DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal

The DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal is part of Matthew Bellamy's pedalboard setup. He especially used it during Muse's Resistance Tour in 2009, as can be seen in this photo from that period.

"I got a Whammy Pedal and I thought, Okay, you don’t have to do solos, but it would be nice if once in a while the guitar broke out and had a moment for itself and then went back to the band. The Whammy enabled me to get an octave higher than everybody else, so I could break through for a few seconds and do a lick and then come back to the song. And now I just want solos to be an octave higher and piercing... Also, I like to manipulate my DigiTech Whammy pedal starting with the low octave. I love low octaves. I’ve always loved playing octaves on the piano, even as a little kid. So when they came out with that pedal, and I heard Tom Morello use it in Rage Against the Machine, I knew I’d finally found an interesting pedal."

At 3:34 into this video walkthrough of Kings of Leon's gear on stage (from Aug 2009), you can see the pedals Matthew Followill keeps with him at the front of the stage, including the DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal.

In [this MusicRadar article](http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/u2-exclusive-the-edges-stage-setup-revealed-223342/), the Edge's tech, Dallas Schoo, discusses Edge's rig for the 360 tour. The WH-1 is listed on among the pedals on the Edge's main pedalboard.

In this last photo of Wayne Sermon's third pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a Whammy pedal is seen at the bottom-left corner.

The DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Guitar Effects Pedal is part of Steve Vai's pedalboard.

"The Whammy pedal is used for the chorus on 'Revelation'."

"The old school DigiTech Whammy pedal, they don't make them small anymore and I'm looking for more of those because there's something about that pedal that he just loves," says Joe Perry's guitar tech.

In this photo, we can see Gallagher's pedalboard, which has the DigiTech Whammy. This pedal has been used for the end of "The Shock Of The Lightning", and it can be heard on [Wembley 2008 performance.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxqucFSdixs)

I’ve never used or owned a distortion pedal. It was just the guitar and cable straight to the amp” – EVH That being said, Eddie did use a couple of other effects in his chain. He used a MXR Phase 90 and MXR 6-Band EQ at the beginning of the chain, and some other effects like Echoplex EP-3 Delay, MXR Flanger, and Univox EC-80 Tape Echo closer to the end of the chain. These days Eddie uses somewhat different rig. He has a couple of his own signature pedals from MXR/Dunlop in the chain – like the EVH117 Flanger, Phase 90, and the EVH95 Signature Wah – and some other pedals like the Boss OC-3 Super Octave, Digitech Whammy, and MXR M234 Analog Chorus.

Dunlop Rotovibe Digitech Whammy Pedal Dunlop Heil Talkbox (used on the “Man in the Box”) Digital Music Corp Ground Control Pro Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi (used on his solo album “Boggy Depot”) Ibanez TS808HW Tube Screamer ISP Decimator MXR EVH Flanger MXR Bass Octave Plus MXR Smart Gate (x2) BOSS CH-1 Super Chorus BOSS CE-5 Chorus Ensemble BOSS TR-2 Tremolo BOSS TU-2 Chromatic Tuner Eventide TimeFactor Xotic AC plus

A 5th-generation Whammy was used for *Live at Pompeii*.

According to this 1994 interview with Guitar World Magazine, Dimebag Darrell uses a Digitech Whammy pedal to affect the feedback on the song ["Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills,"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnS3M6GUoD4) as well as a few other tracks. " I discovered the pure feedback wasn't quite enough, so I added a Digitech Whammy Pedal to the equation, which helped produce a sound that was completely fucked up!" he said.

In his interview for Music Radar, he told about his rig, in which Whammy was visible.

Mike Hill has created custom pedalboard remote controllers for the band. In his site we can see Guy's pedalboard which has written the effects names on it.

– MXR Phase 100 – Digitech Whammy – Dunlop Cry Baby Wah – Line 6 DM4 – Klon Centaur – Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor – Lovetone Brown Source

In this photo, along with POG, Zindani also uses Whammy pedal.

While discussing effects, around 38:50, TM Stevens mentions his Digitech Whammy. He says, "It gives you a more of a guitaresque feel to the bass...And over here of course it's a pitch shifter."

In this picture of Devin's pedalboard we can see a DigiTech Whammy. Proof of this being Devin's board can be seen in [this image](http://www.ghostcultmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Devin-Townsend-Project-%C2%A9HillarieJason1-6.jpg).

"...The item can be seen 6:12 into this video..."

He's talking about the DigiTech Whammy

In the interview for Total Guitar, Marc Rizzo says, "[..] There's a lot of weird sounds that I rely on it for. [..] I use it for the intro to Prophecy and Inflikted with Cavalera Conspiracy."

Seu set atual varia um pouco entre seu projetos solos Maquinado, Almaz e Nação Zumbi.

"I always carry a Dunlop wah, Phase 90 (Re-issue), whammy pedal, vintage 808, Blue Box and a box full of delays, compressors and choruses."

Throughout the video, a DigiTech Whammy Pedal can be seen on Dhani's effects board.

Peter Frampton uses a Digitech Whammy pedal on his auxiliary pedalboard, as seen in this video at (3:05). "It's a very nice pedal, it's got a very nice different sort of sound," Frampton said.

Photo of Jordan Cook's pedalboard (Jordan Cook performing at the Surrey Fusion Festival 2011). DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting pedal can be seen, third pedal from the left.

At 6:41 in this rig rundown video Eric Gales shows his Whammy on his pedalboard.

On Steve Hackett's official [website](http://www.hackettsongs.com/instrument.html), he includes the DigiTech Whammy Pedal in his gear list.

"We're uh... experimenting hahahahaha..."

The shape and the notable logo "Whammy" on the pedal are visible in this Gear Run, at the mark [1:44](https://youtu.be/1wYTENemH08?t=104)

In this photo if you look to the right you can see his pedal board. the only obvious pedal i can recognize is the digitech.

A Digitech Whammy can be seen among Joe's pedals, in this rig rundown video, at 19:10.

on this video at 03:45, Troy use this pedal

In this photo, a DigiTech Whammy pedal can be seen on Brynjar's pedalboard.

> I’m always searching for new sounds out of boredom. Every guitar player should fuck around with their tone, you don’t want the same sound all the time. And what I love about the Whammy is that it can do so much more than what it’s famous for. It’s actually my new favourite chorus pedal… I almost don’t want to give that secret away! Basically, if you stick it in deep detune and leave the heel all the way up, you get this really sweet chorus.

Phillip Magee, Kodaline's [Sound Engineer](http://gdriv.es/blaiseaudio) tweets a picture of Mark's pedalboard. The whammy can be seen in the lower right hand side of the board.

one of his standard pedals

In a Box II - Her Lies

In this pedalboard photo posted by On on his Instagram account, one of the pedals on the board is the DigiTech Whammy.

@ 0:56 of this performance with "Los Angeles Azules" We see the whammy at Jay's Feet.

uruha use the whammy almost in all his songs hear the start of the solo and the second 45

"Brian lent me his Digitech Whammy pedal seven months before we did Lose, and I immediately wrote "Laramie," which uses the Whammy pedal in the big shoegaze section in the middle."

Nels Cline gets crazy effects out of the Digitech Whammy pitch shifting pedal, as demonstrated in this Premier Guitar interview at (31:00).

According to Guitar Geek's 1991 rig diagram, Butcher used the first generation of DigiTech Whammy pedal.

This image comes from [this article from *Pro Guitar Shop*](http://proguitarshop.com/andyscorner/prince-the-unsung-guitar-hero) where they write "Along with his love of Boss effects, Prince is a regular user of the Digitech Whammy, [Dunlop Crybaby Wah](http://equipboard.com/items/dunlop-gcb95-cry-baby-wah-wah) (though he has been known to use a Colorsound Wah as well), and [Line 6 MM4](http://equipboard.com/items/line-6-mm4-modulation-guitar-effects-pedal) modulation modeler."

The Whammy was on his pedalboard at 5:17.

In this live clip he's using some kind of octaving effect, with excellent tracking, and the first visible glimpse of a large red pedal is at 20:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7aBs66HXrU (It's gotta be a Whammy). Also here, a Whammy is clearly visible on the desk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVgbZdMdb0

This image from Pinterest shows Robert Fripp’s stage setup from 1999.

In this Facebook post, Big Gigantic shows off some of his studio, which includes a DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Guitar Effects Pedal.

Can be seen in his pedalboard in this photo. Used in the Age of Adz tour.

Whammy seen at bottom left of Dave's board.

In this interview, Stephen Malkmus says "I always remember those DigiTech Whammy pedals. I used to have one of those."

time to get those pedals organized

If You Pause At 0:36 You Can See Benjamin Using A Digitech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal.

Billy shows this in his video.

Can be seen at 9:00 in this video of recording the Little Hell album.

Showed up in a list of Alan Morse’ gear on the Spock’s Beard official website.

I use a variety of pedals these days including the valve driven Hughes and Ketner Leslie simulator, a whammy pedal and the excellent Line 6 Delay line modler.

Aaron North on the Digitech Whammy pedal admist a post made December 07, 2009.... "Apart from using it on songs like "Reptile", "Heresy", "Down In It", "With Teeth", etc... This very pedal was also responsible for all the ruckus at the beginning of the Icarus Line "Penance Soiree" album. The sound of about 47 different pedals feeding into this one, and then "dive-bombing" in time with the drum hits came courtesy of this lil sucker."

At the bottom of the rack, there is a DigiTech Whammy.

Pedal spoted on Jonsi's pedalboard, (Rig Rundown source)

The final pedal in his chain is a whammy pedal by DigiTech, one which he is said to not use frequently.

(from GuitarGeek) "A detailed gear diagram of Mike Schleibaum's Darkest Hour stage setup that traces the signal flow of the equipment in his 2009 guitar rig."

He is showing his pedal board at 7:00 and this pedal is on it

In [this interview with *Guitar World* magazine](http://www.guitarplayer.com/artists/1013/daniel-lanois-takes-his-studio-to-the-stage/51278), Lanois is asked, "How do you get that amp-being-driven-to-destruction tone on 'The End'?" Lanois: "That is as simple as my Vox AC30 cranked up to ten. It is an early ’60s copper top—not a top boost, with the blue speakers. I use the Normal channel. I was using my ’56 gold-top Les Paul with P-90s. It was the same one I used on Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind record. I think it is my best sounding Les Paul, the darkest sounding one anyway. For the initial performance, I was using a **DigiTech Whammy pedal** for some of the octave dive bombs. I was also using a cheap DBX DJ box that gives you an octave below."

In [this image from a studio session](http://www.effectsbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/rsmith17uq.jpg), Smith is adjusting the parameters on a pedal. His Whammy pedal is sitting on the far left side of the picture.

Spencer said If He could only have one pedal it would be his Digitech Whammy DT. He has said that usually only uses it for octave drops or for the de-tune feature which he uses often during Full Of Hell's live shows.

This pedal can be seen on Dave's board in this pic, he used this effect up until about the *Chuck* era.

Featured in this video with Reverb.

"Then I’ve got the Whammy pedal. I use this for a few things – one is so I can drop down to baritone tuning without having to switch guitars, it sounds like 85% good when I do that and then set can go faster."

A Digitech Whammy in the top right of this Instagram photo

Zach uses a DigiTech Whammy pedal, according to Guitar Geek's [rig diagram](http://www.guitargeek.com/zach-myers-shinedown-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2011/).

Clint uses a Digitech Wammy Pedal.

mentioned on his instagram.

In this photo, provided by Tim Grime, it is revealed that Haug uses DigiTech Whammy.

During the 2015-2016 'Purple' tour, John has been seen using this pedal

This pedal can be seen in the centre of the pedals. It can be distinguished from the 4, by the shape of the on/off switch

A DigiTech Whammy pedal is listed among Chris Rubey's effects, on Premier Guitar's [rig rundown](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20659-rig-rundown-the-devil-wears-prada).

Jeremy DePoyster uses a DigiTech Whammy pedal, according to The Devil Wears Prada's [rig rundown](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20659-rig-rundown-the-devil-wears-prada).

According to Premier Guitar's "gear list", Swan uses the DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting pedal.

Wowzers does he know how to manipulate effects!!

Pedal used by Stroud

Mr. Nick Bockrath uses the DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal on his pedalboard.

From the interview: "From there an Ernie Ball Volume pedal goes into a Digitech Whammy, then through an Eventide PitchFactor, into a Guyatone Overdrive driving an Ibanez Smashbox, into a Zvex Fuzzfactory, through a Guyatone Delay."

'a Whammy pedal for lunacy' he can be seen using this pedal a lot during their song, Tyrants.

At 16:47 the pedal can be seen being used by Merzbow

in the video clip you can see in the the croner a bunch of text. it says what there are using

Visible in this Twitter post by Kemp.

Emma used the whammy, as she says in this interview.

The pedal can be seen in this photo posted by Siouxsie Medley on her Instagram page. The photo was posted on 14th April, 2014.

When 1991, hide use this amp while record X's second album 'Jealousy'.

As you can see here, he uses a whammy pedal

Current whammy of Serge Tabachnikov

This has been a part of Bobby's board since at least mid 2015.

''New pedalboard set up for 2016. Finally got a new board and isolated power supply. Bish bosh bash.''

Vincent mentions his Digitech Whammy pedal in the source article.

The item can be seen 1:57 into this video.

02:52 left of his pedal board looks like a 5th gen whammy

Pictured here is Leschper's pedalboard that she uses with her band Mothers, at the Syndicate Lounge in Birmingham, AL on April 14th, 2016.

In [this image from the Veldt's Facebook page](http://imgur.com/a/iQq7U), we see Danny's rig, which includes a Whammy pedal.

At 0:01 you can see the Whammy at the far end to the right

You can clearly hear James using a Whammy pedal on the solo to Napoleon : www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd44xrnmJCg

For chordal and single note pitch shifting. Noticeable in MAMI's solos for *Take Me Out* and *Koisuru Universe*!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHgF2h4hnw

in this photo we can see pony s pedalboard

Henri's instagram post displays his entire pedalboard including his DigiTech Whammy.

Joabs pedalboard is pretty big ay

Seen also during live concerts.

It's definitely a Digitech Whammy. Not sure which gen. It's not a Whammy DT

On his facebook page

"Owned a couple of these over the years, always fun to use"

Seen on his Instagram

In the description

Adam can be seen with a DigiTech Whammy on his pedalboard in this photo posted to The Belle Game's Instagram.

In this video Tom exemplifies how he uses Whammy in the songs.

In this photo Nick Sadler can be seen using Digitech Whammy 5

GearFacts took pictures of Bill Bailey's live rig from a show. Gear is clearly shown in photo.

Jestin uses a digitech whammy pedal

We can see this pedal on his board.

Probably the most important piece of gear he owns. Using whammy pedal with his bass amp, Luke imitates awesome unique sound of the band. If you ever wondered where's the bass player hiding.. He's right in that pedal.

Visible in this Instagram post by Davids.

"I've been using this setup for a while now. TC Polytune > Whammy V > ehx nano grail > boss sd-1 > custom Pedal Projects distortion"

In this article Mark Bowen mentions some of his past and current pedals including the digitech whammy.

Found in her Roselia pedalboard that was posted on her Twitter account (second image).

In this image, Anthony is using his Digitech Whammy pedal

Mike shows his Digitech Whammy on his pedalboard at 1:58 in this video.

"I run two different setups in one: 'A' is the tsl and Peavey together, run through a tuner, a 'red threat', a Digitech Whammy, a Memory Boy delay, into a Twin City aby. 'B' is the dsl into a tuner, an octave, a loop station, a delay pedal and into the twin city aby."

Equipment used during recording: * Warmoth Custom Tele w/ Seymour Duncan pickups * Gibson Explorer * Mesa/Boogie Mark IV for most distorted tones * Carvin Legacy for cleans and some overdrive * Line 6 DL-4 and FM-4 pedals * Digitech Whammy

4:14 Talking about pedal order: "You've got a tuner pedal that goes into a wah pedal, that then goes into a **whammy pedal**. On the whammy the primary features I use are the octave up and down. I use the fifth harmony alot aswell. When i'm recording demos at home I use the octave down to emulate a bass and theres a deep and soft chorus on it that sounds lovely."

Gina Gleason of Baroness has been using a Digitech Whammy on her current pedalboard. (Early 2019)

DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting pedal seen in Donna's Instagram photo.

2010 : > Comme effets j'utilise souvent le Flexitone [sic] Carl Martin pour la saturation, un Delay Boss, une Whammy Digitech (ou la XP-100) et une pédale volume ; parfois un deuxième delay (Line 6 Echo park) et un vieux phaser DOD.