Guyatone VT-2 Vintage Tremolo

Very easy to good to easy to use- no need for a manual. It's a tremolo...

Ok for tremolo sounds but there is one thing that I couldn't get past- there is a largish volume spike when you press thhe footswitch to engage it. Last about a squillionth of a second then vanishes but I just couldn't tolerate that. I took it to the local guitar guy and he said it wasn't faulty and that it was a just a cheaply designed pedal. Not good enough. Otherwise, everything perfect.

Seemed dependable. Lots of people knock plastic pedals but I've never found them to be less reliable than a Boss.

Ok. Useful website.

I use Fender USA Lead 1 into a bunch of other pedals (Boss: DS-1 Silver Screw, AW-2, BF-2, PH-1r; Tech21 XXL; ElectroHarmonix: Big Muff, BassBalls; MXR: stereo chorus, 70s 10-band eq and MicroAmp and volume pedal. All double amped into a Fender USA Super 210 tube combo and a Vox CAmbridge 30r. We play indie pop, and I need a decent trem pedal.

Cutest pedal of the year, but I couldn't get past that volume spike. I sold it after a week and bought an even cheaper pedal- the Danolectro Tuna Melt, which I'm very happy with.

power on, signal in, adjust rate and depth knobs to your liking, stomp, and then the signal goes out.

I am just picking a random low number.

This thing HUMS when it is on. It's a pretty noisy pedal. Also, it drops your signal when you punch in and out. Tob it off with a pretty huge volume boost, and well, it's craptastic.

its got a weird rubber grip widget holding the thing together and after the ten or so years this thig has been around, the rubber looks like it could snap. Plus the knobs crackle if too much lateral pressure is applied. Couple that with plastic jacks, and it is a wonder this thing is still kicking.

Bonus points awarded for not being dead yet.

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it was cheap, and it was an impulse buy. As far as impulse buys go, I am happy with it. It works and makes my guitar go BA na na na na na na na as advertised.

Aside from that though, I can't really recommend it.

Two knobs; depth wich regulates the intesity of the effect ans rate wich regulates the speed. Deadeasy to get good sounds out of it.

Let me start with the lesser thing; it has got no real bypass switching and it does colour your sound very heavely with eather effect on or off.
Now for me this is why I like it. When I use it in front of my Marschall tsl 100, this thing makes the clean channel with mid boost on sound fender twin-ish.
It defenitly makes your sound more treble orientated; takes away bass (quit a lot) and overal thinner sounding. Now I don't mean worse sounding, just different.(changes a bass orientated marshall into a fender like amp).
I use it as well when I play les paul style guitars to enhance the single(split)coils. Now the effect itself to me is briljant, from painstrikingly slow up to vibrato-drrrrr.
With the depth knob you can easely go from almost unhearable but very enhancing-deepening tremelo to classic vintage (fender)amp-build-in tremelo.
I use it a lot in very delayed soundscape sounds to deepen the sound extensivly with the rate so slow you don't hear it if you don't pay attention, and the depth at 10 o' clock. God it ads that extra dimension to your sound. Same deal behind a chorus and you seem to play trough a chorus orchestra.
It is a vintage chorus though, square waves ans chopper style tremelo are not in this box.
No more drop in volume when activated than with my hohner tremelo build in amps. Remember activating tremelo always gives you the impression you loose volume but that is not true. It is the nature of the effect, better learn to live with it.

It's a real micro-effect but seems pretty tough to me.
I woud advice the use of an adapter because the battery has no seperate compartiment, this to avoid print damage with leaking batteries.
This unit has got the most smooth operating heavy duty style footswitch I ever came across!!!!! I actually mailed the company to try to figure out how to get hold of them to equipe my Electro-Harmonics gear with.
Yes,I dare to use it without backup.

Don't know. Mailed them last week for info and haven't recieved anything yet, let's wait a few days more.

I also use Hohner orgaphone MH-41H amps, they are real old and got the most beautifull and versitily tremelo I know.
But for my Marshall I depent on this matchboxsize-tremelo and it realy sounds like a tube driven build in tremelo. Dunno about other pedals, read a lot about the tube powered Gyatone tremelo, it seems to be the Holy Grail of tremelo but for me this one will do.

Two knobs, allright? Speed and depth. Just enough. The manual contains some useful info on how not to damage it.

OK, here we go: a HB-equipped guitar (Gibson LP Studio, Hawk, or a custom bolt-on) to this to Dano Pepperoni to Marshall Jackhammer to Laney LC-15. Nice gentle tremolo (not a "helicopter style chop" as they say in GP) that adds a little grit. No noise to talk of. When the battery is going bad, it gets more overdrive and less volume (just as any other pedal I guess). Bought it to approximate the tremoloed guitar sounds on Tom Waits' records and that wacky Twin Peaks sound, and it delivers - I can approximate the sounds, not replicate them. But that's not the fault of the pedal. Obviously the effect gets a little less pronounced when using it along with the Jack's overdrive (the more gain, the weaker the trem). My only gripe is that the action of the Speed pot could be more even. I use it set between approx. 1 and 3 o'clock. Below that, it is too indistinct, and above that, it is too fast for my purposes. One point minus.

Been stomping on it heavily since 1997 or 1998, and it still works fine. You can definitely depend on it and use it without a backup as I do. No gripes whatsoever. Just don't drop it in your beer, mind you!

I tried to get another product from their line, but they don't have a dealer here and the suggested online shop wrote they don't deliver to my country. Guess Czech Rep is not a market attractive enough for them:-( I am now trying to get the Wah Rocker through a friend in Germany, so let's see what will happen.

Very good sound, small size and weight. Might look a little fragile to some, but it's actually durable enough. If I lost it, I probably would face problems getting another one - see the "Customer Support" section - and also, they seem not to manufacture it any longer - the current type code is VT-3. (But I think it is the same thing). So I'd probably go for Dano's mini trem or try something different.
All in all, it's a sweet little pedal, and for a time it was the only fx device I used (well, along with my guitar's volume knob) and it worked perfectly, so if I were to keep just a single pedal, this would be it.