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Flexible and rich with liquid-to-choppy textures, this analog tremolo is addictive fun and a potent tone-shaper.

Abundant textures of analog trem’ you can really get lost in. Intuitive. Rich modulations.

Costs just enough to sting.

$279

JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk mk.2
jampedals.com

4.5
4.5
4
4

The second iteration of JAM’s Harmonious Monk, a tremolo pedal designed with Dan and Mick from That Pedal Show, has a way of making hours disappear. It’s super fun, full of sounds you can swim or drown in, and, after a short time, quite intuitive to use. I’d be surprised to encounter a gigging musician that couldn’t cover 90 percent of their tremolo needs with the mk.2. For most, I suspect, the mk.2 will cover every need and then some.

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Gently undulating modulation and hard-choppin' tremolo come together in a harmonic trem with copious control options.

Lush, complex harmonic tremolo. Easy to shape extreme modulations into serviceable textures. Well-integrated gain control generates cool dirt tones and compression. Well built.

Controls can feel overly sensitive.

$259

JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk
jampedals.com

5
4.5
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4

Harmonic tremolo deserves its own effect category—perhaps one without "tremolo" in the name at all. Harmonic tremolo (which modulates bass and treble frequencies separately before recombining them to very wobbly ends) and amplitude tremolo, (which attenuates volume at various rates) sound like siblings in many settings. At low effect levels, casual listeners might have trouble discerning a difference.

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