JAM Pedals releases Harmonious Monk Mk.2 tremolo pedal

April 1, 2023 · 3 sources

JAM Pedals released the Harmonious Monk Mk.2, an all-analog harmonic and amplitude tremolo created with That Pedal Show, in April 2023¹². That Pedal Show described it as building on its award-winning collaboration with the maker, retaining the original's all-analog circuitry and adding features for guitar, keys and other instruments².

The pedal has two tremolo voices. Harmonic mode creates what the maker calls rich, phase-like movement, and Amplitude mode provides traditional volume modulation¹. Three LFO shapes are selectable: square, sine and reverse-sawtooth¹². In Amplitude mode with square wave selected, turning Depth fully clockwise activates a kill-dry CHOP for alternating sound and silence¹. Depth sets intensity, Speed sets rate, Level controls output and Mix blends dry and wet signals¹.

Tap & Ramp mode is the headline addition, according to That Pedal Show. Tapping the right footswitch sets tempo; holding it ramps from the current rate to a second speed, with Speed setting the destination and Depth the travel time¹². Legacy mode preserves the original pedal's speed-multiplication workflow, with x2 or x1.5 chosen by holding TAP until two or three confirmation blinks¹. Internal Treble, Midrange and Bass trimmers shape the effected signal, and a fourth trimmer adjusts wet-path input gain¹². The default startup state is off¹.

Specifications, as listed by the maker¹:

No US list price was given in the published material.

In a review for Premier Guitar, the writer called Tap and ramp in one button "probably the coolest" of the new features and said the pedal was "after a short time, quite intuitive to use"³.