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Electro-Harmonix Stereo Pulsar

Tremolo pedal from Electro-Harmonix belonging to the Pulsar series

RaphRaymond RaphRaymond
Published on 03/12/07 at 17:15
Then it is a rather unusual tremolo and it takes a little time to make the turn and really understand it. Fully analog settings it offers depth / shape / rate things that are a little weird and a selector sawtooth (saw) / square (square).
There are two outputs for the stereo, but only one entry so you are bound to affect as mono before and usually the tremolo is all the time string that can cause problems (like a stereo delay, not possible, a synthetic stereo either ...)
The pedal is light but seems sturdy, the knobs are a bit heavy is nickel. It is smaller than the single pulsar, it is as long as a boss and is about 1 cm more width.

Power is supplied to the standard Boss / Ibanez, 9 Volt DC, + on the outer ring - the inner consumes 100mA, 200mA power supply is one recommended by the record. The location for the battery (I had provided a ...) frankly leaves to be desired, it is basically "just like that between circuits ...". So it&#39;s a bit rock&#39;n&#39;roll but ... There&#39;s a kind of piece of foam slightly to accommodate informed. I use a good pout my external power supply.

The small loupiote red lights when the effect is activated and its brightness varies according to the parameters of the effect. Bypass LED is off, it does not see the beating, it&#39;s a good detail ...

I would not put 10 for single entry ... (How I do me for my keyboard? My line6 echo park she did that, it:-p)

UTILIZATION

So I will detail how to work a little beast ... It&#39;s quite surprising, but it&#39;s a monster versatility.

Button depth is special because it is the way to 13h/14h (not 17h), it goes beyond the negative. That is, he does reappear in phase opposition signal or something like that, the "tempo" of tremolo and then multiplied by two but with a sound a little dull for once in opposition of phase. It allows you to make rhythmic 3-level, instead of 1 / 0 as a classic tremolo, it makes 1/0/-1/0 etc ... It&#39;s very interesting to diversify, especially for what follows.
The button shape, which is usually used to go from one form of a sine square has a different role here. Saw mode, it will amount to a saw saw a top-down passnt saw a symmetrical, which is very close to a sinus when we play a little with depth. Mode square is played on the length of the opening, at least the sound is cut all the time, to the maximum open time at noon is 50/50 (tremolo regular and symmetrical).
It may therefore be in good vintage as in the modern mega hyper ground, and little more in the interaction of the two first button is playing with the depth of opposition phase and length of opening of the square wave or saw, you can have a tremolo in the shuffle bit crooked in either ... It&#39;s magical and I know no one who did that.

The button does not surprise special rate, it is a tremolo than the second (violoning) up to very high, the variation is still visible but uncountable.

Small flat, button shape varies a bit rate ... The more one goes in the direction of clockwise over the slow rate. It&#39;s weird, it does so in both modes, it is not very logical because the period should be independent of the waveform but ... It can sometimes be a little handicapping (for a readjustment live on stage for example). 10 not just for that, because otherwise it deserves.

SOUND QUALITY

Really nice, I&#39;ve played on the tremolo Marshall, nothing to see. The saw can be very soft, very vintage, the square can be very aggressive. The settings are extensive and progressive and weight / resistance allows for a lot of precision, unlike some pedals where the buttons are so light they turn too easily and the settings are often compromised or less because that happens not to be precise.
It blows a little bit, but it&#39;s very light, much less a whammy for example. And as a pedal of this kind that starts the chain end, or at least after the saturation, there&#39;s no reason to change that.
A common criticism of the volume problems with tremolos. This is mainly due to the fact that playing as the effect on the volume, it is almost never fully (with a sine or saw at least), so the ear hears a sound close to 75 or 80% volume bypassed. On that one sound to be boosted a little bit because in the end it&#39;s more balanced that it is only a small loss in saw mode (almost inaudible in the average values ​​of depth and shape) and a small gain more square, but I&#39;m not even sure ... again it depends on the settings of shape and depth.

OVERALL OPINION

I use intensemment for a week and I&#39;m really pleased. It is a perfect all-round, it just music or surfing the cyber-punk two-stroke knob is great ... We quickly get to the beauty of the saw for ballads that make girls cry, and quickly take his guitar for a synth with the square. Put a saturation and a phaser and just before it is huge as it does, according to the saturation you can go kind of synth not Get Fooled Again punish those of ...
Brief € 69 on the net ... Need I say more. Nothing to lose and I do not think you can really be disappointed with such a tremolo as it is very versatile and the parameters are very broad.
It must nevertheless take the time to get to the settings, get used to the depth that is the way to the mid race and to be careful to shape that moves a bit rate, perhaps 10 bpm between the two extremes still so this means, right after, which will hear the details of a waveform of a tremolo live fully in its own guitarist ...