Footloose Effects Brundlefly vs JHS Tidewater Tremolo
The Footloose Effects Brundlefly and the JHS Tidewater Tremolo are both pedals sharing modulated. The Footloose Effects Brundlefly leans transparent. The JHS Tidewater Tremolo leans spring. Current prices: $165 vs $148.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.41% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- modulated
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$165via Reverb
$148via Reverb
Footloose Effects built the Brundlefly as a combination dirty tremolo and filter pedal, its name a nod to the hybrid creature from the film The Fly, fitting for a circuit designed to blend two effect types into one genuinely mutated sound rather than keeping tremolo and filtering as cleanly separate functions. The dirty element suggests the tremolo circuit itself carries some grit or saturation character rather than staying purely clean, giving it a rougher, more textured pulse than a standard transparent tremolo, while the filter component adds further tonal shaping on top of that modulated base.
The JHS Tidewater is a compact optical tremolo pedal that faithfully recreates the warm, vintage amp tremolo character of classic tube amplifiers. Three controls — Volume (output level), Mix (tremolo depth from none to fully wet), and Speed (rate of oscillation) — are complemented by an LED indicator that pulses in sync with the tremolo speed. The Tidewater produces smooth, musical amplitude modulation without the hard-edged choppy character of square-wave tremolo designs. True bypass.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Experimental
- Blues
- Country
- Classic Rock
- transparent
- spring