Harmonic Tremolo Shoot Out - Episode #6 - Flint, Hydra, M305, Harmonious Monk & BYOC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Today we lay the below pedals down on the table and test out their harmonic tremolo capabilities.
Strymon Flint
Keeley Hydra
Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk
Walrus Audio Monument V2
MXR M305 Tremolo
BYOC Brownface Harmonic Tremolo
Timestamps below if you want to jump around.
00:00 - Riff 1 Dry Signal
00:27 - Bypass Testing
02:45 - Riff 1 BYOC Harmonic Tremolo
03:32 - Riff 1 Keeley Hydra
04:18 - Riff 1 MXR M305 Tremolo
05:05 - Riff 1 Walrus Audio Monument V2
05:52 - Riff 1 Strymon Flint
06:37 - Riff 1 Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk
07:23 - Riff 2 Dry Signal
07:43 - Riff 2 BYOC Harmonic Tremolo
08:04 - Riff 2 Keeley Hydra
08:24 - Riff 2 MXR M305 Tremolo
08:44 - Riff 2 Walrus Audio Monument V2
09:05 - Riff 2 Strymon Flint
09:25 - Riff 2 Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk
09:46 - Riff 3 Dry Signal
09:54 - Riff 3 BYOC Harmonic Tremolo
10:02 - Riff 3 Keeley HYdra
10:09 - Riff 3 MXR M305 Tremolo
10:17 - Riff 3 Walrus Audio Monument V2 Sine Wave
10:24 - Riff 3 Strymon Flint
10:32 - Riff 3 Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Shallow Wave
10:40 - Riff 3 Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Deep Wave
10:47 - Riff 3 Walrus Audio Monument V2 Square Wave
10:55 - Riff 3 Walrus Audio Monument V2 Lump Wave
11:03 - Riff 4 Dry Signal
11:27 - Riff 4 BYOC Harmonic Tremolo
11:51 - Riff 4 Keeley Hydra
12:16 - Riff 4 MXR M305 Tremolo
12:41 - Riff 4 Walrus Audio Monument V2
13:05 - Riff 4 Strymon Flint
13:31 - Riff 4 Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk
13:56 - BYOC Harmonic Tremolo Knob Twiddling
15:36 - Keeley Hydra Tremolo Knob Twiddling
17:16 - MXR M305 Tremolo Knob Twiddling
18:56 - Walrus Audio Monument V2 Knob Twiddling
21:00 - Strymon Flint Knob Twiddling
22:40 - Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Knob Twiddling - เพลง
Check descriptions for time stamps if you want to jump around.
Thanks for posting with the time stamps. Very helpful for jumping between two pedals to make a comparison. This just confirmed that I have no need to change from the Flint I've had for about 6 years.
I liked the Keeley best, then the Flint, then the Jam pedals = all great. MXR (worst) dulls the tone. BYOC no volume adjustment is a no-go. Walrus preserved the tone but it had the most subtle effect. Great comparison. I did this in NYC, before I bought my Diamond Tremolo.
Thanks for doing this! Super helpful!
This was like the 5th video of yours I came across and I finally clicked subscribe. I usually don’t subscribe to reviewers just because they have like 100K+ sometimes. Idk how you aren’t there but I’m sure you will be soon. This is perfect
I just got the Monk mk2 - wow! Fantastic
Cool shootout!
I chose the Walrus Monument, its American made less expensive than the HM and sounds great. The Monument is very flexible and has a lot to offer. These harmonic trem peddles take some tweaking ... be ready to spend some time working with them to find the sweet spot. As for the lightness of the WM that's what I like about it... its the subtleties man !
Thank you for the great comparison this is how it should be done
All are great…The Monk!
Hard choice. Really hard. For me it's between the Hydra, Monument, and the Monk.
Excellent shootout as usual , and thank you! I had the Walrus and thought it was way to light sounding. Almost couldn't tell it was on sometimes, even with the depth all the way up. I have and love the Supro but the swoosh noise is there. I'm somewhat of a an analog guy so noise (to a certain degree) is no big. Although, I'm digging on the Jam, Flint, and the Hydra surprised me.
You will love the monk it has a lot of control from subtle to full-on attack. Thanks to the mix knob I think
I have a ’62 brown Pro. The pedal that sounded most like my amp’s tremolo was the mxr, which surprised me. All of them sounded good, though. I’d love to hear this pedal comparison through an amp like mine so that these tones can easily be compared to the real thing.
Mxr has the expression pedal option which sounds awesome. My new tremolo pedal. Great demo!
Thanks for covering the lights on the monument after 8min, I was almost going epileptic. Couldn't buy that if I wanted to. Thanks for the demo, it'll be the harmonious monk for me I think
Yea, should have had them covered the entire time, but hard to keep everything straight when you're dealing with setting up 6 pedals :D
They are all quite good. Quite a bit of variation in the end sound though of course. Some sound more reverb-y, others more chorus-y, and this would correspond to the personal visions and definitions on the theme according to the maker brought about by changes in component value and/or circuit.
The Monk takes it just in front of the flint.(Enter the guitar cliches) It's just very rich and natural sound, it's got the most depth and high fidelity without mushing out. It feels like the the orginal signal thins out somewhat with the rest, but nothing seem lost with the Monk. Very impressive sounding pedal.
Great comparison. Which one is your favorite?
I have the MXR and I do like the different modes, as well as the simplicity and the envelope feature but it does suck a bit of the high end out of my strat on any of the modes.
The BYOC Brown Face sounded great and natural!
The best Harmonic Trem is Subdecay Vagabond.
That Strymon Flint is something special
#1 Harmonious Monk v2 #2 Keeley Hydra #3 Brown Face Harmonic
Surprised by the brownface
Such good content! My only gripe is that you demo the 3 pedals I’m considering just not in any one video. Lol
Between the MXR, Monk, and Supro, which gets the closest to a univibe/Leslie SRV type throbby sound?
I’m jonesing pretty hard for a harmonic trem but I would really love it to be able to hit that mark too if possible!
Gotta say they are great. Just some features seperate them. But i did really like that clone and the JAM is great but they all work lets be real as far as youtube audio shootout.
Harmonious Monk
Who is playing the brushes?
The Monk.
LOL, was just watching the other shootout with the Harmonious monk, and you upload this one.. Excellent, again ! (if you have tweaked the internal EQ in the HM, I'd be curious of the results)
I haven't yet touched the EQ inside, I probably will play around with it sometime in the future though.
Î have a Walrus Monument, it's great and versatile but in this harmonic comparison the JAM Harmonius Monk takes the crown, at least for my ears.
I wouldn't say so.. adds medium/high freqs and has that annoying click when turning on/off...
BYOC and Jam have the most authentic, honest and natural sound.
Flint is good, but too sterile for me.
The rest of the pedals sound with shades of wah, phaser or vibe.
It's not a Harmonic Tremolo (but) Trust-me . . . You've gotta try the Diamond Analog Optical Tremolo - thick, soupy, vintage Fender-like tremolo (even better actually). It has all the functionality with: note-divisions, different-waveforms, tap tempo, random/chaos, momentary, double-time and clean-boost. oNe LovE from NYC
Oh, I've tried it, it is great! Unfortunately it sounds like Diamond is out of business :(
@@TriPedalReviews Oh No . . . don't say it. Thats terrible. They were also, a great company to do business with. Update: I just checked, and ( sadly ) it's true.
They're back in business now.
Have you checked out the Red Mountain by Swindler effects? It's a Contender
Yes I have, it'll be in future shootouts.
It sounds to me like the mxr has very weak transients. Is it just the timing? It sounds very mellow but also very indirect.
It cuts a lot of high end, which rounds out the sound.
So after all the testing you did in the several shootout videos you've made what is your conclusion. Which trem reigns supreme!?
No trem reigns supreme. Just depends on what you want in a harmonic Trem. I personally like ones that are more on the "effecty" side, which would be the Twin Peaks, Supro and Harmonious Monk. I think the Sunflower is less of that, but it has a clarity that I love so that is also in my top ones. Source Audio Ultrawave is also up there.
#1 Monk if you want the most flexible great sound, #2 byoc if you want great sound on the cheap, and #3 flint if you want great sound and the flexibility of reverb. Thanks for the demo!
I like my Keeley Dynatrem and Source Audio Vertigo. The Fender Tre Verb is basically a Flint clone and it sounds amazing in stereo with plate reverb..
The Monk takes this. I also liked the MXR, Monument and Flint.
It’s a toss up between BYOC and Keeley for me! I think the Brownface sounds a bit better overall with its wider sweep, but stereo panning and the reverb combo on Hydra would probably take the W. I do wish it had wave-shaping options tho! Literally my only complaint
I have the Hydra so I'm a bit biased but it is a really great pedal. The stereo options are really useful. I have been use both the panning and trem just on one channel with the same pedal. I do agree that Hydra really needs wave shaping options. And more presets! Too many sounds are my favorite to limit to just 4 presets!
You can’t have a harmonic trem shootout without a Supro. Great comparison’s though
Hang about, I’ve just noticed you’ve included the Supro in a more recent vid ✊
Yea, I have several with the Supro :)
I now have Monk but after this video all i can say is selling MXR was a big, stupid mistake for me, it sounds the best to my ears.
Hydra for me. But the brown face was phukking good.. Really good. Just not as versatile. It does one thing really good. The Hydra does it for me. MXR was surprisingly very pleasant and organic. Stymon is highly over rated in my opinion. Especially the price.
MXR
The HYDRA is NO.1 and wins by FAR ;-) !!!!
Compare it directly to the Flint and get back to us
@@shckltnebay Still the same: the Hydra = NO.1 !! 🤩
I'm currently A/B/C-ing the Hydra, Flint, and Fender Tre-Verb.
Personally, I don't really like any of the reverbs in the Hydra, but the Hydra's true stereo panning is incredible through a stereo rig.
The Fender has the best spring reverb but doesn't pan the trem... just adds trem equally to both L & R channels.
The Flint has nice trem (not stereo-panned) and nice reverb if the color (tone) is dialed all the way down.
Despite having the worst reverb of the three in my opinion, the stereo panning of the tremolo in the Hydra really is incredible.
Monk. By far.