Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk Mk2 Tremolo

V2 of the Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk gets deeper with more harmonics and amplitude in a brilliant tremolo pedal. So what’s new in this award winning (Vintage Guitar Approved Gear) beautiful enclosure… Let’s start with the brilliant useful TAP tempo, what more do we need to say, you still get speed control via the knob too.

Then there’s the new Ramp function (holding the TAP switch will ramp to a second speed. You can determine the second speed, as well as the rate of the ramp between the two tremolo speeds). We love this feature, it’s nothing short of brilliant.

There’s also a second mode of operation within called the Legacy mode which retains and expands on the mk.1’s functionality since now you can choose to have x2 (double) or x1.5 (dotted eighth) speed multiplying options! Yep, flexibility and creativity is the name of the game. An instantaneous press of the TAP footswitch will engage and disengage the speed multiplying function.

Jam have added a new LFO waveform that we love called Reverse Sawtooth. And there’s a CHOP (kill dry) function too, which effectively alternates between sound and complete silence. Again, these are great features that give us more creativity in our hands, but we love that none of this is buried or hard to use or find.

Going inside the fantastic exterior, in addition to the mk.1’s 3 internal EQ trimmers, the mk.2 features a new internal trimmer to adjust input gain control to optimise Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk mk.2 for use with guitar, bass, keys, or anything else you might want to throw at it! This is why we love Jam Pedals.

And finally, you can now specify the startup state of the mk.2, to ON or OFF upon receiving power! Something that does bug me on a few other vibratos out there.