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Hey!

I've seen most of the videos of the Sea Machine on Youtube, but I still havent figured out, can it do a simple Tremolo effect, without the chorus ?

I wouldn't think so. It's a chorus, it doesn't change the volume of anything.

You won't find any standard trem sounds in the Sea Machine, no. Maybe some weird hiccup-y modulation that could give the impression of a pseudo-trem, but it won't pull double duty.

I finally got to spend some real time with my Sea Machine today, I will confirm it really doesn't do a tremolo effect.

However for its intended purpose, as a chorus, I am absolutely in love with it. I am a 'traditional', warm chorus sort of guy - I was worried that the SM would be 'too much' or 'too crazy' for me; It definitely can do that very modulated, crazy stuff (in fact it also can do some very lovely slap-back, echo and reverb which I totally wasn't expecting). I was worried that it would only have one 'useable' chorus sound for me - that is definitely not the case. There is so much room to move tonally with the six knobs interacting.

Changing between my pickups also yielded surprisingly different tones from one to another; my bridge humbucker had this warbly, glassy shimmer chorus, whereas my single coil had a more acoustic, 'organic' quality to it. I know that might sound like a bunch of TGP pap, I was just surprised how much of a difference changing between my pickups made with this pedal (I guess I'm used to fuzzes where they often don't care much what pickup you use).

TL;DR? No it doesn't do tremolo, but it is definitely a sweet, versatile pedal. Keeper for me.

Thanks for the replies.


I just got the Sea Machine today. What a wonderful machine.
Just one thing bugs me. It has awesome, and I mean awesome crazy sounds on it!

So... what bugs you about it? That it has awesome sounds on it? I'm getting mine tomorrow!

oops didnt complete the post.
One thing bugs me, is that it doenst allow 100% wet.
So the crazy sounds, which would sound even more AMAZING on their own, are allways mixed with the "normal" sound.

Is there any pot inside that can change that? any known mods ?

Wouldn't 100% wet just make it a vibrato? Unless it had multiple voices. I know if I run my acoustic through a Malekko vibrato through my amp at low volumes, the two sounds mix and you get a cool sounding chorus.

Also, when I do the same with tremolo, I get a spacey stereo tremolo effect with just one speaker and my acoustic.

zRobertez wrote:Wouldn't 100% wet just make it a vibrato? Unless it had multiple voices. I know if I run my acoustic through a Malekko vibrato through my amp at low volumes, the two sounds mix and you get a cool sounding chorus.

Also, when I do the same with tremolo, I get a spacey stereo tremolo effect with just one speaker and my acoustic.

I believe the sounds that are in this Awesome pedal go WAY beyond vibrato. Well, maybe huge crazy unreliable drunk cataclismic vibrato.

To my ears, some sounds would be way more effective if I could just dial out the dry signal, like the Cosmichorus v2 for example