Motander Guitars Zorine feat. Remora Electro-Trem | Lean, Mean & Loaded with Touch Tremolo!
Today I am delighted to welcome Motander Guitars to the channel, featuring Justin's Zorine model, with the Remora Electro-Trem.
🎸 Motander Guitars: https://www.motanderguitars.com
🎸 Zorine model: https://www.motanderguitars.com/models/zorine
🎸 Remora Electro-Trem: https://www.motanderguitars.com/models/remora-electro-trem
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The @motanderguitars4504 Motander Guitars Zorine is a double-cut beast built to ride the line between two very different eras. Its maker calls it a version of his Berto model, in mirror image, a body reworked into something leaner and meaner. It's an 80s ripper one moment, then slips into a Japanese-catalog 60s vibe the next. The name honors Queen Zorine of Zoro Gardens, the nudist colony that ran in Balboa Park through the 1930s, and that kind of naming tells you everything about how Motander thinks: history, place, and mischief in equal parts.
The body is basswood with a German carve, a sculpted contour that catches light along every edge. A three-piece cherry neck runs into an Osage Orange board dotted with synthetic opal, warm woods against cold shimmer. Forney supplies the bridge, the knobs, and the jack plate, tying the hardware into one cohesive visual language. Hipshot locking tuners handle the headstock, and the whole thing rides a 25 inch scale with a set neck.
The pickups come from @righteoussoundpickups Righteous Sound, RAF Humbuckers wound to sit inside a P90-sized soapbar rout. Justin Motander envisioned P90-sized humbuckers that sounded like the first Cars record, and that's exactly what came back. The artwork on this set came from Motander himself, and the winder executed the vision without compromise.
The other half of this instrument is the Remora Electro-Trem, and this is where some serious innovation lives. Its maker spent countless hours watching players nail clean volume swells and never quite got the hang of it, so he went hunting for technology to simplify the technique and found something that only half worked. What it does brilliantly instead is faux reverse-tape, that swelling attack that sounds run backward. It handles tone accents, killswitch stabs, and a genuinely subtle tremolo that breathes rather than chops. The Electro-Trem earned a patent application in 2025, proof this is a genuinely new idea, not a rehash.
Pressing your pick-hand palm on the pad with varying pressure modulates the volume or tone of the guitar. For those wondering, the effect is passive not active, and in my experience it plays well with vintage fuzzes and treble boosters. The textures I was getting were evocative of "One Rainy Wish" and other reverse delay tracks from Hendrix's catalog. This was an ask I had for Justin right before he sent me the guitar, and he added the tone modulation to the stock volume setup. So cool.
Signal chain in this demo: Emerson Custom Treble Bleed, R2R Electric Cash Boost, R2R Electric Klone, into a Benson Amps Benmaster 3x10" loaded with three Jupiter 10-LAP speakers (pre-broken in), through an Effectrode Tube Vibe and Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander.
Order a Remora Electro-Trem kit for your Telecaster, thank me later. DM Motander Guitars on Instagram, and if you want a build started with Justin, tell him I sent you.
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🎙️ Recording Rig: Absolutely no virtual / IR / direct sounds. 4 mics on a real cab. Royer R-121, Lauten Audio LS-208, Ohma Ribbon on front of cab, Royer R10 on back of cab. All mics sent through Universal Audio Apollo x4 with default preamps and no digital preamp emulation plugins, mixed in Ableton Live 12.
