tremolo

For unknown reasons he called this a tremolo system, even though the effect produced using it is vibrato (varying pitch) rather than tremolo (varying volume).

And it took a long time because inevitably the tremolo would go out of time with the track because the tremolo doesn't stay in regular clock time.

Next is tremolo: rapidly plucking the same string with alternating fingers, while playing bass notes with your thumb.

A lot of it just sounds like white noise, or percussion, or tremolo notes.

Fender put a vibrato system on their 1954 Stratocaster but called it a tremolo system and that stuck in the electric guitar world.

That had a tremolo effect built in, but Fender marketed as vibrato.

Adding tremolo makes it sound a bit like ocean waves.

Does this make Johnny Marr a Manc rocket scientist because he rigged a bunch of pedals together to create the tremolo effect in How Soon Is Now?

...and ever since generations of electric guitarists have been confused over tremolo and vibrato, because Leo Fender mixed them up.

It's a running joke amongst guitar players no two people pronounce D'Addario the same way, not to mention the tremolo bar which technically should be called a vibrato bar.

The Uni-Vibe (though not a Fender product) is a phaser trying to imitate a rotary speaker, for which the slow and fast settings are often called chorale and tremolo.

I use this sox command: #!/bin/bash play -q -c 2 -n synth brownnoise band -n 1600 1500 tremolo.1 30 You can adjust the frequency and other parameters to suit your environment.

That included a circuit to rapidly vary volume (which is called "tremolo") but they called it a "vibrato" system, thus completing Fender's complete reversal of the meaning of vibrato and tremolo.

(My wife pipes in "Way to go, Master of the obvious..." with much tremolo).

That's why the arm on many electric guitars that you can jiggle to cause pitch variation (which is called "vibrato") is often called a "tremolo" arm.