bias-varying tremolo on a stand alone unit ?

[cbass]

The version I have of the gretsch has an intensity control.I drawn a schmatic I'll try to find it.But I was thinkin it was implemented pretty much the same way fender did.Except one leg of the pot goes to ground instead of the bias circuit.

[mat]

Big thanks everyone for the suggestions! I'll get back to the build after solving a noise problem on another build.

[mat]

Back to the build (standalone loop buffer/tremolo/reverb). I'm little confused how to set the order of the 3 circuits (2 tube reverb, 1 tube tremolo and dumbleator). What I would like to achieve is to have opportunity to bypass every 3 circuits. Should the reverb and tremolo be before or after the active loop ?

Any suggestions for the order ?

Thanks,

[tubeswell]

Have you got a schematic you're working to so far?

[LeftyStrat]

Back to the build (standalone loop buffer/tremolo/reverb). I'm little confused how to set the order of the 3 circuits (2 tube reverb, 1 tube tremolo and dumbleator). What I would like to achieve is to have opportunity to bypass every 3 circuits. Should the reverb and tremolo be before or after the active loop ?

Any suggestions for the order ?

Thanks,

Personal opinion, and I've seen it done differently, but my choice would be tremolo, fx send, reverb. Here's my reasoning:

- Tremolo into delay can get some interesting rhythmic things going.

- Tremolo into later distorting stages can be neat because is more than volume manipulation, because it can modulate between clean and dirty, changing the harmonic content.

- Room acoustics are always the last thing in your signal chain, and reverb is a simulation of room acoustics.

Of course rules are made to be broken. I'm sure some interesting effects can be had by a different order. You could always have separate ins and outs and patch them however you wanted. With normalized jacks, you could have a default order that is broken when the jack is used.

[mat]

Have you got a schematic you're working to so far?

Not yet. Actually I often draw only a layout by hand and build from there.

I was thinking Wallbangers suggestion (http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/supro_s6616.pdf) of the Supro tremolo into dlator into Heistils 2 tube reverb.

Would the Supro trem tube then connect to the first stage of the D-lator ? Then the D-lator should be always on but I don't think that would be a problem.

[mat]

You could always have separate ins and outs and patch them however you wanted. With normalized jacks, you could have a default order that is broken when the jack is used.

Good suggestion