Gamechanger Audio Bigsby Pedal: Hands-free Polyphonic Expression 

Why mount a Bigsby Tremolo to your guitar when you can have one underfoot? Is this the new way to Bigsby? Let us know in the comments, and shop the Gamechanger Audio Bigsby pedal at Sweetwater 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/GamechangerAudioBigsbyPedal

This is genius! and your guitar won't go out of tune from using it!

The fact that it “floats notes” up AND down is worth the praise !!!!!!!

That’s fantastic for us Tele players !!!!

So 70 years later, there's finally a Bigsby that won't throw your guitar helplessly out of tune. Nice.

I am not a bigsby guy at all but im impressed with how natural this sounds. Whammy pedals usually sound awful.

Cool concept, there’s a big market to be had in just this area. Add dive bombs, B bender, tuner, presets etc

Ypu can also use it as a chorus pedal by blending the auto vibrato with clean signal. It’s an incredibly versatile pedal. I’ve had one for 18 months pr so now and still love it - there is no other pedal on the market that does all this and with an intuitive analog /manual interface.

Having just received a Revstar Standard with P90s, this will be my next purchase. Stellar upload. This channel is going to be expensive to watch. Subbed.

So cool. I love their plus+ pedal. They make a nice product.

I wish they’d have a less expensive version or a mini pedal. This would be in every guitarist’s home if they could find a way to bring the cost down to half - or even $99. It can still look the part and have core functions without all the bells and whistles. I hope the company will see my comments and figure out a way. I’m sure others have said the same too.

This is absolutely a game changer.

Brilliant. Gotta have one ….and put it on my vocals and electronic drum set.

I love that pedal I didn't know they made something like that. Now l can buy hard tails guitars I instead of having to worry about getting something with a tremolo and worry about it staying in tune. That pedal could be used with a les paul or anything I love it.

OK, the inclusion of the expression out seals the deal. I’ve been looking for a good spring loaded expression pedal for a while.

If you grease the nut slots, use a Luthiers knot at the string posts, debur the saddles or install roller saddles and smoothly stretch the strings a regular tremolo should stay in tune.

I don’t usually care about pedals at all, but I love this!

When I first saw this foot-operated Bigsby, like so many I was impressed. Alright, it doesn't change the strings themselves as does a pedal steel guitar, but it does electronically simulate the sound of the strings going flat or sharpening or a vibrato effect. Well, we've come pretty far along with this kind of technology as this otherwise excellent unit well shows. With practice and skill, it might sound somewhat authentic in some circumstances, although I have not heard it perform so in the demo vids. It sounds very synthesized to me which differentiates it from the sound of a real Bigsby in a fundamental way. Even putting that aside, I was still in some doubt about it. Then it struck me and I realized why I likely wouldn't get one of these, as brilliant and innovative as it is. Two reasons: One - When we use a vibrato arm on a Strat, Jazzmaster or any guitar with a Bigsby, when we shake, dip or pull on the arm, it's an organic motion that occurs as we are playing, similar to applying a bend or finger vibrato. We don't even think about it most or any of the time because it's so much a part of our playing. We operate a vibrato arm with our picking hand or fingertips while the other hand is fretting the notes. It seems all of one thing. When we apply vibrato, it feels like we’re doing it, it sounds like we’re doing it, and by Zeus, we ARE doing it as an integral part of our playing, seamlessly and effortlessly. Now, when we push on a pedal to create a variable effect (not just on or off), no matter how nicely it has been designed, it’s another thing entirely. I know, acoustic piano players, after much instruction and practice learn to use the sustain, sostenuto and soft pedals in sync with their hands. Also, many guitarists use a volume pedal (myself included) to good effect. Still, none of those pedals change a note’s pitch as does a Bigsby or other vibrato device. Even on a keyboard, the pitch control is a wheel that is operated with the left hand. It’s not a natural thing for us to use our feet to make such a fundamental change as pitch, and a device that does so adds something extra to think about, a distraction if you will, while when we do it with our picking hand it seems far more natural and organic. Perhaps an analogous example is that many guitarists feel uncomfortable using a wah pedal to any large extent while playing, thus the emergence of auto wahs. Two - With apologies to a very few great drummers who have mastered their kit’s foot pedals to an extraordinary degree, for the rest of us and for many physiological reasons, our feet do not operate as fluidly and as subtly as our hands and fingers. From our earliest history, our feet have an entirely different, highly-specialised job to do. Accordingly, they and that part of our brain that controls them have not developed the ability to do fine, fluid movement. Such has never been necessary for our survival and development. Making a note or chord just barely shimmer with an almost inaudible but expressive musical vibrato is not hard to do with the hand or fingers, but I doubt that many if any, could do it with their foot. Also, the way this pedal is designed we have to stand on it to produce a vibrato that subtly goes both up and down melodically. That is something that a foot would find very difficult or impossible to do. However, this is no problem at all when we do it with our hands and/or fingers. Sure, if a dramatic dive-bomb is desired, this unit will supply it as well as the hand, better perhaps in that it leaves the hand free. But that is my point, I don’t want to divorce or separate my hand and fingers from my playing. For me at least, a vibrato unit on a guitar is a very subtle thing and I like to use it sparingly, expressively and musically as I see fit. I don’t think that a foot-controlled unit can do that, at least not with my foot, and so it’s not for me. P.S. I mean no disrespect or unkindness toward those involved in designing, developing and building this pedal. As it is, it’s a brilliant and innovative piece of engineering and construction, and I applaud it and them on that level. I wish them well, and if any guitarist finds it useful, I say more power to them. I hope they sell thousands of them.

The surfmusic pedal wow!

Dang… that is a cool pedal. A little pricey for me, but cool as heck.

Nice for hard tails! Looks pretty sweet.

I'm getting one primarily for a 1959 Silvertone lap steel that I will not drill holes in to add a bender.

Need a B Bender version

I guess most people put on a Bigsby because of its iconic look, which is a bit lost on a pedal. Maybe they need to make a Virtual Jeff Pro that looks like a Bigsby. The latter also abslutely nails the pitch shifting to sound natural imho.

Love game changer!

finally! a solution for my PRS McCarty 594 SE!

End of strings out of tune? Sharp looking pedal. Sounds realistic to me. Definitely a cool addition to the pedal collection.

That's kewl af 😊 I want one ❤

Amazing André SA

Something else on wish list😎😎😎

I love this idea!!! Can it also be used on keyboards???

But can it do rippin dive bombs

I wish you guys would make plugins....... Por dios

I want to get one of these..

Carve this in to my solid body fender… hahaha

Would love to win this for my P&W rig... hope I win, 🤞

Dam that's cool!

I am acoustics all the way. But, any information on new products is a game-changer!

Great review as usual! Does this pedal have any noticeable latency issue?

is there ergonomic reason behind the design of the step?

So this went up on youtube on 22 April, but did it take 21 days to like upload and render? You get what I'm asking, right?

Since its polyphonic, would have been great to be able to change your base tuning like the DigiTech drop

Nice... Could it work even with keyboards? ( Moog, Nord Electro rtc. ) Thankyou

I suppose I could bolt it onto the front of my guitar. Or the back.

Looking to buy.

🙂🙂🙂

Virtual Jeff Pro .. for me ..

How does it sound with bass?

So basically it's spring loaded Whammy. How smart ))))))

Build one into a guitar ha ha.

Opening 20s or so didn't sound natural. The 1st second the pedal is engaged didn't sound right. It was like an artificial imitation of the real thing.

Nothing exciting about this pedal, it sounds like a whammy

But ya can't go up and down in pitch easily.

500 $ for this?

it sends a digital signal... digital