DigiTech Whammy WH-1
User Reviews of the DigiTech Whammy WH-1
- Submitted by Ian from Belvidere, IL (4 points) on Nov 29, 2009
- I actually have the WH - 4 which is sadly missing from noise guide (despite being the whammy most people have) anyway, i use this to do noisey fills in my chaotic crusty punk band. Basically its hitting a chord or muting the strings then pitch shifting up. or i just wank around on it to add a certain quality to our free jazz jams. This thing works awesomely with feedback running through it on the harmony settings, you can create alien warbles, sirens, bizzare stutters and crunches. its great! or you can play on a harmony setting while shifting it back and forth to alter the harmony. its hideous! You can turn the volume way down on the octave up settings and get a ring mod noise, its non adjustable though....
- Good Points: glitchy tracking overall amazingness
- Bad Points: cant turn the knob with your feet. they should go back to having arrow up and down buttons
- Price Paid: US$0.00
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- Submitted by Aleem from Romford (18 points) on Jun 2, 2009
- Well what can i say about this.. well if your making noise.. its practically cheating, if your playing guitar its really unoriginal.. this thing really does shine on low frequencys tho produces crazy crazy tracking and artificial harmonics galore.. place two next to each other and a fx86 and a ring mod then put.a.fork.in.me...
- Good Points: bad tracking fake harmonys cool legato phrasings produces a controllable curcuit bending style effect when used with other pitch pedals
- Bad Points: just one? on its own? no other pitch? FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE
- Price Paid: US$0.00
- Purchased At: 16th birthday present
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- Submitted by Anthony from Melbourne (66 points) on Feb 20, 2009
- I don't have the wh-1 but the wh-4(which is missing from noisfuid at time of review). I bought this as a celebratory purchase when i landed a new job. Back in the olden days when I was a teenager I played with the WH-1 and thoought it was cool but so much time has passed I can't compare. I had a friends wh-2 for a while more recently and the reissue really kicks it in the bee hind as far as tracking and tonality goes! The wh-4 does all the stuff the wh-1 does plus a few extras. in particular the midi input. This can lead to all sorts of automated madness if you use MIDI CC numbers from your sequencer. If you're using Ableton Live this can be annoyingly difficult. Hardware wise I don't know how to convert midi notes to midi cc for perfect pitch but its possible by computer. Its got a sweet flange sound in oneof the detune settings and the octave down setting actually sounds meaty and tracks perfectly. Coupling this thing with a delay yields some fantastically weird noise results. I use it in a surf/noise band and its perfec for spooky sweeps and general weirdness. I haven't tried it on a feedback loop yet(mine is in pieces) but I imagine it'll do some pretty far out things.
- Good Points: solid construction, wider variety of uses than usually credited, midi control.
- Bad Points: midi control sucks! using CC's is annoying if you want to use specific pitch control from something such as a keyboard.
- Price Paid: US$200.00
- Purchased At: musicswopshop.com.au
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- Submitted by Iain David from United Kingdom (144 points) on Dec 7, 2006
- The WH-1 is a pretty versatile pitch shifter, with loads of presets to choose from. Admittedly, half of them are harmonising functions which probably won't be that useful for full on capital N noise, but if your into making squelchy psyched out glitchy experimental electronics squeedge like i am (yeah.....) then it's pretty wicked. Does that rubbery babbling synth noise charactisics of pitch shifters brilliantly on the +2 octave setting. However, the extremes of most settings do weaken the volume level, and it's a pretty harsh tone sucker.
- Good Points: - Very Flexible - Makes a crazy noise when plugged into itself - MIDI compatible, if that's your kind of thing - Really good for ambience, drones and generally squelchiness
- Bad Points: - Sucks tone - Some loss of volume when the treadle is all completely toe down in Whammy settings. - Big and heavy (it almost broke my shoulder carrying round town in my bag when I bought it!).
- Price Paid: US$0.00
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- Submitted by cory from Victoria (38 points) on Nov 15, 2006
- Picked this up from a friend here in Victoria, plugged it in and...wow. Really good for low end variations for wall noise, the choices of one or two octaves either up or down make it idea for wall noise, the octaves up make it sound kind of weak though. Nice additional feature is a wah style chorus that can alternate between deep/shallow, as well as the drop tune feature, which basically alternates between a regular tone and a slightly altered one. Or use the dive bomb feature for 8 bit lo-fi pitch shift down. It does suck a bit of tone, so it's ideal to use mid chain. Turns vocals into pretty sick cookie monster vocals if you tap it down slightly. In a feedback loop with my DOD FX86 it started making an offset series of gabber kicks depending on where the wah ped was. Interesting to experiement with.
- Good Points: - adjustable pitch shifter with harmonizing ability - 1 or two octave choice up or down - chorus abilities
- Bad Points: - bit pricey - power supply only - overused in a band which will remain nameless
- Price Paid: US$150.00
- Purchased At: local friend
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- Submitted by Beavis from Afghanistan (258 points) on Mar 18, 2006
- The holy grail of pitch shifters? I can compare this too the boss ps3 and the digitech whammy/wah. This is by far the best. Does all the cliched sqwarks and squeals. as well as the cheesey harmonising and the octave drops. Also works as a very nice cocteau's type chorus. When feedback on itself it goes absolutly crazy in a flock of birds on a murderous rampage type of way.
- Good Points: The sound is great....maybe overused but great none the less.....a really inspirational pedal...works really nicely with ambient music.
- Bad Points: Power supply only.....a certain rap/funk/rock band overused this pedal, so can be somewhat limited.
- Price Paid: US$279.00
- Purchased At: Ebay.co.uk
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