DigiTech WH1 Whammy

I am giving it a 9 for one reason. You have to bend over to adjust the settings. Not a big deal though really.

I am using it with lots of old and new pedals. With a 70s Mustang guitar. It is not noisy compared to some. The only thing I can really say is that everyone whines about the sound of the other Whammys when they really dont track all that much better set high or low. Only the between settings are better on this one. Shifting up and down sounds great on these old ones. Like a machine powering up or down.

A 7 because the pedal works fine, ITS JUST THE DAMN POWERSUPPLY THAT IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE power supplies. They are always getting lost and breaking. I hate them so much.

Never.

I play my own songs and Ive been playing for a few years. If it were stolen, Id have to buy it again because it is important to the sounds I use in songs. I love the sounds it makes and it really is annoying and attention grabbing. Music needs to move ahead. It is boring now and people need to use new tools to write new music. I hate to sound mean, but Tom Morello is not a good guitar player or songwriter. He is a hero of teenyboppers, but so what? Every Rage song sounds the same. They should have wrote like two like that and then moved on. I am all for expression and music, but I cant help but get a little annoyed sometimes about everyone kissing Tom morello and the dude from Radioheads ass. I saw a street performer using this pedal and he used it so incredibly that it blew all that Rage crap away. You know once in awhile when you hear a new band and you go "oh my god, this is the new big style of music, this is what its all about" and you feel that everything is suddenly unhip? Well he was doing that. All I get from Rage is the same old same old. If you kids out there want this pedal for Rage sounds, buy a new cheaper one and save your money for other stuff. Chances are you will not need an expensive Wh1 when its lying around after Rage becomes uncool. Hey, Ive got an idea, why not upstage your own idols and make some new sounds?!?!?!? Hell yeah! Start a new band that blows away all this new garbage. Fill your songs with heart and creativity (plus a little mad genius), not Rage riffs changed around a little with a new name. Thats the ticket! Anyway. Buy this pedal because it has a million uses that no one popular is coming close to raping yet. Oh yeah, its a cool red color too.

Absolute dead simple! I use it only for my U2 sounds and you can easily get out that dirty sound of "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me" or "Even better than the real thing" or even "Gone"! Very easy as everything is done with one knob only!

Perfect! As this is the only model, which does work analog you have no gaps in pitch shifting as you have on EVERY OTHER WHAMMY MODEL MADE AFTER THIS PEDAL! That's the reason, why I'm still using it! It is sounding natural and not synthetic!

Mabye I have only a "Monday-Production" but I have this unit broken really every 2 hours!!1 I pisses me off! I send it back to Digitech now since 2 times and it always got corrupt connections on the motherboard! Sorry guys, but this pedal is really the most unreliable I ever owned!

I send it back to them 2 times, and it took me always around 8 weeks until I got it back! The price could also have been lower! And in fact: these problems I had always came back after half a year!

It's THE ONLY ONE Whammy pedal! All other models are shit for dirty sounds you need to playing Whammy like U2!!! And all other models do have these gaps! This model has it not! And that's unique to it!

Plug and go. Special adaptor only. Duh.

The harmonizing is for single notes only pretty much but this model sounds far superior to the later ones, which is why Digitech reissued it. PLus, it doesn't kill your input signal like the new ones do.

This would be the first pedal I would pick up to use in a fight. Its damn tough. My only complaint was that the setscrew for the pedal keeps working its way loose and when it does, the pedal doesn't sit quite right and therefore doesn't stay in the down position all of the way on its own. You have to keep your foot on it lest it pop up and start giving you the wrong notes. But I've been playing shows and touring with this thing for 4 years and its been nearly perfect.

I bought mine without the special adapter and had to order one. The guy was super nice and it came in 2 days. They didn't rape me on the price either.

The octave up/down and the detuning are the best features. The harmonizing is kind of a cheesy effect in general and sees much less use on mine. These things got pretty popular when that guy from Rage Against that Machine used one, right? I've heard him use it and you can get much more creative than he does with it. He's all flash. You can actually use it for something that sounds good.

Out of all the whammy's Digitech made, this one is the easiest to use, in my opinion. The 1/4 inch jacks in/out jacks are on the sides, instead of on top. This makes it easier to use short patch cables between pedals. I think the only difficult thing, compared to the other two whammy's, is that you can't change settings without bending over and turning the knob. Otherwise very simplistic and easy to use.

I think the sound quality is slightly behind those of the newer era, but that's what makes it cool. I like analog better than digital, and this one's analog. The pitch bending is not as true, but it sounds warmer than the newer ones.

I have never had a problem with my Whammy(knock on wood). It is a great piece of equipment. It's much more sturdy than the Whammy 2 or the XP-100. The on/off switch is just a little button like old MXR pedals, and the selector is a rubber knob mounted on a pot. The casing is metal, so not much to break.

I have never dealt with Digitech for repairs of this unit.

I have owned all 3 Whammy's in Digitech's arsenal, and this is the best one by far. I'm really in to Rage Against the Machine, and as you know Tom Morello uses this pedal. It is at times brilliant, and at other rimes raunchy, but it always delivers just what I want. If you get the chance to find one, don't hesitate to buy it. If the price looks to steep, just remember, IT'S DISCONTINUED, so get it!!!

This pedal makes me sound like I actually know how to play! It is incredibly easy to get a simple, rich effect out of it, or you can spend a lot of time getting used to some of the more obscure settings for some truly unusual sounds. I have no manual for mine, am using it easily without it. I don't really want it...

I am using it with a variety of instruments however I prefer hotter pickups as I can get some great forced feedback in ear-bleeding range with them. I have 6 different amps, varying quality from a Silvertone to a HiWatt 1/2 stack, and it sounds cool through all of them. I have 200+ pedals, and I haven't tried anything that wasn't kinda cool. It sounds absolutely ungodly with an EH Micro-Synth...

The only pedal this ridiculous company EVER made that I would use. It is built like a tank and deserves it's place in my board. I would NOT use any pedal made by Digitech, though, woithout a backup... especialy as this one is central to some of the effects I produce.

I have TRIED to deal with these a**holes on 3 separate occasions to try to get a manual, and they are unquestionably the biggest JERKS on the planet. Absolutely no interest in customer service. I would LOVE to meet their C.S. manager... It's what I do for a living, and if ANYONE in my dept. treated customers like that, they would be fired or KILLED.

Very effects intensive instrumental music. Think Trans Am or Tortoise, or maybe some of the more sane Zorn material... only not that good...I have been playing for 26 years. I have 3 now and would buy all I can lay my hands on, but not for 500.00! It is far and away more usable than the whammy-wah, not to mention more controllable. There is nothing else like it anywhere. I really love this box!

there is only one pot to turn to get all the different whammys and harmonies and a bypass switch. very easy and easy to bend down and change between songs.

i have a fender hot rod amp and an ernie ball axis. the effects are very good and there is no noticable lag with the harmony's (unlike my boss hr-2). The whammys are very smooth. In my opinion this is the best whammy/harmonizer pedal ever made. however, harmonies (with this pedal and with my boss harmonist) never seem to sound good with my rat or tube king distortion pedal they sound like a trebly chainsaw on some settings. Still very good sound quality though.

Its small and in a thick metal housing. there is not much to go wrong although im sure digitech would have nothing to do with me if it did break down.

dont know

These are semi-hard to come by and i feel that the price has been blown out of proportion because they are no longer made. They are the best whammy floor pedal ever made so i guess they are worth it. i paid $250 for mine and some people were asking 350-550 for these.

For use with bass... This thing truly allows the bassist to step out and massively encroach on the guitarists sonic space. There aren't any editable patches, but the chorus it comes with has an expression pedal detune, and there in an Octavia functionality in there. The sound is somewhat synthetic once detuned, but it adds a nice extra bit of attack to the sound. Simplistic design won me over though... It's just too easy!

Trace Elliot AH250, with Trace Elliot 4x10 Cab. Warwick thumb 5, and streamer 4 fretless.

Doug Wimbish uses the pedal to great effect, and synthesizing his sound becomes very easy.

Some of the harmony detunes are pretty useless on bass...

Aluminium casing ensures that the pedal lasts. Had mine for 6 years now, and it's still going very strong.

However, I've gone through about 1 power adapter a year. They really need to improve the power supply scheme.

They were OK, but the turnover in Australia on repairs is pathetic!

A must for any bassist wanting to be a little inovative.

easy.

- Does whammy up a full octave, 2 octaves, down a full octave, 2 octaves, and up-and-down a full octave.
- I found it easy to make nice sounding slide-guitar or b-bender type bends, its pitch shifting is much smoother and better sounding than the RP-12s that I have used. Same effects I found on the RP-12 patches but a lot better sound quality, it sounds analog instead of digitized. I don't know if inside it really is analog or has an A/D D/A....anyone wanna tell me?
- it has a lot of settings but you do have to bend down and turn the knob a notch to change setting. all the harmonizer settings are set to musically useful intervals --these are the settings I found I could make 'country music' slide sounds with.
- has one setting that is just like a chorus pedal
- has one setting that sounds like a Leslie, like the freaky sound on "Black Hole Sun" during the verses (a chorus pedal will do that too if you set the speed fast).
- with the whammy up 2 octaves you can sound like 2 cats in a fight....I had fun doing a *strange* intro to Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" :-).
- the whammy down 2 octaves let me make dark brooding background sounds that I'd normally make on a synth.
- the harmonizer settings, if you set the pedal at a position and leave it, can give you the standard Brian May type thing; but note that this is not an 'intelligent' pitch shifter; it does intervals but not scalic.
- NOTE, as with any pitch shifter I've ever used it works great with monophonic lines, and this one also seems to do okay with duophonic lines, but chords won't work well. Chords can make sometimes useful nasty destructive sounds for special effects, but it can't track that many notes to actually pitch-shift the entire chord properly.

built like a tank. NOT built like an RP-12.

This thing couldn't be simpler: A rotating pot to choose your effect, a pedal to use it, and a bypass. Nothing digital, really straight forward.

I use an Ibanez RG through a Marshall JCM2000 DSL half stack. I also have a Crate GX1200 half stack and use a Crybaby Wah and an EQ pedal. It sounds awesome with this setup!! The squeals and strange sounds are perfect for any guitarist who knows that there's more to electric guitar than just shredding away at those cliched riffs. The detuner sounds cool when you play harmonics and the whammy settings are all pretty spectacular too. You can sound like a DJ or synthesizer, or just play really high notes. The effects are very potent and noiseless. An audience member doesn't have to strain their ears to hear this thing.

I've only had it for 2 days, but it's built like a tank

This pedal is the bomb for any hardcore/alternative/metal/hip-hop guitarist...it does it all. It lets you stand apart from all the other guitarists. If I lost it I'd cry for days cause it's so hard to find an original whammy. If you can find one, BUY IT!! You won't be sorry. There's nothing I dislike about it. The pitch shifter is absolutely incredible.

Using this is a piece of cake.. switch it on... turn the knob for different effects, and use the built in expression pedal to mainpulate the effects.

I am using a tom anderson drop top guitar, going through my digitech whammy 1 pedal, into a mesa/boogie triaxis, and into the fx loop of my Gallien Krueger Backline 100 amp... and may i say this sounds really awesome! im very surprised at how quiet this pedal is... and it seems to have true bypass. all the effects sound really awesome.. it does various pitch shifting, and also does tons of harmonies. This is a great pedal to use when doing rage covers, i also use it for my own songs and also some satch songs.

i can totally rely on this pedal. its built like a tank.. full metal casing.. no cheap plastic/metal alloy here.

never dealt with digitech.

this is an awesome pedal for those wacked out sounds. you can just go totally nuts on this pedal, and you can be very innovating. I have been playing for around 4 years.. and my styles include satriani, dream theater, metallica, rage, ingwie, vai, and many others. if this was stolen or lost.. i would probably have to hunt the person down... (these pedals are hard to come buy). the reason the wh1 is so awesome is that it was made when digitech was actually making quality products... this was also made when digitech didnt make the pitch shifting software themselves... and it is in encased in metal instead of the new alloy that they use. this is a very awesome pedal for everything and if you check around and be patient.. im sure you can find one!