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...and ever since generations of electric guitarists have been confused over tremolo and vibrato, because Leo Fender mixed them up. One the the Stratocaster's
by tzs 2y ago
...and ever since generations of electric guitarists have been confused over tremolo and vibrato, because Leo Fender mixed them up.
One the the Stratocaster's major innovations was a bridge system that allowed for large string bends without messing up intonation. For unknown reasons he called this a tremolo system, even though the effect produced using it is vibrato (varying pitch) rather than tremolo (varying volume).
He did a similar thing with the Fender Vibrolux amp. That had a tremolo effect built in, but Fender marketed as vibrato.
- changexd 2y agowow thanks for the explanation, I always thought they are the same thing but presented differently and never tried to look it up.
- hayley-patton 2y agoThe Uni-Vibe (though not a Fender product) is a phaser trying to imitate a rotary speaker, for which the slow and fast settings are often called chorale and tremolo. Go figure.
- v9v 2y agoThe same labels can be found on Leslie rotary speakers: https://www.hammondtoday.com/img_4719-2/ https://www.hammondtoday.com/img_4719-2/