Best pitch shifting stompbox; however, power supply grounding is a liability. Proceed with caution.

I've been using the Whammy Ricochet ever since 2020 on one single setting, and that is the Oct Up + Dry, to achieve octave effects to simulate a 12-string guitar for shimmer reverb effects.

Honestly, this used to be the best pitch shifting pedal that I could find alongside the Whammy V and Whammy DT. I really love the fact that the polyphonic tracking works really well, so much so that it blew the Failure Audio Axe-FX III out of the waters.

However, recently I've been dealing with a lot of issues with this pedal regarding the power supply - it's just not grounded well enough. Even with an isolated power supply such as either a Truetone CS6 or a Cioks DC7, I could tell that the Ricochet was struggling a lot. For a digital pedal like this, grounding of the power supply is paramount to the long-term usage of the pedal, and in this case, Harman failed to deliver on that.

And sadly, I'm not alone on this. A 30-second Google search revealed that even others have had the same issues with the Whammy Ricochet to the point where they had to return it. And given how Harman is no longer supplying Digitech products any longer, this issue won't be resolved anytime soon.

The pitch effects work as advertised; however, the power supply is unreliable. It's not roadworthy. I'd keep it just for studio work. Otherwise, avoid this pedal and spend your money elsewhere, 'cause it is a failed pedal waiting to happen.

Well thought out and fun pedal!

It offers the essential notes and octaves that can be used to really compliment your playing. it helps to understand that certain notes in the scale you're playing get off when you shift to say, 4th or 7th up. you just have to understand where you're at. to be safe come back to the root note and let it rip! I love the 5th notes especially. The main three notes in a triad can be raised to the 5th and sound very pleasing. Very Joe Satch. I mention all this because it's easy to just use it for octaves and miss out on using it as an extension of your playing.

Now the main reason you'll own this is to octave 1 or 2 up, and it sounds fantastic! you'll find yourself keeping the shift and return to a minimum but if you study the knob positions and relate it to your tempo, the slow shift is very smooth and rewarding to watch the lights as you hear you guitar sore.

A cool thing I didn't know it did was flip engaged and disengaged. Start at momentary "Off" and turn it on to your pitch you want, then set it to Momentary "On" and you'll stay shifted and momentary will be to shift into your original pitch. Stuff like that lets you know they programmed it backwards and forwards to be pretty seamless.

Now I'll keep the 5 star rating because it's digital and it's not necessarily it's fault but it didn't take fuzz well. I have a Fuzz face after the Ricochet and tried to get a octave fuzz sound and it didn't pull it off. I understand you need an analog octave for that, not a big deal. Another note is the Return part of the stack knob had a rough/sticky spot where it struggled to turn smoothly. This is probably just a small hiccup, but it was a little disappointing.

Ricochet is a winner! Buy it. It's a fun pedal.

I'm happy with this pedal.

Unexpected thing - this pedal is very good just as an octaver. And of course whammy part is perfect.

Great to boost your sound !

I use it together with my distortion pedal, to set up the sound one (and sometimes two) octave (s) higher, it gives you a sound between saturation and guitar Synth. Just great.

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Funny, effective, great sounding

I bought the Pitch Fork as soon as it came out because it sounded fine, though still wished the better sound of the Whammy so then the Ricochet came out and I had to buy it to get the sound that I always wished and I'm totally pleased about it. DigiTech should have made this since they released the WH-1 as I always wished this kind of design as I found the treadle obtrusive to my usual application of the effect. A future version would be ok with the features that this lacks compared to the Pitch Fork (the blending option, the dual mode, the extra intervals –yes: detune, thirds, etc.– and the possibility to attach an expression pedal), and of course that MIDI would be appreciated too.

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great!

super fun and inspiring pedal. it does the whammy thing well, obviously, and its small and takes a standard 9v power...so its a good substitute for the full whammy. but the real magic is using it as a glitch/sound design pedal due to the ramp controls.

The ultimate divebomb pedal

I love it! Van Halenize your fixed bridge or TOM bridge and say bye bye to Floyd Rose! Dying battery sounds, classic divebombs, motorbike sounds, you name it.

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My favourite pedal. Ever.

As the title would suggest, this is without a doubt my favourite pedal. It’s just a shame that it is such a niche sound and therefore I cannot really use it anywhere near as much as I would like to.

It’s my favourite pedal

Amazing for covering stuff from Tom morello and korn etc as well as not having to tune down