic, and would sub in for R20 and R11 on RG's schematic.

There is also a different, Phase 90 based version on Geofex too, that probably has deeper depth, but the one I tried is similar to the above idea, and is an outstanding effect.  Built the way it is in the schematic, it will surely sound nice, this is just an extra kick in the pants to get the range.  MarkM made a layout for the Geo circuit (it's called something other than ersatz brownface tremolo)