Stonedeaf Tremotron

StoneDeaf Tremotron

When I first saw the Stonedeaf Tremotron, I thought it was a little gimmicky looking. It had blinky lights, and yea that was cool. But the graphics on the front are a little much.

Eventually, because I like to try all avenues, and I'd heard a lot of good things, I picked one up. What was not gimicky on this thing is the sound.

The first thing I noticed was how much of a hefty sound this thing produced on the sine wave setting. After taking a look at the wave diagram, it's easy to see where that comes from as it looks similar to the Throbby's wave form. Not the smoothest sine wave ever, but throb it does have.

Ultimately there are like 15 wave shape combinations on this pedal. But there is no adjusting you can do to those particular wave forms (which is partially why you need so many) From the front panel, it is not exactly clear what shapes you are working with at what times... So rather than sit here and try to explain. Lets just list them out.

Sine

Sawtooth

Sawtooth/Triangle 1

 

Sawtooth/Triangle 2

 

Triangle 

 

Reverse Sawtooth/Triangle 1

Reverse Sawtooth Triangle 2

Reverse Sawtooth

Sqaure 1

Square 2

Square 3

Square 4

Square 5

Square 6

Square 7

So hopefully the wave diagrams DE-mistify what shapes are available. 

You have tap tempo, a rate control, and tap sub divisions. 

Minimum Speed: ~11961 ms/cycle
Maximum Speed: ~7 ms/cycle

If you want a HUGE range in speed, you get this trem pedal. At it's slowest, it goes nearly 12 seconds per cycle. At it's highest setting it is basically a ring mod pedal. Very cool!

Ultimately, this Trem's supposed claim to fame is being able to add another syncd tremolo into the mix. This can allow you to get all sorts of crazy and interesting effects. "Normal" sounds doing this are in short supply, but for crazy experimental stuff, it's pretty awesome.

While the pedal has a volume control, some of the earlier models do have a Volume drop issue with certain power supplies. The manufacturer states  this is due to power supplies not providing the proper voltage. Later models were updated to not be affected by this. They state there is an internal trimmer that can be adjusted to give more gain as well.

Pro's

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 - Huge range in speed

 - Tap Tempo

 - 15 Wave Shapes

 - Tone Control

 - Volume Control

 - Great sound
 - Midi 

Cons

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 - A bit confusing when working with 2 trems 

 - Labeling on the wave shapes is not super clear 

 - Volume drop issue may be present on earlier models with certain power supplies