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DigiTech Whammy
A pitch-shifting pedal controlled by an expression pedal. Can shift pitch up or down in real time, creating dive bomb effects, harmony lines, and otherworldly sounds. A signature tool for Tom Morello and Jack White.
Modeler equivalents
- helix
- Pitch Wham
- quad_cortex
- Whammy
- fractal
- Classic Whammy
- kemper
- Pedal Pitch
- katana
- Pitch Shifter (Pedal FX)
Recipes using this gear
Field notes on the DigiTech Whammy
All field notes →Acoustic Guitar Through a Pickup Sounds Bad — Five Frequency Fixes That Save the Tone
Plug an acoustic with a piezo or magnetic soundhole pickup into an interface and the result almost always sounds wrong — quacky, brittle, missing the body. The good news is the problem is mostly in five specific frequency regions, and you can fix it with EQ before reaching for a DI box upgrade.
Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine Tone Recipe
Tom Morello's tone broken down: the JCM800 gain structure, wah-as-filter technique, Whammy settings, and how to approximate it on a modeler or pedalboard.