Details: TREMOLO
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4. Ring Modulator – Tremolo Type 4 is Ring Modulator. Many old keyboards used to
have Ring Modulator circuits built into them, and this effect seems to be enjoying
something of a resurgent popularity recently. Artists in the Electronica world of music
have been running vocals through ring modulators, and we figured you might want to
have one in the AX2. With this Tremolo Type selected, the speeds are so fast that they
would make an audible tone if you were listening just to the tremolo modulation signal
itself. When this modulation is applied to your guitar tone, it creates something that
the engineers here call “sum and difference tones,” overlaid on your guitar sound.
Bizarre and beautiful.
TREMOLO SPEED / DEPTH / SHAPE
The Tremolo Depth (0-99) setting controls how far down the sound is turned by each
“pulse,” and the speed of the pulses is controlled by the Tremolo Speed (0-99) setting.
The shape of the tremolo “wave” can be varied from smooth and gradual (a sine wave)
to sharp and abrupt (a square wave) by the Tremolo Shape (0-99) setting. At slow
speeds with a soft shape, Stereo Tremolo provides continuous panning. At low to
moderate Depths and moderate Speeds, it’s like the sound of classic electric piano
tremolo.
TREMOLO ON/OFF
If the Trem/Chorus On/Off setting on the FX ON/OFF Edit Row is turned off, the
Tremolo effect will not be heard. If you adjust any of the Tremolo settings, the AX2
will turn the Tremolo effect on for you.
NO TREMOLO WITH ROTARY SPEAKER
The Tremolo settings are disabled when the Rotary Speaker simulation is selected for
the Chorus Type, since the Rotary Speaker is actually using the resources of the
tremolo in the background to make its cool simulation of a rotating speaker. If you
attempt to make any Tremolo settings in this situation, the display will temporarily
read – – –.
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