Review
Vintage amp tremolo has been tough to find in anything other than an amp until the recent boutique pedal boom hit. I have always loved the tremolo in my old Kustom amp but have never found anything in this size of a pedal that could duplicate it. Until now.
Alot of pedals sound like pedals and the Fluttertone blends in with the amp beautifully. The Fluttertone can do the slow swampy tremolo that I really love. The vintage throb is there and can be set very subtle or in your face using the depth control. Ramping the speed up and diming the depth can give you the hard choppy trem as fast as I could possibly need. The slow subtle swampy tremolo is where its at for me and the Fluttertone excels at it. Very happy with the sound of the pedal, no complaints at all. Other than trying to get my voice to sound like Fogerty after playing the pedal.Vintage amp tremolo lives inside this little pedal.
There are quite a few features to the Fluttertone that make it a winner for me. Starting with the top mounted jacks. This can save alot of room on a pedalboard and I am always happy to add a pedal with this feature. The size of the Fluttertone alone can be a good reason to purchase it. Not much bigger than a MXR size pedal the Fluttertone can save alot of room on the pedalboard nad you just dont see em this size very often.
A side mounted volume control! What? A volume control on a tremolo pedal ? Yes another feature that sets it apart from others on the market. The inside work is very neat and clean. Throw in a 9v power in jack and true bypass switching and it really has every feature and is the ideal size to make it a perfect tremolo to put on the pedalboard.
The only suggestion i could think of is to make the LED throb with the time of the trem. It seems trivial but there is something about seeing the light throb in that makes it seductive. This could possibly be done on the current production models, I will update the review if thats the case.
All in all a great vintage sounding, handbuilt tremolo pedal that has the features that I would want if I had one built.
