EHX SUper Pulsar

[Inconuucl]

Anyone have one? I've been gassing hardcore for one and want to hear more about it.

[Casavettes]

I thought I was going to fall in love with it but... there was just something about it that felt underwhelming. It definitely does some crazy shit though.

[penelope tree]

I'm a satisfied owner but I'm not exactly a tremolo connoisseur. The range of options it provides (envelope mode, expression pedal control, etc) is impressive and I think it would take a lot to encourage me to upgrade to a more expensive tremolo pedal.

[UglyCasanova]

Tried one for 30-40 minutes. Cool features but it sounded kind of...dead? Without character somehow. Difficult to explain. Sterile? Anyways, I was really GASing for one but after having tried it, nothing.

[Inconuucl]

[Casavettes]

Tried one for 30-40 minutes. Cool features but it sounded kind of...dead? Without character somehow. Difficult to explain. Sterile? Anyways, I was really GASing for one but after having tried it, nothing.

Yup

[echorec]

Tried one for 30-40 minutes. Cool features but it sounded kind of...dead? Without character somehow. Difficult to explain. Sterile? Anyways, I was really GASing for one but after having tried it, nothing.

This seems to be a common theme. It seems like a lot of people feel it doesn't have enough warmth.

---Can't this be remedied by putting it in front of other pedals with more body/warmth/presence? Then you could get the depth of the effect, without compromising the desired sound.

[greyscales]

My bandmate had one for a while but he seemed so uninspired by it that he never even turned it on when we played.

And then he traded it for a broken chorus pedal if that tells you anything.

[Inconuucl]

I guess it's back to the gravitas for me then. The pulsar just has such an amazing feature set though.

[Dandolin]

Another suggestion? tl/dr alert

The 80Tape Variable State Tremolo is one wily S.O.B. of an ultra-trem.

Multiple waveforms and a shape/bias control to warp them--check.
A mode where you can tap in your own rhythmic pulses, which can then be further warped--check.
A control for introducing random noise into the lfo/tapped waveform--check.
A selection between either no filter on yer pulses, an lpf (darker or, with certain waveforms and shape settings, quite Juno-esque) or hpf (still working that out, lol, but brighter, yeah?)--check.
Tap tempo with 4 subdivisions--check.

Enough with the check.

The thing I love most? CV in and out. CV in to control speed, noise, shape, or depth and also direct control of the pulse for infinultra waveforms.

Or, tap in your sequence, warp it, dowse it with noise and send it out via cv to your delay/flanger/philter/phaser/sample-rate reducer what have you....

High head room and lots of range on shape/duty cycle, plus those filters, so, me, I'm not really noticing any "deadness." But I'm pretty sure it is vca based, so it's not going to be a swampy LDR-based opto, or bias, Tremulator type trem from the more "soulful" and "organic" past. I've found it performs well as a rhythm/chop/slice source, but also, with shape softened a little, some noise introduced, and in a blender with the level reduced a bit (yes--it has level control to cut or boost beyond unity), it excels as a way to introduce non-rhythmic movement behind your core sound--as glitchy or normal as you want/as can be achieved by manipulation of volume.

Is it my end-all tremolo? Maybe not--I'm definitely holding onto the insanely beautiful artifact/alien communications device I got from dminner, which is some kind of DIY eargasm of trem modes; and probs my Hollow Earth because it's the only time I ever scored something that rare, mostly, but also because I love everything about cloudscapes. But I am seriously contemplating moving on from my GK3.

Or Gravitas could work, I suppose.

[Inconuucl]

That 80tape sounds amazing. I want to hear it, know any demos around? YouTube turned up nothing.

[UglyCasanova]

[Inconuucl]

Need.

[Dandolin]

That's the one--thanks UC.

Love what Jonny's doing! It's definitely worth considering along with the other top-notch trems like Gravitas, which is defo. no slouch....

[Jwar]

I mean, it sounds pretty fucking badass IMO. I'd be hard pressed to believe anyone that it's not good. It does sound a bit sterile from the demos, but you can always find a use for that stuff if you're creative. I say it's cheap enough, buy it and try it. Or wait for me to get one later. lol