Fulltone Supa-Trem Tremelo

It has lots of features but they're all straightforward and easy to understand. Mine is from May 2000. It has true bypass with LED, speed doubler/halfing switch with blinking LED, hard/soft trem switch, and rate and mix knobs. The mix knob balances the lower volume limit and thus the amount of signal you here between volume drops. There is also an internal trim pot that fine tunes the mix range in the soft setting. It took 5 minutes to figure this thing out but I'm still surprised by new trem sounds when I fiddle with it! Takes one 9V or BOSS-style negative core AC adaptor.

The soft trem setting is very nice and warm. The hard trem sounds cool in itself, too, not too harsh when set reasonably. My only complaint is that I have yet to find a mix setting where I can switch between good hard and soft sounds; if the hard setting is set at anything below a stutter (not the best sound you can get) the soft setting is not audible, except for the boost mentioned in other reviews. If I set the mix for the soft setting at a nice mild vintage-ish level, the hard setting drops off so much you can only hear a microsecond of your signal (not a realistic effect or even a particularly interesting one). I have adjusted the internal pot as much as possible but to no avail. Other than this one annoying thing, this is pedal covers everything I need amazingly well! With individual settings, both modes sound exceptional in any respect.
Here's what I'm using with it:
Fender Mex Tele->Dunlop Crybaby (crap)->Mu-Tron Phasor II->SupaTrem->Mesa Nomad 45 with BOSS NF-1 noise gate and DD-3 Delay in the fx loop.

I bought it used off ebay and it has not had a single problem electronically or physically in the 6 months I've had it. Very sturdy construction and yet innards are easily accessible by removing 4 rubber feet (this must be done to get to the 9V battery. No backup required, unless you like to go Townsend on your stuff in which case you're probably not smart enough to read this, anyways.

Never had a problem and I don't expect to. Based on reputation I'd give this a 10.

very easy to use. if you cant figure it out you have problems...

my set up is a gibson sg standard and l.p. standard through a modified fender quad reverb (el34s, trem channel converted to a pre amp. it is also cut into a head) through a tonemaster 4x12. effects used are fulltone fulldrive 2 (incredible) vox wah (does the job) and an A/B box.
the supatrem produces no extra noise at all but it is nowhere near as good as my original trem that i took out. i will probably re-mod my amp back to original trem channel. my biggest beef is the overall warmth (lacking) and sustain(not long enough) of the trem. its TOO CLINICAL and the edge of the wave is too sharp (just not round enough) in tone. i just dont believe that a non tube pedal can reproduce the tone of one generated with a tube. i am open to suggestion to correct my predicament. email me please!

fulltone stuff is bullet proof. they burn the batteries fast but they build superior products...

i actually contacted them via internet for putting a bypass in my wah. it was simple and easy to locate...

i play loud rock n roll in the tradition of the STONES, STOOGES, MC5, RADIO BIRDMAN, NY DOLLS... tremolo can work in this genre but this pedal didnt do it for me.

i have been playing long eneought to know what works for me and what doesnt.

if it was stolen i would collect my insurance $$$ cause the rest of my
efefcts are in the same box...

i love the simplicity, the hard trem soft trem switch, the speed switch (which will double time the wave) i dont hate anything about it. i just dont feel it comes close to duplicating the original trem.

i wish all fulltone products had pots that were not so exposed and easy to turn. playing live my knobs are all over the place. a strip of white medical tape across the tops of the knobs will fix this though (i just figures this one out).

trem in general is a great tool that can be used to great effect when used wisely (gimme shelter is one perfect example)in both ballsy rocked out songs or more mellower stuff...

this is just my opinion... but... i rated this a 7 overall based on its sound/tone quality. all the other stuff should always be there but the sound quality is thee most important...

Very Simple design, laid out well (for a stomp box).

Quite simply the best sounding tremolo pedal out there. Better than any amp's built in tremolo I have tried (tweed, brown tolex through blackface fenders). Very organic sounding. I like the mid-high tone boost feature as well.

Never failed me on a gig.

The absolute best customer service period. I use 3 of Mike's pedals (all of which are must haves for my sound) in my rig. The soul Bender, Fulldrive II (comp cut only) and Supa-Trem. From time to time I use the Clyde Wah and Ultimate Octave. I also own a Fat Boost and 69 Pedal. Last year the Soul Bender Switch failed. I had a replacement switch within 48hrs. Just recently, the hard/soft switch on the supa-trem failed. I decided to take stock, wrote down all the serial numbers and dates for my fulltone pedals and sent Mr. Fuller an e-mail. Mike responded within 2 hours with a request to call for instructions. I had this misfortune of buying most of these pedals within the same time period and most were going to be subject to long term switch failures. Mr. Fuller was very apologetic and was preparing my switches for shipment as we spoke. He paid for the switches and postage. He doesn't like to bull shit, neither do I when I'm working. To anyone who thinks debating transistor selection and designs is an indicator of good customer support, GET A GRIP! Try getting this kind of service elsewhere, you just won't find it. Again, his only concern was to make sure I got my pedals up and running.

There are some great small pedal makers out there. I own and use many (i.e. ZVex, SIB, Lovetone, Klon, Way Huge Delay, etc...) of these pedals. I do not say one is better or worse, they all have the goods, just different flavours. That said, the only non-Fulltone pedal to make it on my live pedal board is a Way Huge Aqua-Puss Delay. Others come and go but I always run through a Soul Bender-Fulldrive II-SupaTrem-Way Huge Aqua puss right into Vox amps(AC30, AC15). Again, I have seen some complaints about Fulltone Customer Service and found non of the complaints to be true in my experiences. If you want to bull shit call a buddy or family do not bug someone trying to put food on the table.

10, VERY EASY, ALL KNOBS ANS SWITCHES DO WAHT THEY SAY THEY DO. THE MANUAL IS STRAIGHTFORWARD AND EASY TO READ AND USE.

THE SOUND IS SUPERB--CLEAN, DEEP, SWAMPY WHEN MY AMP IS DARKER AND SHIMMERY WHEN THE AMP IS SET BRIGHTER. I USE IT WITH MY TOP HAT CLUB DELUXE, MATCHLESS TORNADO AND FENDER PRO JR. IT CAN SOUND LIKE DUKE ROBILLARD, SLIM HARPO, JOHN FOGERTY, A LESLIE, JIMMY VAUGHN OR ANY ONE ELSE WITH TONE AND TASTE--IF YOU WANT TO SOUND LIKE OTHER PEOPLE

YES. FULLTONE ARE THE BEST, THEY LOOK, FEEL AND ARE SOLID, STRONG EFFECTS. YOU ONLY NEED ONE, UNLIKE THE DIAZ TREMODILLO WHICH I WOULD ONLY USE IF THE SUPA TREM WAS THERE TO BACK IT UP, AS MY TREMODILLO SOUNDS DIFFERENT EVERY TIME I USE IT

VERY VERY HELPFUL. I SENT MR. FULLER ( I NEVER MET HIM, SO TO CALL HIM MIKE, AS IF HE WERE A FRIEND ISN'T RIGHT) AN EMAIL, WITH A QUESTION. HE SENT ME BACK A REPLY 20 MINUTES LATER--EVEN THOUGH HE HAD JUST GOTTEN BACK FROM VACATION AND WAS PROBABLY SWAMPED!! HE WAS CURTEOUS, FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL--UNLIKE CESAR DIAZ WHO WOULD NOT REPAIR MY UNIT AT COST(!!); TOLD ME IT WAS BROKEN AND THEN THAT IT WASN'T; ACCUSED ME OF TRYING TO GET A NEW PEDAL AT NO COST; TOLD ME "UP YOURS"; ACCUSED ME OF BEING CHILDISH; SAID THAT "YOU AND MIKE FULLER CAN SCREW YOURSELVES BLIND..."; HE THREATENED TO "TRACE AND TAKE UP PERSONALLY WITH (ME)..."; TOLD ME THAT THE REASON GUITAR PLAYER SAYS THE DIAZ STUFF IS NOISY IS "BECAUSE THEY SLEEP WITH YOU!"; SAID "MAYBE YOU WILL CATCH A.I.D.S.!"; AND THEN MADE A VEILED THREAT ABOUT SENDING ME A PACKAGE. AFTER I INFORMED HIM HE HAD BROKEN THE LAW HE GAVE A HALF HEARTED APOLOGY CLAIMING HE USES..."STEROIDS WHICH MAKE ME FLY OFF THE SPOOL ONCE IN A WHILE..". WHO NEEDS THAT? MR. FULLER KNOWS HOW TO TREAT A CUSTOMER. PERIOD.

I PLAY BLUES AND CLASSIC ROCK. THE PEDAL IS PERFECT, LOOKS REAT NEXT TO MY CHORAL FLANGE, FULLDRIVE II AND SOUL BENDER. I HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR 25 YEARS AND WOULD GET ANOTHER IF LOST OR STOLEN. I HAVE THE VOODOO LAB TREM, PEAVEY VALVEVERB, DIAZ, GUYATONE MINI TREM, BOSS TREM/PAN AND THIS IS THE BEST. THE PEAVEY AND VOODOO LAB SOUND GREAT BUT YOU ONLY GET ONE SOUND. THE DIAZ IS A POOR COUSIN TO THE SUPA TREM IN BOTH SOUND, NOISE, OPTIONS AND RELIABILITY. THE GUYATONE'S VOLUME BOOST IS ANNOYING AND THE BOSS IS GOOD FOR PANNING BETWEEN TWO AMPS.

About as many possibilities as can be had with a tremolo.The controls are fine and respond well to small adjustments.Also has a wallwart input.

Excellent sound. Freqencies are fat and rolling.Compresses a little with distortion.I use an ash tele with Bardens and a Bogner Shiva.A cool trick is to turn the mix control ALMOST off and use the pedal as a clean boost. I use this thing all nite.Best trem I ever used.

Very dependable. Used it for 2 yrs. before an incident. Sent it to Fulltone and Mike Fuller himself repaired it.

Mike not only makes some of the best pedals in the world, he stands behind them implicitly.

After playing for 16 years I know what I like. This pedal can be used in any style of music.I'd replace it with another Supa Trem if I had to.Love the 2 speed switch and corresponding LED's. It is a great effect.

Very easy to use. The Fast/Slow footswitch with an LED that flashes the speed it's set for. very cool. My only complaint (and it's a big one) would be there's no Hard/Soft LED's so you could see what mode it was in before turning the unit on.

This is one of the best (if not the best) sounding tremolos available. Even though it's a bit on the pricey side, it's totally worth it. Sounds great with all my guitars and amps, but I especially like it with my Hoffman modded Fender '59 Bassman Reissue or my Prosonic with my Hamer Sunburst Archtop or Artist Studio. Very sweet.

Very well built. I don't expect any problems.

Here's where I have a real problem. I had just purchased a Full Drive 2, '69 pedal and a Supa-Trem pedal all at the same time. This was quite an investment on my part and a statement of the appreciation I have for the sound of Fulltone pedals. I was so pleased that I intended to buy a Deja Vibe and a Clyde wah. I sent Mr. Fuller an e-mail complimenting him on his pedals and a request for the dimensions of the Deja Vibe and the Clyde wah as I was putting together a pedal board and I wanted to leave the space open for his pedals. After spending a ton of cash on 3 other pedals, I figured this wasn't too much to ask. After several weeks went by without a reply, I resent the message. It's been 3 months and still no reply. Now I know he can get my e-mails because I ordered some 3dpt switches and a adapter for my '69 pedal from him and I got them right away and an e-mail receipt. I was pretty disappointed, so much so that I decided to buy a Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe and a RMC3 wah pedal. These items were of similar or better quality than the comparable Fulltone pedals and I found that I was able to get e-mails within a day or two from their manufacturers. I will gladly give my money to whoever makes the best pedals even if the customer service is bad, but when it's a close call on the quality I'll go with the company that gives the best customer service.

If you use tremolo in your setup and you're looking for a nice warm, bulbous, organic sounding trem, this is your best bet. It doesn't get too much better than this without being built into an amp. The Fast/Slow and Hard/Soft switches are a very cool feature. The price of this unit, the poor customer service and the lack of Hard/Soft indicator LED's keep this from getting a 9.5 to 10. I would definitely buy it again if it were lost ot stolen.

Rate and depth self-explanatory. Has a hard/soft switch which is supposed to allow choice between a more Fender style trem and a more Vox style. Also has a 1/2 time switch. Throw on the dials is very good, but the time switch is not very accurate.

I own this, a Demeter Tremulator, a Diaz Tremidillo, and a Boss Trem/Pan. I would rate this just under the Demeter. It is not as vibey as the more Fenderish Demeter, though it does have a pronounced Blackface quality. It is dead silent and has true bypass (a real plus in trems, where pulsing is a problem). It is not as psychedelic as the more Brownface Tremedillo, but the Tremidillo has the worse bypass of any of the boxes, so I would rate it higher on that basis. It kills the Boss, which is only worth it for the pan + trem function.

All in all, this is my favorite Fulltone box. It does sound very neutral, as trems go, but is very controllable and quiet. If you want a deep trem (think Ry Cooder in the soundtrack of Southern Comfort), this is not your box. But if your needs are less retro, then it may be.

Mine is a very early unit (1996) and I have never had a problem.

Have not had to call, but there is a buzz that this company can be difficult to deal with.

Overall a very good box that solves the footpedal trem pulsing problem while offering a solid sound. Not as good as the Demeter, to my mind, but a good second choice.

Two knobs: Speed (Controls rate of trem), and Mix (Controls how much of the trem effect you hear). Three switches: Bypass (Turns effect on/off with true bypass), Half (Cuts rate of Tremolo in half with the switch of a foot!!! Don't have to mess with knobs!!) and Hard/Soft (Controls the depth of the trem. It goes from subtle to extreme, again with the switch of a foot. This can be tepered by the mix knob. If the mix is almost off, then the hard switch just makes it so you can hear the trem, If the mix is full on, the signal COMPLETELY Cuts!)

This Effect sounds Awesome!!! Most pedals I've owned had a sweet spot where if you bump the settings, it doen't sound good. This pedal is one GIANT sweet spot!!! Setup: Custom American Strat (Stacked single in neck pos., Duncan '59 in Bridge pos., Custom neck etc..)--> Vintage Mutron II Phasor (I just rewired it to be True bypass, and also got rid of hum!)--> Fulltone Fulldrive II--> Fulltone Supa-Trem--> Ernie Ball Mono volume--> Boss DD-5 (With Tap Tempo)--> Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 110 ALL TUBE amplifier. I am Getting the best tone of my life, and a major part of it was getting rid of my other Boss pedals and getting Fulltone stuff (BD-2, TR-2). My signal is dead quiet, and for the first time ever, if I turn everything on, I still have AWESOME tone!!!! People, I am a tone junkey!!! I don't buy anything that doesn't make my tone better, and right now, there isn't much that could help more (Except maybe a new Fulltone Fat-Boost, or Clyde Wah =-P). With my current setup, I can get any tone desirable: Blues, Rock, Hard Rock, Funk (minus Wah), ska, R&B, etc.. I have better tone than anybody I've ever heard live (Except Chad {See Below})!

Fulltone stuff is hand built, and tough as a tank! I don't even consider using a backup! Reliability is spelled F-U-L-L-T-O-N-E. However, I've only had this effect for three weeks, so I can't give it that good of a rating.

Mike has ALWAYS been friendly to me, and even took my order over the phone because my web browser can't do the whole secure thing.

If this was stolen, ... I'd... well.. I'd hunt down the miserable SOB and rip out his heart and show it to him so he could see how black it is before he dies. But, if I couldn't find him, I would do the same thing I did to get this one, and sell half of all the Guitar equipment that I own to pay for a new one. Coolest, usless effect tone tip: Turn on all of you distortion, Turn the mix, and Speed knobs full clockwise, and hit the Hard/Soft swicth. Palm mute a chord, then fade in with a volume pedal. It sounds like a helocopter is flying overhead!!! Also use whammy bar on guitar to make it sound like it's turning. Usless but cool!!

Right out of the box i scored a great sound, I also have a Fulltone Choralflange which i love so i figured id try the Supa-Trem..amazing...i bought it used so i didn't get a manual...i don't think you need it.

Amazing sounding Tremlo, I Play a American std. Strat with Lindy Frailins in it,my pedal board is: Budda Bud Wah,TS-808, ChoralFlange,Supa-Trem,Ibanez AD-9,Austone Soul-0-Stomp into a Fender Twin and it kills the built in tremlo on that amp. I love having the speed control on the Supa-trem. Very warm and musical..i got it on a Friday and had a gig Saturday night...i couldn't keep my feet off it...its that killer. It also sounded great with the Chorlflange! I could even get a Leslie type setting out of it..what a pedal...

Yeah, very reliable, no need for a back up

never had to deal with them, i talked to Mike via e-mail a couple of times.Nice guy... I wish he would build a Analog Delay!:)

I play all style's of music, Rock,Funk, to straight ahead Jazz..this pedal is great for all of that. What is it everytime i buy one of this guy's pedals..im blown away...again thanks for a great "musical" piece

Extremely easy to use. The manual takes about three minutes to look over and will answer any questions you might have. All knobs do exactly what they say they do. It is impossible to get a bad sound out of it. My only gripe is that the slow/fast switch doesn't always cut the tempo in half but that is o.k. It takes a while to get used to the foor controls but once you do, it is really sweet!

I play an 84 US Strat through a Fender Deville. The only other pedal I use is a Fulltone Fulldrive2. The pedal is not noisy at all! Plus it is true bypass so your tone isn't colored at all when the you bypass the effect. If you haven't ever played through true bypass pedals I recommend that you do. I had no idea how much my tone was suffering before I got my Fulltone stuff and I couldn't be happier. The sound quality of this pedal is amazing. All other pedals sound like crap compared to this one. There isn't that stupid ticking noise that my Boss tremelo (CRAP!) used to make (that was before my tone awakening). I really enjoy the hard shuttereing trem sounds that I can get. Ever wanted to make your guitar sound like a helicopter or a machine gun? This pedal will do it. When set slower and smoother, the pedal takes on a leslie like feel and can do great things for open chords (who needs a chorus pedal?). Highly recommended! If you are going to try it out make sure that you bring your wallet and if your on a budget, don't try any other Fulltone pedals because you'll end up buying them too! (GUILTY)

All fulltone pedals are made extremely well. I would like to have a back up (you can never be to sure) but I can't justify spending the dough.

Mike Fuller is a great guy. He is really good about returning e-mails, and enjoys answering your questions. He is also an incredible guitar player, which explains the sound quality of his pedals (he knows what guitar players want).

I play many different types of music. I play in a rock band, three different groups at the church I attend and I am also a clarinet major at the university that I attend. I am surrounded by many forms of music. This pedal will serve any trem needs in any situation. It is the best. I would buy another one if it were stolen. I only have one real complaint; I would like it if there were an LED light for the hard/soft switch. I am thinking about having Fulltone modify it for me, but it's not that big of a deal and it definetly won't effect my overall rating.