Source Audio releases Mission of Burma Vertigo Tremolo with Roger Miller

September 7, 2023 · 2 sources

Source Audio released a limited edition of its Vertigo Tremolo in collaboration with Mission of Burma's Roger Miller, sold exclusively at The Music Emporium¹. The pedal is priced at $249².

Miller worked with Source Audio's engineers to recreate a mode voiced after his Vacu-Trem, a one-of-a-kind tremolo pedal custom made for him in the early 1980s by Lou Giordano, then an engineer and record producer at Fort Apache Studios in Boston¹². The Vacu-Trem had a hard chopping wave shape and a tremolo speed well beyond that of standard amplifier tremolos². The case carries the cover graphics of Mission of Burma's album "Vs."¹.

The layout keeps the original's knobs for Depth, Speed, Shape and Level, and adds three tremolo modes¹:

A second bank of presets is reached by bypassing the pedal and holding the footswitch for about 8 seconds until the center LED turns from red to green; the bank holds presets named "Rotationary RCM," "UFO RCM" and "Shifted RCM"¹. Like recent Source Audio pedals, the Vertigo can be edited through the company's free Neuro app¹.

Eliot Hunt of The Music Emporium said the shop was excited to be part of the project, calling it a capture of Boston's music community². Source Audio, The Music Emporium and Mission of Burma are all based in the Boston area¹.