Source Audio has teamed up with The Music Emporium, a premier music shop in Lexington, MA, to release a limited-edition pedal honoring the legendary Boston band Mission of Burma.
The pedal is a special version of Source Audio’s Vertigo Tremolo featuring graphics from the cover art of MoB’s iconic post-punk masterpiece, VS. It includes 6 unique tremolo effects designed by Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Miller.
Three tremolo effects on this special edition Vertigo match the guitar tones from the Mission of Burma songs, “Tremelo,” “Secrets,” and “Trem Two.” The tremolo sound on these recordings came from a custom, one-of-a-kind tremolo pedal built exclusively for Roger Miller by Lou Giordano.
Giordano was an MIT educated electrical engineer and record producer/engineer at Fort Apache Studios in Boston, MA during the 80s. He worked with a wide range of bands including, Husker Du, Sugar, Goo Goo Dolls, and Taking Back Sunday. Miller explains, “While in Mission of Burma, Lou Giordano made me a custom tremolo pedal which made the extreme ‘Trem Two’ pulse possible. Until I was introduced to the Vertigo, I had not been able to recreate that sound in any other device.”
Miller has been using the Source Audio Vertigo Tremolo along with their Nemesis Delay and Kingmaker Fuzz for close to 5 years. All the sounds in the special edition Vertigo have been modified using Source Audio’s Neuro Desktop editing capabilities to replicate the sound of the original Giordano engineered tremolo pedal.
With a street price of $249 USD, the pedal is available exclusively on The Music Emporium website, and in their store.
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