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Cusack Tap-A-Whirl

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Guitar Player
March 2008, pg. 126

Pricing

Tap-A-Whirl, V3
Red with Blue Knobs
$275 USD

Description

The Cusack Music Tap-A-Whirl, V3 is the world's first analog tremolo pedal with Tap Tempo built in. Now ALL units ship with 24 waveforms!

Here are the major features of the pedal (see the manual for more details):

  • Tap your foot twice on the tempo switch to set the tempo.
  • Choose from 24 predefined wave forms, including:
    sine, ramp, blip, bleep, square, waver, echo, and ping pong
  • Adjust the depth of the tremolo.
  • Brake: You can speed up or slow down the tempo by holding the tempo switch down.
  • Optional External Tap: Use as a Tap IN, or a Tap Out.
  • Stereo Output: Selectable by an internal jumper, change this pedal from a mono output to a stereo output.
Changes from previous versions:
  • Stereo output added.
  • Optional External Tap In, or Tap Out.
  • Bank switch moved to top.
  • Live/Preset switch moved from internal to top.

Awards


Guitar Player
March 2008, pg. 126

Guitar One
Holiday 2006

Sound Clips

Generic Clips
  • Tap-A-Whirl on and off
    The first clip demonstrates the fact that the Tap-A-Whirl has no effect on the tone of your guitar. In this brief clip, the depth is set all the way down (no tremolo), and the pedal is alternated between active and bypassed about 4 times. You will notice that you cannot hear when this happens. That is the point.

  • Tap-A-Whirl Wave Forms
    In this clip you can hear 8 wave forms from the Tap-A-Whirl. In addition, the brake function is utilized several times. Here are the details about what you are hearing:
    • 0:00 Depth 100%, Sine Wave, Various Tap Tempo adjustments.
    • 0:27 Starting to play with "Brake" function.
    • 0:48 Sine
    • 0:52 Triangle
    • 0:55 Ramp
    • 1:01 Blip
    • 1:06 Bleep
    • 1:11 Square
    • 1:16 Echo
    • 1:21 Ping Pong
    • 1:24 Brake Function with Ping Pomg
    • 1:34 Slower Echo

  • Tap-A-Whirl + Screamer
    This clip combines the Tap-A-Whirl with a Screamer Fuzz with the Fuzz and Scream knobs both set in the 12 O'Clock position. Throughout, the Brake Function is being used to speed up and slow down the tempo. The waves which are used can be heard as follows:
    • 0:00 Blip Wave
    • 0:25 Change to Square Wave
    • 0:54 Change to Echo
    • 1:04 Change to Ping Pong

Manuals

Tap-A-Whirl
Tap-A-Whirl, V3