Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal

A classic Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal is used by Green Day guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong.

Eric Clapton uses this stompbox on songs like 'Badge' where he needs to get a little 'phasy'-sound.

"This is a regular Tremolo," remarks Dan Auerbach's guitar tech about the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

[This](http://www.guitargeek.com/audioslave-tom-morello-2004-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-diagram/) detailed gear diagram of Tom Morello's 2004 Audioslave stage setup includes a Boss TR-2 Tremelo pedal.

This photo shows a TR-2

In this photo of Jonny's pedalboard, taken in 2000, a Boss TR-2 can be seen.

Caleb Followill's guitar tech points out at 5:09 a Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal used by Caleb Followill.

At 0:52 you can see the boss tremolo in the top left next to the holy grail reverb

In this source photograph, Pat Smear's pedalboard with the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal can be seen on the floor.

In this source you can see a picture of Justin Vernon's pedalboard which this item is placed at.

According to his stills from recording of the "Magic Whip", Coxon also has the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal on his board.

According to Tweet posted by Toro, his pedalboard includes Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal.

After the Green Rhino.

At 1:31 of this private gear tour, Stephen Carpenter of [Deftones](https://equipboard.com/band/deftones) shows off some of his gear, including a Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

In this photo, which shows Sultana's performance at WFUV public radio, the Boss TR-2 can be seen on her pedalboard.

Paisley’s rig includes a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal, spotted in this video at (3:42).

"My guitars are all Fender Telecasters, and Kele and I use Fender Deluxe amps both in the studio and on stage. Pedal-wise, it’s pretty much a Boss-fest. I’ve got a TR-2 Tremolo..." (original interview [here](http://www.roland.co.uk/blog/bloc-party/))

In this video from Fearless Records, we see one of the guitarist and front-man of Pierce The Veil, Vic Fuentes, showing his touring rig. At this point in the video, he shows us the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal on the far bottom left of his rack shelf.

At 2:52 you get a clear shot of a Boss TR-2 on Courtney's pedalboard.

In this Instagram post, Nigel Hendroff's Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal can be seen on his pedalboard

It’s kind of a three-stage thing for me

At first I thought it was an Ibanez Tube Screamer(ts-9 or ts-808 like Carl Barat) but, IT'S NOT. If you take a really close look on the "Rock In Seine" gig, you can see a Boss TR-2 on Pete's side. He uses this tremolo only in "Barbarians". You can barely see the pedal on the image, but take a look on the shape and it's the only effect that Pete uses. You can see on 1:05:15 how Pete activates the effect https://vimeopro.com/sandco/sombrero-and-co-live/video/154044614

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In this picture from this post http://www.voodoolab.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4577 made by Nice Rack Canada who created this pedalboard, we can spot a Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

At 21:40 you can see the Boss pedals (BF-3, TR-2, CH-1, GE-7) he is using alongside the Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal.

Jimmie Vaughans guitar tech Mark Weber recalls that Jimmie Vaughan uses a Boss TR-2 Tremolo.

Can be seen in his pedalboard in this photo. Used in the Age of Adz tour.

"All of those are available today as reissues, although Trower has now downsized his pedal board to a Jennings or Vox wah, a Tube Works Real Tube Overdrive, a Boss Tremolo, and a Fulltone Deja Vibe."

In this photo, which comes from The National's 2010 New York concert [(source)](https://www.flickr.com/photos/theartistree/sets/72157624083105814), the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal can be seen.

Taken from ["Other Band's Stuff" Tumblr](http://otherbandsstuff.com/post/29141544767/russian-circles-8912), a Boss Tremolo can be seen at the top left corner.

Visible in Noodle's room in the Gorillaz app.

Among the other pedals listed on Music Radar's interview with Butler, this pedal is also mentioned.

Vince Gill uses this stock TR-2 Tremolo for live work (originally sources from "Vince Gill’s Touring Gear", an article from premierguitar.com).

In this diagram (formerly on guitar.com) we can see Jesse's guitar rig during a tour in support of Brand New's landmark album 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me'. In this diagram, we can see that Jesse had a Boss TR-2 on his pedalboard.

Nick has a Boss Tremolo on this board

In this Instagram post, some of Boss pedals are seen on the pedalboard. One of them is Boss TR-2, judging by the colour and the knobs.

Roland writes an article on the gear and effects Alt-J uses. In this image of Joe's pedalboard we can see the TR-2. [Source](http://www.roland.co.uk/blog/alt-j-interview/).

The item can be seen 9:32 into this video

In this video Andy Othling shows his rig including a Boss TR-2 Tremolo.

After the RV-5 is a Boss Tremolo.

"After 15 years of using exactly the same pedal board, I am finally ripping it up and starting again. Same idea, but using the @roland_us RC30 looper plus some of their great #fx pedals with beautiful big fat pads that I can trigger without even looking down! It's just the beginning, but exciting (and scary!!) to learn new gear."

Used for "extra spice", according to Premier Guitar's rig rundown.

As explained by artist

"Enter the RG-16. This midi interface has made my life a lot easier. Now if I want to go from, say, my lead channel with my NS-2 and TS-9 to my clean channel with my compressor, DD7, RV5, on and my NS-2 and TS-9 off, I just have to hit one button on my Mastermind Midi Controller. It makes my life a LOT easier and makes tone changes a breeze. The setup was pretty complex and required the building of a ton of custom cables. The cable making was easy though, thanks to the custom cable making kits that Planet Waves makes. "

At 3:25 in the video, the TR-2 can be briefly seen, out of focus and partially obscured by the DigiTech Whammy pedal.

In this photo, which shows Britt Daniel with his partially shown pedalboard, one pedal that can be seen is the Boss TR-2.

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Benjamin Booker is seen stepping on the Boss TR-2 in his pedalboard at 5:11 in this performance of "Have You Seen My Son?"

The fifth photo shows Richard Hawley's pedalboard; the rightmost pedal is a Boss TR-2.

In this Picture, we can see the Boss TR-2 on Joseph's pedalboard : https://abovegroundrealism.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/img_30472.jpg

In this photo taken in 2011 Richard can be spotted using Boss TR-2 in his pedalboard.

Taken from Casey's Instagram page — it shows a shelf of pedals which includes this one.

Joel Hoekstra Pedalboard

Used on the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour, as is visible in this photo from [this July 15, 2019 article by Entec Sound and Light](https://www.enteclive.com/portfolio-item/gorillaz/).

"I set it all on four so it's really fast and abrasive. It reminds me of the Nuggets and Pebbles boxsets of 60s underground music. They put bass and vocals through really fast tremolos. I've been digging that lately."

In this photo, which comes from the [2014 Sound on Sound article](http://www.soundonsound.com/people/horrors), Hayward's pedalboard is visible. One of the pedals included is the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal.

This is also displayed on her instagram

In this [article](http://bluesonline.weebly.com/ruben-block.html) it says that Ruben used a TR-2.

Efrim uses a Boss GE-7 and Boss TR-2. He uses a volume pedal (possibly an Ernie Ball or Morley), along with a Maestro Fuzzstain, and Boss PSM-5 power supply. If that were not enough, he also uses an unknown green colored pedal and an old Boss multi-effects unit that he only uses for distortion. We cannot forget to mention that he operates the tape deck for the monologues, and his excellent skills with a screwdriver on the guitar strings! Recently it appears that he may be using a Z.Vex Tremolo Probe & Super Hard On, as well as a Line 6 DL-4, and a vintage Mutron Phasor.

Todd also uses a JHS modded Boss Tremolo on tour. [Source](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html).

This photo, posted by Justin Lockey to Instagram, shows he uses a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal on his pedalboard. The pedal can be found in the top left corner. The photo was posted January 2014.

KIRK FLETCHER PEDALBOARD (EROS RAMAZZOTTI TOUR)

Grant uses a Boss Tremolo in his Feeder era rig.

"A lot of guys use that one. Yeah, it’s really good. And I have bunch of different tremolos, too. I have two BOSS [TR-2] tremolos."

Briggs took a more svelte approach for his pedalboard on the Coma Ecliptic tour. His stomp station includes a Boss TU-2 tuner, a Wamper Faux Tape Echo (used for a constant warbling tone), an Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synth (ideal for “Tom Sawyer”-ish bass-synth washiness), a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay, Boss TR-2 Tremolo, Boss PS-3 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay (Briggs’ favorite pedal, which he currently uses as a chorus), and a Darkglass Electronics Duality Fuzz (which replaced a Keeley-modded Ibanez Tube Screamer because the Duality has a mix knob that allows Briggs to keep a more natural tone of low-end fury)

Seen at 1:36 on Rob's Board

In this Facebook post, John Nolan shares a photo of the pedal board he is using to record Taking Back Sunday's new album.

“I got this here in the UK when I left my Strymon Flint at home, it’s just a basic Tremolo. I think people sometimes over-think these things, maybe a Boss pedal might not sound as boutique as others, but it does the job just as good as any.”

The pedal can be seen in this photo posted by Siouxsie Medley on her Instagram page. The photo was posted on 14th April, 2014.

What's On Tim Pierce's Session Pedalboard And How He Get's Sounds.

Sune Rose Wagner's pedalboard can be seen in this Facebook post, and on it, a Boss TR-2 can be seen.

John Barrett uses a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal

At 6.35 you can see Ritzy use a Boss TR-2 Tremolo She uses two Delay pedals in this video and is possibly doing some stereo effects with a split signal chain.

Pedalboard as of 2016

"Gillard plays his ‘76 Les Paul Custom through his Mesa/ Boo­gie Dual Rectifier half-stack, and uses a pedal-board loaded with a Boss TtJ-2 tuner, a Boss BD­2 Blues Driver overdrive, a Boss TR-2 tremolo, and an Ibanez CF-7 chorus/flanger." - 2001 Guitar World Interview, interview was found on the official Guided by Voices website.

In this Instagram post, Aaron references having used this a Tr-2 to record Polyamorous

Here's a rig I did for guitarist Dann Huff. My buddy Tom Bukovac has been a long time friend and go-to session man for Dann at his recording studio in Nashville. Dann noticed Tom's rigs and really liked how they sounded and wanted to get something for himself along those lines with a few changes.

picture of a gig, you can see the picture in a fotolog

Photo taken at the Astoria in Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 9th 2018.

In this image, taken from his [Premier Guitar interview](https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/29613-man-in-the-mirror-tyler-bates?page=1), many of his studio pedals are photographed. One of the pedals in this photo is Boss TR-2.

Bottom right in Gwil's pedalboard is the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

picture of JAMES HIS PEDALBOARD AT THE SHOW on the 10th of november 2018 @ Paradiso Amsterdam

fazerdazePlaying guitar for @gareththomastunes tonight at @thegoldendawntavernofpower. $5, doors 9pm ????????????????

At 3:21 we can see the Boss tremolo in Javier's pedalboard

Mr. Vincent Accardi uses the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal on his pedalboard.

Recently used on 2015 Chrissybaby Forever

At 1:48 minute mark, Boorer explains the usage of the Boss TR-2. He uses is mainly as a effect, at the end of certain songs.

the pedal can be seen in alberto's pedalboard. additional photos here http://chuckia.altervista.org/portfolio/alberto-ferrari-verdena-bloom/#

In this collection of pedals photo posted by Ekstrom on his Instagram profile, the Boss TR-2 tremolo can be seen.

The Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal is in his pedal board, as seen in this Instagram post, second pedal from the left in the bottom row.

In the pedalboard picture from this interview there is a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal there.

> **Tell us about your pedals** > >My pedalboard is always in a state of flux, but currently I’m using an Ernie Ball volume pedal for swells and a simple Boss DD-3 for delay. I also have a Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal and a Boss OC-3 Super Octave pedal, and a Fulltone OCD distortion pedal. For weird sounds, I’ll sometimes use my Electro- Harmonix Harmonic Octave Generator.

@ 0;45 in the video

Ben runs through his pedal board set up at 3:57 in the video, mentioning the Boss Tremolo

This 2009 pedalboard was designed for Lightbody by LA Sound Design. One of the pedals in his pedalboard is the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal.

This is a full list of Stereolab's live and studio equipment, circa. 2004.

"Another pedal on Kid Congo’s board is a Boss Tremolo which has been Keeley modded to compensate for the volume drop when in use. “I’ve got a Keeley modded-out Boss Tremolo, because those too would fall away when you pressed the tremolo, so now it just gets much louder.” "

An information sheet detailing El Ten Eleven's stolen gear in 2013 identifies their equipment. As they were covered by insurance, these pedals may have been replaced, perhaps even with an identical model.

According to photo provided by Tim Grime, Koppes uses Boss TR-2.

A Boss TR-2 Tremolo can be seen in the picture attached to this pedalmaniacs.com entry.

Taken from the [Rig Rundown](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23529-rig-rundown-awolnations-zach-irons) of AWOLNATION's Zach Irons. Zach has one Boss tremolo pedal, which he uses quite rarely for fun.

In this picture you can see Cimino's pedalboard, which is consisting of a tremolo pedal amongst others.

According to this website.

Pedalboard on video 31:47

In this photo with stacked up pedals, there is Boss TR-2 visible.

He can be seen with effect on his pedalboard

"I also have a Boss tremolo pedal thats really good. And thats mainly it."

"I have a Ratt pedal and an MXR Custom Comp pedal [CSP202]; Boss Reverb [RV-5] and Tremolo pedals [TR-2]; and I use a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler for a few things just so I don't have 15 other pedals on the board. But the Strymon TimeLine, oh my God. Oh man, it's just unbelievable. It can do so many things. " - excerpt from Ultimate Guitar interview.

In this live photo, Night appears to have a TR-2 with yellow knobs on her pedalboard.

Boss TR-2 at 0:45

Chris Rubey uses a Boss TR-2 Tremelo pedal, according to [this](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20659-rig-rundown-the-devil-wears-prada) Premier Guitar rig rundown.

I’m a total minimalist! With pedals, it’s the same thing as with Dorothy, where I’ve gone out and bought the nicest versions of whatever pedal you can get and I wind up going back to my old stuff every single time. For example, I bought a bunch of tremolo pedals to try to find something to replace my Boss TR-2, but I just love the Boss.

In this shot of Joseph Andreoli's pedal board, you can see a Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal.

Gustavo Santaolalla preparando todo para su gira

In a 2013 video, Mark shows a rundown of his gear beginning with his pedalboard. This pedal can be seen at the 0:14 mark.

In this photo, which shows his pedalboard built for him by XTS [(source)](http://www.xacttone.com/info/photo-gallery/tom-bukovac-studio/) one of the pedals that can be seen in his studio pedalboard is the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal.

At 2:00 in this video we can see the Boss TR-2 Tremolo Pedal third from the right.

Remote controlled by a looper

I use a chorus pedal and stuff, but my guitar tech switches that on the side, so I don’t need to think about that so much.

"I hit a buffer at the front of the pedalboard into a Paul Cochrane Timmy [distortion], which is always on. Then it goes into an MI Audio Tube Zone for high-gain stuff. After that, I’ve got my custom-made Cochrane compressor, which is a tweaked version of an old Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer. After the gain stuff, I have my Ernie Ball volume pedal and then all the usual stuff: a Boss tremolo…"

I attended this House of Love gig in person at thew Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK, October 2017.

Bortnick’s signal, “goes into standard the Boss TR 2 Tremolo, which I think are great,” he says. (19:31)

In this pedalboard photo posted by Hatherley, the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal can be seen.

In this photo from Porter's Twitter account, Boss TR-2 can be seen in Porter's pedalboard.

Greenberg didn't say much about this pedal. He only said he has one, and is visible on his board.

Pete says that he uses a Boss Tremelo in [this](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html) *Paste* magazine article.

At 0:50 minute mark, next to the Micro POG pedal, the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal is visible.

Kerrang! magazine interview.

Picture of Pedal Board pre 2011

Taken from his instagram story as of 26/03/18. Video only lasted 24hrs so had to reupload. It is seen to the left of his nano freeze pedal, on the upper section of the board.

We can see Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal on this Instagram photo. Brown regularly used TR-2 during recording her second album.

at 0:02 in the video a shot of Saint Pe's board is shown with the Boss TR-2 Tremelo.

Our Girl, The Haunt, October 2018

> I use various Gibson, PRS, and U.S. Masters guitars through two Kustom ''72 Coupe heads and a Kustom 4x12 cabinet. My processing is an old Roland GP-8, DigiTech harmonizer and a Boss SX-700 multi-effects. On the floor I have a Roland FC-100 controller, EV-5 expression pedal, **Boss tremolo**, Dunlop wah, Boss TU-12 tuner and an Ernie Ball volume pedal to bring in and out the harmonizer. When I play acoustic I use Taylors.

Blue-green pedal on top half of board

According to Instagram photo, he also uses this pedal.

At 27:22 of this video, you can see the Boss TR-2 on Dante's board.

The pedal can be seen on Jay's pedalboard in this image.

Ryan says that he uses this pedal in an interview from Gearwire.

After the Ibanez AD-9's, Benny identifies a Boss Tremolo pedal that he uses on his board.

This pedal were used on “Warhol’s song” choruses along with a lot other effects.

"I love this tremolo and add it to the sound of my blonde telecaster or my Rickenbacker 360 12 fireglow when I need to reach that Fogerty mood, A must have, even to play like the great John Fogerty".

this item can be seen at 0.24 at the beach goth party in 2012

"Chris Crisci’s Board"

Shaun plays a Gretsch Electromatic 5122 through a ‘71 Twin Reverb. His pedal board is fuller—the same tremolo but also a tube screamer, holy grail reverb, clean boost, and a delay pedal set to a quick slap back.

Lower left is the classic Boss trem

Contact Jason for the pedalboard photo.

In this Instragram photo, you can see a Boss Tremolo on his pedalboard.

Visible on Brinkerhoff's pedalboard in this live performance of Kiev's "Loot Recovered" at 2:52.

To the left of the equaliser pedal.

The item can be seen in this photo

Shown on his latest pedalboard in a collaboration with Caloncho.

This article shows that Watson had this as part of his rig.

We see this pedal between the Digiverb and the Space Echo

You can see this pedal on 14:25.

Boss TR-2 at 1:37

Seen on this picture of pedal board

Green pedal shown at 5:20

You can see the TR-2

"I used the Hagstrom, which replaced the Gibson SG I had been using for years, and the Vox Amp. The only other gear I had were pedals, all Boss: Overdrive, Tuner, Digital Delay, Compression Sustainer, and Tremolo."

From official website photo. I've seen it used live too.

We can see the Boss TR-2 in this picture : https://www.instagram.com/p/B5885kAnQTF/

Bottom right of his board

He uses Boss tremolo.

He uses that effect with Caveman.

This Instagram's pic shows the pedalboard of Claudio. The first pedal on the second line from left is a Boss TR-2 Tremolo.

In the middle of the pedalboard, three in from the right, you can see a TR-2

He uses Tremolo by Boss.

On Camella's pedal board you can see a Boss Tremolo pedal.

Boss Tremolo can be seen in this photo of his Pedalboard

Seen on Johnny's pedalboard in this collection of Photographs.

visible on board in live shows

My all time favourite pedal. This one is always on my board.

"Got it on my KOL rig! It's sounding so good!"

At 4:52 minute mark, Bunford's pedalboard is partially shown, and one of the pedals visible is the Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal.

"An Electro-Harmonix Memory Man is usually on, and I use the Boss Tremolo pedal a lot."

Originally owned by Call The Station guitarist Mauricio Rincon.

At mark [1:08](https://youtu.be/wfDJTNUrUTA=68), Tremolo appears at last on a three-pedal row.

In this setup photo posted by van Liemt on his Instagram account, the Boss TR-2 pedal is visible.

8:29 - Mentions he uses it for "Cumulo Nimbus" and "Full Regalia" with the square wave maxed out

"The ones that get swapped the most are the Boss Tremolo and Boss Mega Distortion. I only need that double gain staging for a few blasters and can almost emulate a tremolo sound with a volume knob and some delay. " [https://reverb.com/news/steve-gunns-meg-duffys-and-phil-cooks-pedalboards-illustrated-and-dicussed](http://)

on this picture, Chad Huff shows his pedalboard.

James Frost of UK band The Automatic

In this photo, which comes from Grunwald's 2017 performance in Northcote Social Club, Grunwald's pedalboard is seen. One of the pedals is the Boss TR-2 Tremolo pedal.

Any sort of tremolo and phase pedals work for me, but I use a Boss Tremolo and MXR Phase.

Image posted in SadGirl Instagram Story

Clasico tremolo de boss

Joe's pedals at La Maroquinerie in Paris (France) on Friday, 08 May 2009

Loli Molina uses the Boss TR-2

The Boss TR-2 Pedal can be seen on his pedalboard (scroll down to "Glen Hodgson / Delta Sleep").

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip has used the BOSS TR-2 Tremolo as his only tremolo pedal since 2011. The BOSS TR-2 can only be heard on “hoping for the best” on the 2012 album “Change Your Mind” and was not used on the live board in the shows in support of that album. It has been seen in his live rig as a constant on stages in the northeast since 2016 and he is known for using an EBOW with this pedal live.