Finally a concise and coherent explanation of the difference between a Tremolo and Vibrato. Bravo! And now I also understand why I've been confusing them for years. I own Fender products! Just when I thought I had them figured out, my guitars and amps confused me again.

So, who then called it a "whammy bar"? Great video. Love these nerdy dives into history and words. More please!

Thank you for the best explanation and demonstration of the difference between tremolo and vibrato that I have read or heard.

Leo had Andy digging up old archives just so we know the facts,, great show 👍👏

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I really enjoyed this.

I learned Tremolo from a book I was reading. The Mother & young Daughter, used Tremolo as the Safe Word for ICE. So the Child knew not to go with anyone if that Word wasn't said. So I had to Google & found you. You were very interesting, that I watched the whole thing. I don't play Guitar, but now I know that Word & learned another, Vibrato. I hope to retain this, so I can through it out to my Peeps. Also get it right if it comes up as a Jeopardy Clue. Thank you for informing in a nice interesting way again.

I would like more of this type. Thanks for the info.

Great video! Love them both!

Thanks for this Andy, actually learned a couple of things! Cheers

Super interesting. Thx for the history lesson! 🎸🤟🏻

This was a fun video. Please do more.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Garry! Will do. Anything I can do for you?

Witty, funny and informative.... brilliant video!

Those old Fender amps with the tremolo labeled as vibrato have really messed me up for life. Way to go Leo

Great answer to all my questions I rabbit holed looking for today!!! To your ending that was more of an invitation to the other topics around the causals of forced ambiguity of the terms we have to interpret today...both idioms and idiosyncrasies thanks to the ongoing conflictions....I offer the use of tremolo technique (original term with fingers) which is clearly not bending notes or making volume of same pitch notes oscillate but repeatedly plucking instead of sustaining them, and (newer but well used term with pick) tremolo picking, the shredding technique of fast alternate picking on the same note or power chord... Two very different techniques and effects and neither relate to volume oscillation really...

A very informative and educational video. Both Fender and Kauffman erred and made things rather confusing for players.

I have a '68 Fender Custom Deluxe Reverb Reissue and Im still not sure whether the vibrato is actually vibrato or tremolo. This is a great video either way. 👏🏻

Outstanding! 😎🎸☮️

Great great video....and funny too. Thanks

Here's an idea: what are the effects of different scale length? I'm not really talking baritone and extend scale lengths, but maybe jaguar, strat, and SG, for example. Different string tensions when tuned to concert pitch, different fret spacing, different timbre - all interesting and reasonably unexplored, on KZread.

This is hilarious. I love it. 😄

Thanks Andy. Very informative.

In this example I prefer the sound of the tremolo. However, my favorite would be the vibrato in the Fender Brownface amps and the Magnatone stereo amps.

I already knew the difference but a good video and explanation. You said "it seems that one man's mistake about 100 years ago has echoes through guitar history". Are sure that's not reverb? Probably not but it's a possible subject for a video.

I would very much like more videos like this! Also, I shall henceforth refer to those as "wobble" pedals...

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Don! I will get the next ones planned then

Great video mate. I’d love to watch more like this and I have a question? Why is a nut on a guitar called a nut when it is neither shaped like a nut that requires a bolt and isn’t nutty in either taste of texture? I’m off to play play my Ibanez now. It has a locking vibrios system you know! 😁😁😁

How about a video on different types of strings - flat vs roundwound, different materials and their impact on the sound coming out of your amp?

@christopherlewis1847

2 жыл бұрын

The effects of different string gauges as well

The Vibrato pedal in the first example sounds like it also has Tremolo. Maybe internally it adds it?

I blame Leo Fender, for sure.

@Briansgate

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@marc_leblanc

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Chrissie Hynde got the memo from Leo Fender and her singing vibrato is actually tremolo. And it’s awesome!!

Please could you tell me why Fender's patent's dated "Aug.30th., 1954", but it also shows "1956" in the top left-hand corner. I enjoyed your, I think unintentional, pun of the word "Echo". You made it very easy to understand for someone like ne who loves various (retro, '50's, '60's), guitar sounds: but can't play ! Are you university educated, please ? Best regards. Thanks very much.

Well that got real forensic real quick

best description, stupid how you only have 3000 views smh

That seems backwards to me because the trem on the guitar changes pitch when you move it.

1:00 no way I just got Creeped 😢

Can u make a video describing which effects can closely approximate a faux leslie sound?(vibe,phaser,trichorus), kinda defeats the purpose of a leslie speaker emulator I know but also curious

@PooNinja

2 жыл бұрын

It’s doppleriffic

It's because the wiggle stick on a guitar gets called a tremolo. Even though it's a vribrato. Yes definitely do more, also that "Tremolo" picking 😂 (Yes I know it's a valid technique that's not what I'm laughing at)

Totally laugh out loud moment about Doc Kaufman vs his "Vibrola for Tremelo effects" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wished Fender kept their mistake with the Tre-Verb pedal Vibrato + Reverb :P

Vibrato is like when I'm stoned Tremolo is like when I'm completely pissed

That's why Henning Pauly calls it the wiggly stick, right Kris?

70S ROCK AND BLUE USE TREMOLO ALOT

Tommy James and the Shondells made the tremolo popular. On vocals,too! #crimsonandclover

@ionjohnny

2 жыл бұрын

But was he just trying to copy Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man vibrato?

@umbertoyltp

2 жыл бұрын

@@ionjohnny Donovan had more of a vocal natural tremolo, just like Ian Anderson did on some occasions.

Build a Tremato pedal and cut out the confusion !

It's funny that everyone talks about vibrato as giving a seasick feeling. Tremolo gives me vertigo. Vibrato is fine for me, but I don't like it much. Phaser is my jam.

Well ... its Leo Fender who is to blame ... (;-) ... Oh!? ... i just learned something ... me do know the "frying pan" but i never came across this patend. So thanks a lot!

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Watch the video

They sure did make the two terms confusing for guitarists 😂

Volume or pitch you choose the flavor of ya wobbles

I thought this was going to make it more clear to me but I'm more confused than ever

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry.

@JaniceLalla

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek it's ok

Tremolo = Amplitude Modulation. Vibrato = Frequency Modulation. I blame Leo for the confusion. A whammy bar on a guitar is a mechanical vibrato device, despite what Leo called it. A volume pedal used up & down is a tremolo effect.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

You should probably watch the video

@OzziePete1

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek I did! You suggested Kauffmann caused the confusion and Leo doubled down when he added the 'vibrato' effect to the amplifiers.

trem/vib = am/fm. Got it.

I will have to say I tend to prefer Tremolo, I think?? 😅

As others said, its because of decades of Leo Fender. (Edit) I mean, Doc Kauffman, of course! In all seriousness, Doc may have been the official guilty party, but Leo is the guy we all know.

Leo Fender didn't make a mistake. That's a fact. It was called the wrong thing on purpose and he knew it was wrong. Fender called it a tremolo because someone else was already calling theirs vibration but he still needed a name for it. LEO DID IT ON PURPOSE. He didn't get it wrong. He was trying to differentiate his stuff from someone else's. It was not a mistake.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

This is interesting! What’s your source?

🤣😂😎🎙🎸✅

Boulevard of Broken Dreams vs. Peaches, simple.

... and why can't this be corrected... an even better question... why hasn't it been corrected YEARS ago! Yeah, I don't know either.

I think you might be wrong😉 You say it has echoed for about a hundred years, but it might have been reverberating.🤨 Who can say?🤔

I'd imagine when they implemented the tremolo on the amps they realised it would confuse people having both a tremolo arm and a tremolo setting so they thought fuck it let's just call that one vibrato and hope nobody notices :)

Vibrato was nature's first attempt at pitch correction.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

The note is in there somewhere!

@aprilkurtz1589

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek Yes indeedy.

than i won't bother to get these's pedal's than i will just use the fender ampifer instead

I prefer Trem.

The tremolo bar of strat-style guitars should be called vibrato bar!!!

Ok, a tremelo pedal controles the volume. A tremelo arm on the guitar controles the vibrato… So, the tremelo arm should be called a vibrato(r) arm. Am I right?

@gojero732

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, the answer comes at 3:05! I am certainly right.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

you got it!

It doesnt help that everyone calls a "whammy" bar and its technically called a tremolo arm even though it is a vibrato arm i guess since it changes pitch not volume....its really annoying...ope ur talking about it rn....welp

Leo got it right the first time... uh, okay... maybe not in this case.

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaa, well...

Let us still remember, that C. Leo Fender was the greatest genius in the history of the electric guitar! He was a developer of pick-ups, amplifiers, and even guitars. He was all of that! Leo Fender was the John Moses Browning of electric guitars! And his products killed way less people than the products of Mr. Browning! (I'm pretty sure at least one person had been beaten to death with a Stratocaster or a Telecaster.)

So, the vibraphone should actually be called a tremophone.

Oh, Andy! You missed the opportunity to make things even more confusing. "Tremolo" is - first and foremost - a guitar playing technique!

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Rewatch the end

@komputerkaput1757

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheGuitarGeek Ah, of course!

Let's just call it vibmolo :)

@TheGuitarGeek

2 жыл бұрын

Clarity confirmed!

It's pretty simple... just ask an American which is which and assume that the opposite of what he tells you is correct. This applies to literally every fact in the universe.

Cognitive dissonance averted. That was very very necessary. Thank you!