Stomp Box Basics: Tremolo and Fuzz
Simple guitar effects circuits you can build.
STOMP BOX 1.0: Harry DeArmond’s electromechanical tremolo generator, well over 50 years old.
Photograph by Dan Formosa
Back in the day when guitar players marched around in frilly white shirts and high-heeled boots while strumming flamenco riffs, Harry DeArmond changed the path of popular music. He marketed the first successful electric pickup, so that guitar sounds could be piped through an amplifier.
Ten years later, as if amplification weren’t radical enough, DeArmond jump-started the concept of sound mods by selling the first stomp box. Actually ...
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