Hearthrob Trem

[tskullt]

Hello all,
   I love trems and my fave so far is the Lune.  Has anyone here built both the Lune and the Hearthrob?  Opinions?
m.

[snoof]

I have built them both.  I had volume drop issues w/ my hearthrob, but it sounded great.  The Lune is very versatile, there's really no trem sound it can't do.  The only thing it can't do is the vibrato/trem sound.  MarkM and RG worked on a design a while back called the vibratone(i've built this as well, very nice), it is a slightly diff sound.  The bass and treb are slightly modulated.  I think it's still in MarkM's gallery.  If I only had to choose one trem, it would DEF be the lune.

[gluedtogether]

Check out Steve's Trem Bear too.

I just finished building one and am really happy with it. It has two speed controls, depth, bias and volume. Its very good at doing a chop style trem.

john lyons has clips of most of these on his site for reference. that may be a good place to start
http://www.mrdwab.com/john/soundclipspage.html

[tskullt]

Thanks for the replies.  I'm taking off friday and plan on building something!   I've got to re-house a phaser and I'd like to etch a couple boards and get some things going.  I'm going to build another lune - I lent mine to a friend and I'm never getting it back.   

So is the heartthrob different enough to make it to the pedal board, or should I just stick with the lune?  If you have both, which do you use?
m.

[snoof]

IMHO you don't need the hearthrob if you have the lune.  It's rather limited compared to the lune's or the trembear's capabilities.

[tskullt]

cool, thanks for that snoof...
m.