DigiTech Whammy Pitch-Shifting Pedal

"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." [Premier Guitar:](https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28930-the-raconteurs-jack-white-and-brendan-benson?page=3) > There’s a thing somebody sent me, because I use a Whammy pedal. I’ve always used it since the White Stripes, but this is a new contraption [called a Step Audio Riff-Step] that you can hook up to the Whammy pedal to bounce between four different settings whenever you tap it. That’s going from an octave up to a fourth down to an octave below to a fourth up or something. It just kind of worked out for that song in a cool way. Now I have to do it every time [laughs].

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

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.

DigiTech Whammy was in Billie Joe’s pedalboard during the concert at Whiskey A Go Go (09/10/2019). Apparently, it was also used in studio on “Take The Money And Crawl” and “I Was A Teenage Teenager” from Father Of All... album.

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

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.

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 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)

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'."

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.

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

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.

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](https://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](https://equipboard.com/items/line-6-mm4-modulation-guitar-effects-pedal) modulation modeler."

"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. [An interview with Perry done in 2004:](https://guitar.com/features/interview-with-joe-perry/) > I use a Whammy pedal, the red one. The first ones that came out, I kind of like the best. The newer ones track a little better, but it doesn’t have — they’re not quite as raunchy as the older ones. So I guess they did another version of the red one, and it’s pretty close to the old ones. But I still use the first or the second one that I got.

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.

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

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

the pedal is seen in this rig diagram

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.

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).

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

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

Blaster use it to the song ANG PINAGMULAN in japan 2020

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

time to get those pedals organized

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

Visible in this Instagram post by Davids.

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."

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

The Whammy was on his pedalboard at 5:17.

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

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

As you can see here, he uses a whammy pedal

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/).

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

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."

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

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

Between BOSS tuner and Electro-Harmonix Micro Synth

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

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

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

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

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

Clint uses a Digitech Wammy Pedal.

Seen w/ whammy at Sleater-Kinney show

Pedal used by Stroud

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

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."

Billy shows this in his video.

"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."

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

"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."

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.

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

Part of his live rig with Marilyn Manson

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

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

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

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.

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

He's talking about the DigiTech Whammy

Mat uses this pedal live as well as Sean It is part of wss signature sound with it being used on record so much

"Here are the pedals that are on my board right now: DigiTech Whammy Wah (I wrote an entire record using one setting on 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

Wowzers does he know how to manipulate effects!!

A Digitech Whammy in the top right of this Instagram photo

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.

In a Box II - Her Lies

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 image, Anthony is using his Digitech Whammy pedal

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

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

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

Current whammy of Serge Tabachnikov

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.

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).

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."

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

Listed on the website.

in this photo we can see pony s pedalboard

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

Whammy seen at bottom left of Dave's board.

> Fun gig in #oswestry today so made up this board for it. @ehx #memoryman #hazarai 4got how good it is! 4 drives, all stack well esp @lovepedalcustomeffects #amp50 with @fulltoneeffects #ocd gen2 I think with blue light @spacemaneffects #polaris mindblowingly good! and @bondieffects #sickas most beautiful pedal in my collection @oldbloodnoise #signalblender where have u been all my life! Parallel mixing my #procession and #memoryman at the same time via x2 volume pedals on the floor @digitechfx #whammy5 always on my board @radialeng #elevator non more better boost 😝 @retrosonic_pedals #chorus stereo edition makes me sound like #alexlifeson 😝 I wish @redwitchanalogpedals #moonphaser my go to #phaser Oh! And my @gibsonguitar #flyingv in gold sparkle of course! With gold @martin.sims LED’s That’s all !

(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."

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

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

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

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

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

Stephen can be seen with a digitech whammy on his board

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

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

Red pedal on board

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

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).

In picture referencing CHAOS album recording.

one of his standard pedals

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

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

> 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.

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

"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."

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

Seen also during live concerts.

Can be seen as apart of Asha's pedals used live.

Vincent mentions his Digitech Whammy pedal in the source article.

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

On his facebook page

Seen on his Instagram

Seen in close-up of Adam's board

Seen in the background.

"I re-arrange my board before each tour, depending on what set we’re playing... Powered by a Decibel Eleven Hot Rod Deluxe and a few One Spots. I use each of these pedals through out our set, but the main ones in use are definitely my delays, reverbs, and the Whammy."

Jestin uses a digitech whammy pedal

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

**Interview with EarthQuaker Devices ** "...Okay, so on tour, I play a 1962 Jazzmaster with Joe Barden pickups in it. They’re Two Tones. And then my pedals: I start with a ZVex Fuzz Factory, then I go into a Digitech Whammy, then I have the Diamond Comp Jr., then I go into an [Electro-Harmonix] Mel9, and I just got a Greer Super Hornet, which I really like because it has a momentary octave fuzz switch. Then I go into a Boss volume pedal. I have two sides to the pedalboard: the side where I can control the volume of like, the Fuzz Factory, so I put everything that’s noisy before that, so I can be dynamic with noise stuff..."

Seen using when invited to play w/ Boris

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

Visible in this Twitter post by Kemp.

Visible on his noise-board at 2:16

Above the T-Rex Mudhoney, the 6th pic on this link confirms it's his board and not Jun-His' https://www.instagram.com/p/B_j8LJKCgFy/

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

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.

Can be seen on Campbell's pedalboard.

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.

In the description

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

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

Joabs pedalboard is pretty big ay

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."

For the recordig of limbo and more

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

"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."

At 3:17 you can see this pedal on his board

mentioned on his instagram.

“The Line 6 Helix is amazing - super flexible in terms of routing (compared to a normal pedal setup) and programming. It can integrate with other stompboxes easily, and can send MIDI to control Ableton Live. I also use Line 6’s M9 a lot for gigs and all sorts - it’s brilliant. If I had to pick a few pedals, though, it’d be the Digitech Whammy, EHX Memory Man and EHX Frequency Analyzer.”

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

We can see this pedal on his board.

Featured in this video with Reverb.