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Huw Price

“It may be the first dedicated guitar effect”: From its journey from amp to stompbox to how it works, this is everything you need to know about tremolo

Fender Super and Stratocaster.

Electronic tremolo employs circuitry to mimic musical effects that have traditionally been produced by playing techniques on certain instruments.

If you were ever required to memorise Italian terms for music theory exams, you may be familiar with the word tremolando, and there’s even notation for tremolo on musical scores. Tremolando from Italian translates as ‘trembling’ and can refer to fluctuations in volume, the fast repetition of a single note or rapid alternation between two notes.

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