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Product Description

Here's What Origin Effects Say About the RevivalTREM

The RevivalTREM is the first ever pedal to faithfully recreate power tube bias tremolo, the sought-after effect found in a handful of classic amps from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. More than just a tremolo pedal, the RevivalTREM also delivers a deliciously chewy and rich Brown Fender-style overdrive tone that interact with the bias tremolo effect just like the real thing.

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True power tube bias tremolo, in a pedal!

Based on the RevivalDRIVE platform, the RevivalTREM houses a complete valve amp-style signal path recreated in all-analogue electronics.

This allows it to recreate the uniquely musical and dynamically responsive bias tremolo effect at circuit level, while also offering a broad palette of stunning clean and overdriven amp tones voiced after the Brown Fender Deluxe.

A range of modern features, including switchable wave shapes, tap tempo, rhythmic subdivisions and effects switcher integration, bring modern convenience to the RevivalTREM’s authentic vintage tones.

Dynamically responsive tremolo 

Smooth, deep and rich, bias tremolo is considered by many to be the pinnacle of built-in amp trem. In contrast to optical and VCA-based tremolo designs, which attenuate the signal itself, bias tremolo works by varying the bias voltage fed to the amp’s power tubes, giving the effect its unique character and almost magical dynamic qualities.

While other tremolos impose themselves on top of your playing, bias tremolo has the capacity to respond to it. As power amp gain increases, loud notes and chords are able to rise above the effects of bias modulation. Digging in harder allows you to “play over” the tremolo effect, before letting it fade back in as the note dies away or you soften your pick attack.

The RevivalTREM’s amp-like circuitry reproduces this effect exactly, right down to the complex interaction between gain, bias voltage, playing dynamics and harmonic content.

Authentic Deluxe tones, from clean to mean

In the designing the RevivalDRIVE Compact, we worked hard to distil the complex functionality of the original pedal into an intuitive set of controls while still retaining as much range as possible.

The brand-new Highs control takes the original pedal’s three distinct preamp voicing modes and maps them onto a single, continuous knob that offers a wealth of new in-between settings.

We also redesigned the Blend knob to simultaneously back off the gain as you mix in your clean tone, ensuring pleasing, musical results throughout the control’s travel.

Vintage tremolo meets modern features

As well as a wider range of Speed and Intensity settings, we’ve provided two different LFO wave shapes – a smooth, Deluxe-style sine wave and a less symmetrical, Magnatone-style rectified sine wave.

Attaching an external footswitch enables tap tempo and remote tremolo on/off switching, while the same footswitch input allows direct integration with effects switching systems like the Boss ES series or TheGigRig G2. The RevivalTREM’s speed multiplier switch offers quarter-note, eighth-note and triplet tempo subdivisions while also shifting the range of the pedal’s Speed knob.

With high-quality components throughout, the RevivalTREM is designed and built for professional performance and rock-solid reliability.

Please note: the RevivalTREM is powered by a mains adaptor only (not included). We’ve dispensed with the usual 9V battery option, both to save space and to allow us to adopt a high-current approach, yielding lower noise levels and superior tone.

Specifications

  •  Authentic valve amp-style signal path recreated in all-analogue electronics
  • True bias tremolo with switchable wave shapes
  • Realistic vintage amp tones voiced after the Brown Fender Deluxe
  • Powerful Post-Drive EQ for matching with a variety of guitar amps, power amps, and mixers.
  • Footswitch input for tap tempo, remote tremolo on/off and effects switcher integration
  • High-current, low-noise electronics
  • Ultra-high input impedance
  • Silent switching
  • High-quality buffered bypass mode
  • Premium components throughout
  • Advanced power supply filtering and protection
  • PSU Spec. 120mA @ 9V, centre-negative (PSU not included)
  • Designed and built in England

Customer Reviews

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Jonathan Planner25th Aug 2021

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Barney Nikolic5th Jun 2021

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Ben Lanning4th Feb 2021

This pedal is heavenly. truly the most inspiring pedal I've got in years. This just adds some magic to the sound, I really can't describe it, but its truly beautiful with a lovely warmth for all pedals. It's immediately become an 'always on pedal' with the tremolo added as an when needed. and, not to forget, the dynamics of the tremolo as gorgeous; the harder you attack the strings the less prevalent the tremolo is, exactly like a tube amp. For context I'm using this with a Strymon Iridium with headphones (new born baby at home mean using my amp is off the table), and various drives, delays, and reverbs. £360 for a pedal is a large amount of money, especially buying it during lockdown without hearing the pedal in person before buying, but I'm so glad I got it. Its built like a tank and will likely survive a nuclear bomb blast if needed (with Covid ongoing at the moment I hope we don't add nuclear war to the mix but then again this time last year we didn't know about Covid... its a funny world).

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Herv? LAUNAY13th Apr 2020

Good pedal, sounds natural like an old Brown or Blackface .Easy to use.

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer6th Mar 2020

Great pedal!

Value 5Sound 5

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