All user reviews for the DigiTech Whammy WH-4

Effect: how to say ... a doubling of its detachable? valdingueur a note? the sound is unique, listen to Tom Morello and Stevie Vai, are the great ambassadors of this pedal. Jack on mono 6.35, making PSU and possibility to connect it to midi?

UTILIZATION

Configuration easy enough but twenty presets, it's hard to navigate. then make jou-jou with the pedal (like a wha-wha) it's not that simple, must practice ... not easy to use nonetheless.

SOUND QUALITY

Well then, I put zero points. I never got to use it. The sound is awful (I affectionately call the pedal that causes vomiting) whenever I 'm trying all other zicos make me frown, add to that she eats the sound, that it captures the radio to judgment and that it takes a place not possible on the pedalboard. Conclusion: effect pedal that shit and fucks the souk in my chain effect .... lousy quality level. Meanwhile DIGITECH is not known for making quality ...

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this pedal in a crisis of GAS, I wanted the sound of Rage Again The Machine or Stevie Vai .... ca me was a lesson, I do not buy more gear before trying . The price / quality ratio tends to "minus infinity" as say Mr Barale, my math teacher in Terminal C. For literary, no quality and completely unreasonable price (250 €)

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UTILIZATION

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SOUND QUALITY

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OVERALL OPINION

The effect is genial and the many opportunities on this point nothing to say, have fun.
Yes voila, big disappointment pedal eats the signal to death, sometimes blows, add to it a disgusting angular design and colors vinasse bum vomit and you have the most overrated pedals. Unusable in studio, live to be brave. Odd for a supposedly legend is very average as material, see enough considering the price. For me it is out of the question that I put a weak link like it in my pedalboard. Disappointed. Trash.

I bought this from a friend for a quality $100. I wanted it so I could have a little more fun with my guitar, and Tom Morello is my hero.

This sexy red mean machine digitally bends your guitar to the end of the horizon. You can dive bomb 3 octaves down, or shoot 2 up, it has two sweet choruses (shallow/deep) and harmonies. Its solid as rock. I don't know how many times I've tripped and landed with all my weight on it in my room, but it never has screwed up once (except one time it actually went up 4 octaves, I was totally confused). It's perfect for beefing up intense solos. It also has barely any delay between input and output, which is sweet. You can hook your stereo up to it too, which is good times.

What I didn't like about this unit was its function. Anything you did with it was so strange that it had to be saved for a separate bridge in the song. And whenever in harmonies, or bent mode, and you play two notes, it gets really nasty sounding. Its good for rock, a few things jazz, or definetly any kind of out-there music. But after that, it doesn't fit in. And, power adapter is a must.

It'a about the size of a cigar box, with a beautiful red coat. It has an expression pedal at the left used for your whamming. and a knob, and all the functions with LED lights on either side of the knob. It lets you know what your doing, in case you were wondering... There is no place for batteries, you need an adapter

It's loads of fun, but if you try it out, make sure its right for your band.

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Other opinions are very well written Caracteristics on this pedal, mono, digital, in metal case very solid and well built in my opinion.

I've never used the second outlet, in retrospect it's a great addition, to put such a tuner!

I never used any MIDI connectors, so I do not talk about it.

The specific voltage AC adapter is annoying, something more portable. Apparently, only Burkey offers a brick for powering the whammy.

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is not super complicated, if only one knows his lines and tones on the part harmonizer. Editing sounds is easy.
Fortunately, the manual is to explain how to "recalibrate" the pedal when it becomes false. It's a shame, and a bit surreal on a mechanical effect if known, and still cost price.

SOUND QUALITY

Then the effect is proposed just awesome. The guy who thought the time was a couple harmonizer with an expression pedal is a genius. I used it with my guitar, all sounds of Morello are directly accessible (or almost, AC is also technical!).
The problem is that with two years of guitar behind me and little experience, I found that the pedal of his puffed and dynamics, so I sold. I can not imagine what I would think today! As syl2412 puts it very well: it is a pedal just fine for a unique effect.

OVERALL OPINION

I used some time before I part with it. I had tried any effect like this before, and for good reason, it does not exist. The Boss ps have similar characteristics, but the expression pedal is separate and not included.
I loved her, but I hated the way she had to eat the sound. Over time, I have come anyway to find a little too "gimmick". Morello, Vai and White used it intelligently. We left? This is the kind of effect that quickly becomes unpalatable if one makes a mess.

The value for money I think is a little unfair. Not the level of benefits, but given the quality of the product.

The new DT whammy air to solve a lot of defects WH4, but its size is an insurmountable handicap for which no one pedalboard brawny and broad.

If my choice was to do again, I orienterais to the Boss PS-6 coupled with an expression pedal, I alimenterais v 9 in me not to take the lead, and that I would take up less space.

The Whammy is a far apart in the small world of special effects. This is actually a simple pitch-shifter, but with its most representative is comparable to that obtained with the pitch bend wheel on a synth.

Clearly, we play a note, and the action of the foot will drag it to another note located higher or lower relative to the note played. Just like ... a whammy bar or a vibrato in French ...

The score obtained in this way depends on the preset selected. + Or - 1 or 2 octaves - 6 octaves (!) For the effects of dive-bomb the EVH, but also things more nuance such as -1 tone that creates sounds close to the game bottleneck, etc. ... This is actually a pedal "alien" that allows all the wildest experimentation that uses the most nuanced according to the foot that arise over.

The presets called "Harmony" are not far behind. In contrast presets "Whammy", their function is to add the scores obtained in the original note depending, again, the preset selected. This makes it possible to add to the note played different intervals which vary depending on pedal position. For example, 4te /-5TE respectively when the pedal is in position "point in the air" or "point down". Or-1oct / 1 October Or you 5/6 you, etc. ...
You can get a lot of interesting things. For example, with the preset you 5/6 you, you can get convincing tones type Pedal-Steel, proof that this pedal is not only devoted to Tom Morellesques acrobatics.

Finally, two presets "Detune" pseudo-chorus offer a relatively limited but that does its job and makes some good service.

The bulk of this version + (regarded by followers as the fourth of the series) is definitely the presence of its MIDI input that allows it to respond to many follies.
Via a sequencer, it becomes possible for example to create melodic figures using a control change corresponding to the position of the foot control. It also becomes possible for musicians rackés of "ranger" pedal in a drawer in the flight case and Whammy to drive the distance from a MIDI foot controller. The advantages are so obvious. Reducing the number of audio cables and / or length between the pedal-board and the rack, can change the preset Whammy on the fly from the pedals without having to stoop, ability to drive the pedal via a reader of midi files, etc. ... Some manufacturers do in fact there are not deceived, see for example Moltent Voltage MIDI 2 (http://www.moltenvoltage.com/molten_midi_2.html) multiplies the possibilities of the Whammy.
In short, this is surely the greatest innovation introduced by Digitech pedal to its red.

Its faults it remains important to keep in mind. A bypass deplorable gripe a lot the original raw signal, and of course the fact that his treatment suffers polyphonic playing. But this latter deficiency is also being appreciated by many guitarists because it provides a characteristic bleating sound plays as soon as we agreed, however, that the pedal is activated mode 1 October (for example). This is actually a sound that I like my m ^ m much to the point that it became the base effect of a number of my compositions. Incidentally, I found some small variants in conjunction with the pitch-shifter of my Axe-FX Ultra. For example, a mode in October to play chords, I correct the pitch with the pitch-shifter of the Axis-1oct fashion. Result, I play with the height of my normal tuning, but while enjoying the sound instability which I just mentioned. And there are many other possible uses ...

If instead the "default" makes you cringe and want absolute stability in polyphonic playing, you better turn to another model like the Whammy or the Bomber DT Morpheus.

UTILIZATION

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SOUND QUALITY

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OVERALL OPINION

Everything said above ...

This is the legendary whammy pedal that put digitech on the MAP! It also made a few guitarists super duper famous. I have the 4th revision of it. I don't know exactly what's different, maybe it tracks better and some of the parts for the build are a bit better? Also the casing is different in size, maybe smaller, not sure.

Definitely the dive bomb feature is new, don't know when they started putting that feature in but the whammy 4 definitely has it.

Whammy modes including famous 2 Octave Up as heard on 100's of songs!
10 Harmony Bend modes including 2nd Up to 3rd Up simulating pedal steel bends!
Expression pedal controls dive bombs and bends
Cutting-edge pitch detection engine designed specifically for guitar delivers fast accurate shifting!
MIDI In & Out/Thru to control pitch bends via cc's




UTILIZATION

Pretty simple to get any of those RATM sounds you've heard many many times before. Just stick to the 2 octave up setting, Tom uses that the most the last time I checked.

Overall, easy to setup, just simple plug it in and turn the knob to whatever setting you want to play around with and step on it and rock it back and forth to get crazy!



SOUND QUALITY

Sound quality here is hard to define exactly. For the tone purists this is a pedal to stay away from, it's not true bypass (though there are mods out there these days for that) nor does it really 'retain that original guitar sound' as it's kinda meant to warp it and shift it in pitch and do crazy things to your guitar sound. So those who have rigs or boards with nice boutiquey-truebypass-non tone-sucking setups, this'll probably negatively affect your signal chain.

But then again that's not the point of this pedal. It's designed to be the wild card in your rig! So coming into the game knowing that, you'll find yourself having a lot more fun with the sounds this pedal has to offer.

I actually really like the detune features both the deep and shallow they sound like convincingly good as a chorus-replacement! The dive bomb feature is also great. I used to play only floating bridge equipped guitars to do all the tricks but I've gotten sick of maintaining them and worrying about tuning stability etc so I've gone hard tail and with the whammy I can replicate the same ideas though of course they don't sound alike, the whammy makes it sounds more digital but I kinda like that!


OVERALL OPINION

To conclude this is actually the first whammy i've owned. I know so many players who have owned it before and sold it and bought it back again etc. Like I said it's the wild card in your pedalboard. Either you can find use for it or you can just use it for some fun tricks! I think it's quite worth having for what I do. I do a lot of cover songs especially Rage tunes, I also don't have a chorus pedal but with the whammy I now have 2 chorus settings to use. I also now only own fixed bridge guitars so I can't do the trem tricks, and yet again here's the whammy to cover those tricks for me! Pretty useful in my book.

Again it's not a great sound in terms of 'tone' it's digital-ish so you'd have to get over that, or mod it if you got the extra time and $$.

The digitech whammy of is actually a Octaver, the pedals can raise or lower in the notes (until October 2 and October -6) technology whammy is in fact disappear as the fundamental and measure of the pedals appuyage thus there is only one note.

This wide variety of pedals possde Octaver.

The detuneur dcalage trslger is a note giving the chorus sound but not unlike a rotary chorus pedals.

It has an output between twelve one dry practice leads connected to an electronic tuner.

UTILIZATION

The edition is a simple wheel enables going from one position to another. A Bypass switch is down the pedals it is easy to access. The PDAL is fixed when the foot is loose in the event that allows filtering of not having readjusted during the game

Octaver mode is varied and can range from two position with the pedals (eg -1 in October in the open position in a firm)

The manual is very simple.

SOUND QUALITY

So it's the fte. The sound is excellent whammy is very close to the original. It is far from the trs mistake digitech 100 with XP. The grain is beautiful and it's not what mtallique found on the XP100.
Bypass mode is excellent and even when the whammy is shot towards the rear sound is not altrer.
The Detune is interresting because it is activated only in closed position (down) and allows to note some of the chorus in a song.
regarding the Octaver what if the whammy is excellent dj Octaver the best that can be (because fewer electrons comes into play, see beginners)
I utils to beginners with a disto Boss DS2, now I also combines with the distortion on my Marshall, trs sound is good with a distortion APRS.
As for the guitar uses two fundamental differences: Single or Double microphone?
The sound gives a simple micro-whammy of a softer, less violent thereby making Młoda its distortion.
The dual microphone when they are convenient for quick shots whammy or rapid movement of the foot.
See for yourself with your games.

OVERALL OPINION

I possde whammy this for 3 years to replace the XP 100 (I had 3 years as well).
The positive cots:
- It combines readily with other pedals because the sound output is sharp
- It is recalibrating the touch of the switch on / off during power up (and more expensive problem of very Repair Tool again for just one octave)
- It is very solid, switch on / off is mtal switch that changes the plastic (I had to do rpar every six months so that I do not violently above)
- Roulette is easy to access with the foot in case you have forgotten to turn it before playing it can be done without stooping.

The cots negative: low if you do not like red. If anything.
My best investment of Contents "effect.
Ms. MRIT it new price.

I will not spend the lowest There's all that necessary.
just my personal opinion:
efficase is simple, I just AIM another knob that would have a dry mix of sound and sound related.

UTILIZATION

Nothing to say, it's great ... well done

SOUND QUALITY

Ben for me is the hurt that has:
I have not found her that well, once the sound is modified by the Octaver, it's really bizarre, note ranges, it's not fluid at all (like the sound of d stall a harmonizer) is also what happens if you play two notes at once.
It goes into distortion, but its clear you can hear it really, the sound is not accurate even if it actually keeps a good momentum trs. I am not quibble, I really t's.

OVERALL OPINION

I got it for 1 year and I have all of the same well with jou, but some things I've always drang.
I found what c'tait when I sold it to buy a 88 yd. or there is a transition from one octave to another very fluid trs, trs singing, a sound as pure trs, no tremor and amme consistent if we want. forcment is not done but it does a much better
But hey it's the only good which whammy pedals, it's true ...

Digital effects pedal harmonizer, which is also octave, pitch, flanger & chorus.
It has a MIDI output, a power line in, line out, line out directly (no effect)
knob and can select the effect.
The case is heavy, and apparently a strength to any épreuves.On avoid any well all events, it's not obligé.Il fed with a Power Box comes with, no place for batteries here .
and of course the expression pedal that varies the desired sound.
Some say it is for metalheads priority .. I did not especially but yet I'm completely Whammysé ...

UTILIZATION

It is a lighter foot pressure and the desired option is selected, is not simple.
So we can choose between three types of main effects, the Bender at the foot, it changes the note of the desired interval, interface, or it has two effects called "deep" and "shadow" which are nothing that a flanger and a chorus (from what I see) adjustable by the pressure of the exp pedal. and finally the harmonizer, 9 presets.
These nine types of harmonizer, or the sound of the instrumment mixed with his third, his fifth, his sixth, etc., up to the octave. In each case, we just change the note added with the expression pedal.
For the whammy, it's six types of product variation;
2 types can vary from your note, descending or ascending, the other two differ by an octave, like, one down and one going up, and two other, similar, but a octave.
it's simple and effective.
I have not had the opportunity to test the MIDI, not follower.

SOUND QUALITY

Then I shared.
Concretely, when you turn the mode whammy effect, what happens is a slight delay on the sound as is, or without the pedal is enfonsée.c is boring, anyway.
is lost in presence.
after, the sound effect is the same as convaincant.En + is compared with all imitations are pérraves I tested (some more), it is, there's no picture!
the whammy 2 octaves to tear you in two!
This is the formid.Et + crazy is that once the extreme treble, 2 octaves above sea level, the sound is correct!
The bass becomes a banjo mandolin guitar in ... .... and between the two poles of the effect, it mimics a scratch easily ... the resulting options are numerous.

fou.Mystère.il it is good, a little "pixelation" sound, but no worse than the same recreated by a ordi.C is effective
The harmonizer them are correct.
And should we therefore blame the loss of her?
Yes it's a shame, but you do not have to keep it switched on when not in use.
Then turn right at the moment of the effect, there hoodwinked.

OVERALL OPINION

A good effect, the best of its kind to my connaissance.Solide, efficient ...
The debate is: between the fact that the sound is attenuated enu both the effect on, and the fact that it is very well restored during the "pitch", is this a good deal?
I say, given the other replicas, it is by far the meilleure.Bon the price is uncompromising against him ... it's an investment, I know, you must be crazy effects then or what we cherche.Moi I find that it still kills.

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UTILIZATION

- The general configuration is it simple?

A very simple switch to activate the pedal. A small switch to raise or lower the presets would inch was the luxury ...
- Publishing of sound effects or is it easy?
Very simple, because limited to a type of effect. In the limit only the calibration is a bit painful.

SOUND QUALITY

Well there ... I think this is a very specific purpose, which does not fit in. across. It is interesting, but must hand over fare.

I was not attracted not the machine. Also a slight latency is evident in qq modes.

For the complexity of the impact and originality 9 I will, for the latency and not always very natural side effect I will 4. I note 6.

OVERALL OPINION

In the end I did not keep. I think with a little practice and imagination can achieve a result ... see Muse and RATM example ...

* We are dealing with an octave. (Up / down gradually, or not, one or two octaves or down three octaves with the new Dive Bomb effect) The WH4 also offers the possibility to switch to Drop (-1 ton)
* Play with the harmonies: When playing a note, we get the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or octave corresponding major or minor.
* Two sounds supplmentaires Deep and Shallow
* Pure numrique (Digitech)
* Exit South, between a jack 'dry' and 'wet'

UTILIZATION

* The configuration is rather simple, even if it takes some time to learn how to use and fully exploit all the capabilities.
* The edition is very simple since pre-program the pedals ^ ^
* I do not have the manual with REU, so you must learn to use them on time and with experience. However if you really galerez you will find the manual french / english in PDF format on the Internet.

SOUND QUALITY

* The effects are super efficient and indmodables. It has a PDAL importance in several groups (in particular Rage against the Machine Tom Morello, and Muse) It would be big to say that the sound is 'raliste' because everything is a digital traffic America, and certain sounds sound really dull and plain computer (one could almost hear the pixels ^ ^) but hey it's not particularly shocking and it goes very well on the saturation.
* I use a Fender Stratocaster, but especially with a Les Paul Gold Top, with which one can enjoy even more thanks to the selector switch in micro transform on / off
* I have a real weakness for 1 and 2 octave up, which allow you to make truly original solos and space, in short, dejants.

OVERALL OPINION

* I use the pedals for two years and become indispensable to me. The songs take on another dimension, and the pedals are saving when you think you have achievement and explores the world of solos and effects ^ ^ I use it to play Rage Against the Machine and solos Tom Morello, but I am also very useful in my personal component.
* The price is reasonable, I do not regret this purchase

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I note that this is just the largest of all the whammy, and it is annoying to the caller pedalboard

UTILIZATION

Simple Config
recalibration is not easy to understand at first, too bad it's explained in the manual I had to go live on the site
but once done it's done
I have no personal problems or irregularity which is nickel

SOUND QUALITY

What could be more effective than whammy
is the sound after whammy, as it tastes, but if you like morello ...
Used with a scratch in assets, but it works equally well with other instruments (bass, winds, etc.)
I use a lot the octave 1 or 2 colors on top, basic, and sometimes other modes that are also funs

OVERALL OPINION

Used for 1 month
I like that this pedal sounds fun product
cons to be considered by it as just something fun, it's not really an indispensable since we used an ad hoc basis, contrairemene a reverb for example ...
Q / P I find a little abused, but there is no tro choice in this category so ...
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I will not go on, and, there's a lot of opinions ...

So it's a harmonizer with an expression pedal, a pitch or a chorus in the manner.

We have a choice of modes: Harmony in the octave but also to all the intervals (7, 7 b, 6, 5, fourth etc ...) that overlap to create different intonations depending the position of the pedal ... For example, one sixth the pedal up and pedal in a straight down ... It was therefore the direct sound with the sound tranposé at a time.

The pitch at different scale, the pedal down, the direct sound, the pedal is on the top two octaves, one octave, -1 octave, octave -2, -3 octave (Dive Bomber) or detune (1 ton and less, the whole guitar goes in D).

The mode chorus chorus presents two more or less pronounced and then the effect is modulated with the pedal.

In short a lot of things on the menu and it will take time to shop around and find what all this may well be useful ...

UTILIZATION

Archi-use simple, one knob to select the effect and a button to pedal Inrush ...

The small downside is that there are many different mode so you can hardly choose the mode by turning the foot ... it seems to be a luxury, but when I have a pedal that makes a lot of things I like to pass easily from one to another. It can be useful in moving a piece of a single octave to dive bomb mode or an octave ... we must add a MIDI foot controller for it ...

SOUND QUALITY

Sound quality ... it's hard to judge because it is a unique effect, without competition. The sound is distorted when you change octave ... but is it normal? Quality? A defect? At first I took it as a defect, and now I like the distortion it produces, it's pretty special, I like it. I do not use with my guitar but I used it once with one voice ... it's also his taff ', but not for.

[edit] There is a competitor, the electro-Harmonix HOG with an expression pedal, it has also looked good "cleaner". According to a video on YouTube could be implemented play a few tones easily and even the octave would produce very little sound distortion ... a check by testing for yourself [/ edit]

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for over a year, I like most is that this is not an effect, but really musical possibilities and more ... it's more a transforamtion of the instrument sound in itself. A year later I still have not found how to properly use all modes, and that's excellenet for research and inspiration! Muse and Radiohead are some very interesting things with on a few albums all ... RATM but as yet we are not in the same style ... everyone is using it as he sees fit and it sometimes surprises ... I find myself making electro arpeggios and solos from Radiohead and Daft Punk ...