Digitech Whammy

Oeneus

My Whammy arrived to day. All is good and well, and have had endless fun playing with it. Although there's one itty bitty thing that's irritating me.
When you play more than one string (you know... a chord), it tends to warble, as if its almost struggling to process it. It doesn't happen so much in the harmony settings, but pretty much everything else.

Does everyone have this problem?

feylya

Aye, it's trying to find the note. I think all the reissues do it as does the pitch shifter on the ME-50. The original whammmy pedal didn't have it I think.

david

Yep, whammy pedals are not good for playing chords... the tracking in general is really good if you play single notes... Theres no such thing as a true real-time pitch shifter yet... they all sound warbly and artificial...

feylya

Some of the rack mounted ones are quite good. Eventide Harmonizers, Boss GT Pro, G-Major, all supposed to be rather good.

-=al=-

rack harmonizers are $$$ tho u can some really good ones tho but there so dear!! i got my ps-5 for all my harmonies and pitch shifting, i love that little pedal

Oeneus

The fact that it's a £170 pedal that doesn't quite do everything to a standard I expected kinda pisses me off. I mean what the hell am I paying for?

I suppose if this is as good as it gets I'm just going to have to make do.

feylya

Personally, I want to try the G-Major with a FCB1010 midi controller. Costs about €600 I think but there's all my effects in one box, including pitch shifter and wah.

jcoote

i found with the whammy that power chords are not too bad they don't go as crazy as a regular chord and a bit of delay always seemed to help too!! All goining well and depending on how the flexitone xl preforms for me i might just invest in a g major over the gt-6