Tone Tested Designs 1960's Reverb & Tremolo

The Reverb & Tremolo from Tone Tested Designs is a handmade pedal that puts two effects in one box: a reverb and a tremolo, each with its own footswitch. That means a player can turn the reverb on, the tremolo on, both together, or neither, without needing two separate pedals or a loop switcher. It lists at $185¹. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio described it as "a handmade, straightforward 2 in 1 reverb & tremolo pedal with separate footswitches."¹

What it does

The pedal covers two of the most common time-based effects on a board. The reverb side adds room and space to the signal, and the tremolo side modulates the volume, both functions covered by the reverb and tremolo effect families. Because the two effects sit in one enclosure with independent switching, the pedal takes the place of two units while keeping the ability to engage either effect on its own.¹

The name points at the sounds it is aimed at: the surf- and vintage-flavored pairing of reverb and tremolo that was common on amplifiers of that decade. Delicious Audio's writeup calls the design straightforward, suggesting a simple control layout rather than a deep menu-driven unit.¹

Notes for players

The pedal is handmade, which in practice means small-batch construction rather than a mass-produced line. Players comparing it with mass-market two-in-one units should weigh that against the independent footswitch layout, which not every combined reverb and tremolo pedal offers.¹

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