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    ERNIE BALL EXPRESSION TREMOLO

    Oct 31, 2018 3 minutes
    WORDS BY STEVE HENDERSON.

    Rocker pedals have been done, that’s for sure, and all manner of sound effects have been given the ‘variable real-time control’ treatment. The first two were the venerable wah pedal – way back in ’66 by the Thomas Organ Company – and the must-have-for-every-guitarist volume pedal; DeArmond was producing those in the ‘40s.

    Tremolo, too, has been a go-to effect for a long, long time – mostly for organ players, but guitarists soon enough adopted it just in time for the surf music scare of the early ‘60s. So, what sets Ernie Ball’s

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