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- Hey everyone, it's is John Dreyer
and thanks for tuning in on Tap.
Today we have the newest addition
to the Fender MTG pedal line
and that's the MTG Tube Tremolo.
This pedal brings you classic tube tremolo tones
normally found in vintage amplifiers
and we conveniently placed it into a stomp box.
It utilizes a US made NOS 6205 preamp tube
like the rest of the MTG models.
It's an all original Fender circuit,
it includes a number of controls
to dial in the perfect tremolo tone.
So the gear I'm using for this demo,
I have a Fender American pro Telecaster
plugged into the tube tremolo pedal
then going into the Fender 68 Custom Vibrolux reverb amp,
have a couple of microphones in front of the amplifier
then going into my doll, into my computer.
So the MTG Tube Tremolo was designed with Bruce Egnater,
like the rest of the MTG pedals,
along with Fender's own Stan Cody
and like those pedals it uses a vacuum tube, the 6205,
which provides a rich warm tone.
So let's look through all the controls,
see what everything does
and then we'll hear some more tones.
So we can start with the level.
This controls the gain through the tube stage,
it's at unity gain when the knob
is set a little below nine o'clock.
This means that settings above nine o'clock
provide a really nice natural great sounding tube boost.
And with the intensity controls set to minimum,
the pedal effectively becomes a tube boost.
We have the speed which is pretty obvious
it sets the speed of the effect,
now between the tap footswitch and the speed knob,
whichever you adjusted most recently, will take priority.
So if you recently adjusted the speed knob,
that's the setting for the the time,
if you recently used the tap tempo
and then that will take priority.
There's an intensity control
that controls the intensity of the effect.
You will note that when fully counterclockwise,
it has zero depth and then fully clockwise,
it sets the intensity such that
the valley of the waveform turns the audio off.
This means that the pedal will sweep
from full level to no level
when the intensity control is set to maximum.
The average volume level drops a tad
as you adjust intensity,
so the level control is there to compensate for that.
Now, the wave knob works along with the mode switch.
And the mode switch we have three different sets
of modulated waveforms.
In the up position, we have triangle to square
which provides a smooth, a choppy effect.
In the middle position we have sawtooth to triangle
for various degrees of wobble
and then in the down position or pulse width
that offers up stuttering types of tremolo effects.
And then with the wave knob itself,
you can morph between all those settings.
So you can have all of one, all of the other
or set it in the middle to have a nice blend of both.
Then we have your bypass switch
to turn the effect on and off and then the tap tempo.
Now, right out of the box
the pedal will give you an eighth note tremolo effect
when you tap in quarters,
and then you can select a different resulting subdivision
from your quarter note tap
by holding down the tap footswitch
and then turning the speed knob
to one of the other available subdivisions.
Alright, let's hear all three settings of the mode switch
and then we'll use the wave knob to select both sides
and then a blend in the middle of each.
But first, here's the bypass tone,
this is just the guitar and the amplifier.
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All right, so we can start in the up position
which is triangle to square.
So on the left side, a little more smooth
and then on the square side, a little more choppy.
Let's hear that.
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Okay, over to the right square.
Again a little more choppy.
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Now here in the middle, a 50-50 blend.
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Alright, let's go into the middle position
which is sawtooth to triangle so,
this is where you'll hear
a little bit of warble or wobble come in to the effect.
Let's start on the far left here, there we go.
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Over to the right.
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Now a 50-50 blend of both.
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All right, then we can go
to the down position which is pulse width.
This is where we're going to hear
more of a stuttering type of effect.
I'll start in the far left,
adjust my intensity a little bit there
and speed and level, here we go.
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Far right.
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And then in the middle.
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So, a couple of our other favorite settings,
one would be in the middle position on the mode switch
with the wave knob set to around 10 or 11 o'clock,
it gives you a really cool, swampy, asymmetrical effect.
I've also increased the reverb on the amp
to add to the swampiness, so let's hear that
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All right I also want to add that the pedal is true bypass
and runs on regular nine volt DC power
although at 200 milliamps,
your power supply will need to accommodate that.
So there you go,
that's the Fender MTG Tube Tremolo pedal.
Sounds great on its own,
sounds great paired with other effects like overdrive,
modulation, delay even fuzz
which I'm going to use for the outro performance.
When you have time, please head over to fender.com
to check out the full line of Fender pedals
and as always, you can stay tuned here for more video.
We'll, see you
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