This week’s free plugin is a tremolo which offers both amplitude modulation and autopanning. As both of these are independent of each other they can be used simultaneously with different shapes and rates, giving much more flexibility to this classic effect.
What Is Action Tremolo?
Action Tremolo creates cyclic changes in level - AKA tremolo. Not the tremolo you’d get from a ‘tremolo’ arm of a Stratocaster. Fender famously misapplied the term, using it to describe modulating pitch, which would be vibrato.
Pan modulation and standard tremolo are different sides of the same coin and rather than offering mono or stereo operation Action Tremolo offers both, completely independently and with a variety of modulation shapes, including a custom option, and a drive section for colour. Try it on guitars, pads, loops or any ear candy elements. Add a a touch of reverb and you’re there!
How Do I Get Action Tremolo?
Click the button below, provide an email address. You’ll get an email containing the download link. Action Tremolo is available as an AU, AAX and VST plugin for Windows and Mac (Intel and Apple Silicon). No iLok is required.
Julian Rodgers is Editor of Production Expert. He has a background in live sound and has been a Pro Tools user since 2001. He lives by the sea in West Cornwall where he plays piano, bass and guitar equally badly and is an avid collector of microphones and opinions about all things audio.