100% wet tremolo - is it possible?

pauljoy · February 5, 2016 at 1:00 PM

Since moving over to the Kemper I've been able to nail pretty much every effect that I used on my previous board (Strymon Timeline & Mobius), with the exception of one. My band sometimes covers the song Boulevard of broken dreams by Green Day which has a distinctive 100% wet tremolo sound at the start. I can't seem to replicate this one so far as the tremolo on the KPA always lets the dry signal through even at 100% mix.

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Any tips?

Jimmyno · February 5, 2016 at 2:07 PM

Did you try with the tremolo after the stack section?

pauljoy · February 5, 2016 at 4:10 PM

Quote from Jimmyno

Did you try with the tremolo after the stack section?

No I haven't tried that, I was using it in the stomp section. If that makes a difference I'll give it a try tonight. Many thanks.

Laurens · February 5, 2016 at 4:32 PM

I think that should fix it. I have mine in the mod section and I'd say the effect is pretty spot-on. Don't forget that any running delays and reverbs come after the tremolo, and to have a complete silence, you need to turn those off.

TomBartels · February 5, 2016 at 5:20 PM

Correct, thats works. Check out the factory rig "Plexus Brutalus" that might be quite what you are looking for (with a few tweaks).

Per · February 5, 2016 at 5:34 PM

We can't do gated tremolo either. The only oscillator is a sine wave, it would be great to have more shapes, square etc.

Jimmyno · February 6, 2016 at 8:39 AM

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We can't do gated tremolo either. The only oscillator is a sine wave, it would be great to have more shapes, square etc.

Agreed. A step slicer would be very cool too.

skoczy · February 18, 2017 at 11:00 PM

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Since moving over to the Kemper I've been able to nail pretty much every effect that I used on my previous board (Strymon Timeline & Mobius), with the exception of one. My band sometimes covers the song Boulevard of broken dreams by Green Day which has a distinctive 100% wet tremolo sound at the start. I can't seem to replicate this one so far as the tremolo on the KPA always lets the dry signal through even at 100% mix.

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Any tips?

Hi @pauljoy

Not sure if you managed to get desired sound, but there was recent thread, where I found solution to this - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams tremolo"

HowTo: Sound effect of greenday's "boulevard of broken dreams" with kemper fx