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DigiTech Bass Whammy

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A modern interpretation of the classic effect designed specifically for our 4- and 5-string friends.

The next generation Bass Whammy uses the most advanced pitch detection and polyphonic note-tracking technology to create the world's best pitch-s...

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Justin Chancellor

This video from DunlopTV features the guitar tech of TOOL's longest acting bassist, Justin Chancellor. As he runs through some of the pedals within Chancellor's pedal board, we see that the over-all board is in 3 sections. On the right of the center section is probably the most iconic pedal in Chancellor's collection. The DigiTech Bass Whammy (First Generation) is a rare pedal and likely due to the popularity brought to it by famous TOOL songs such as Forty-Six & 2, Schism, Right in Two, Jambi, 3rd Eye, Lateralus, Eulogy, and many more where this pedal us used in major ways.
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Victor Wooten

"Victor Wooten has gotten hit by a Whammy, the Bass Whammy!"
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Jeff Ament

Can be seen on Jeff's pedal board at http://giventowail.com/site/img/gear/jeff/jeff_board.jpg
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Troy Sanders

When recording "Crack the Skye", DigiTech Bass Whammy can be seen on Troy studio's pedalboard (taken from the "Making of" DVD).
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Juan Alderete

"Aldrerete uses the Bass Whammy at the end of his pedalboard to transpose what he’s playing to match the key of a song. 'I keep it as the last pedal in my effects chain so that I can send any sound I create through it, and the Bass Whammy will keep that sound intact while raising or lowering the pitch to match the song. It works fantastically well for this purpose.'" - Juan Alderete in [this article from Digitech](http://digitech.com/en-US/news/racer-x-the-mars-volta-zavalaz-bassist-juan-alderete-digs-deep-with-digitech-bass-whammy).
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Brian Cook

In this picture/rundown of effects Brian uses with Russian Circles, you can clearly see a Digitech Bass Whammy.
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Debbie Googe

A Bass Whammy can be seen in this picture of Debbie Googe's pedalboard.
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Branden Campbell

Featured in this video from the official DigiTech YouTube channel.
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Brian Gibson

We can see very clear on his pedalboard a Bass Whammy.
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Kristian Dunn

After losing most of their equipment in March 2013, some equipment was replaced with differing models. Kristian opted for a Bass Whammy to replace his Whammy-Wah and 4th Generation Whammy.
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Nathan Latona

Nathan goes over his entire pedalboard over the course of five videos, as well as a post by Pedals and Effects on their website, the Bass Whammy can be seen on the third video
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Will Bottomley

bought this in 2014
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Barend Courbois

MARKBASS IN THE HOUSE
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Description

A modern interpretation of the classic effect designed specifically for our 4- and 5-string friends.

The next generation Bass Whammy uses the most advanced pitch detection and polyphonic note-tracking technology to create the world's best pitch-shifting effect pedal optimized for bass. The Bass Whammy maintains the classic settings from the original with many modern upgrades. With two different tracking modes, Classic and Chord, the Bass Whammy gives players the ability to recreate the shift glitch effects from the original or get the smooth pitch-shift effect. Chord mode uses advanced polyphonic tracking algorithms for a more exact and smooth pitch shift effect while Classic maintains the tracking artifacts of the original Whammy. The Bass Whammy is true bypass, MIDI controllable, and uses a 9V DC power supply to easily integrate into your existing pedal board.

Specifications

Iconic Whammy effect
Updated original Bass Whammy settings and more
Two different classic and chord (polyphonic) tracking modes
MIDI input for control
21 different pitch settings
Optimized for bass frequencies
True bypass

3 DigiTech Bass Whammy Reviews

lucassantiago

263

A must have gear

The polyfonic settings are awesome and pitch controls are very userful to be creative in various songs and weirdo things you want

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over 2 years ago
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corporalcal

405

Irriplacable peice of shit.

I love the way it sounds. I would feel weird playing without it. But its built very poorly, takes up too much space, and the knob is very annoying to use as opposed to the classic buttons. Too bad it sounds so great.

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over 4 years ago
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mark_huxley

256

A big pedal with a big sound

Yes, it does take up rather a lot of real estate on my pedalboard but, I like this one a lot and I'm so glad Digitech decided to update and re-release it. Good, solid build quality and great for octave, fifth, etc. sounds (although I'm not mad keen on the 'divebomb' effect - I reckon my Zoom B2.1u sounds smoother for that sort of thing). The chorus effect is surprisingly lush too...

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almost 3 years ago
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