HeadRush Tremolo

The HeadRush Tremolo is a tremolo stompbox, a pedal that raises and lowers the volume of your signal at a set speed to produce the pulsing, wave-like effect heard on countless recordings. HeadRush describes the circuit as "Based on a Boss® TR-2," putting it in the lineage of one of the most widely used compact tremolo pedals¹. For a player, that means a familiar approach to the effect: a dedicated tremolo box rather than one mode buried in a multi-effects unit. If you are new to the effect, the tremolo pedals page explains how the effect works and how it differs from neighbors like vibrato and phaser.

What it does

Tremolo works by modulating the volume of your guitar signal, so the pedal sits naturally at the end of a chain alongside time-based effects like delay and reverb. HeadRush positions the Tremolo in its stompbox range as a single-effect unit in the tremolo category¹.

Because the circuit is based on the Boss TR-2, the pedal follows the design of that long-established compact tremolo, which uses a low-frequency oscillator to shape the volume of the signal¹.