Whammy pedal - What does it exactly do??

[yuza]

I've never really understood how the whammy pedal works. I suppose it isn't simply a kind of a whammy bar you control with your foot. I've seen one and it has a lot of buttons and knobs!! I know it has a lot of other features..... but..... what??

[ShredHead42]

* * it digitally shifts pitches. * *it has various settings, like you can make it go up an octave, up two octaves, down an octave, down SIX OCTAVES (on the whammy wah, not sure about the orig.), and various harmonies of 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 38792ths (ha, not really). * *you can also do the original pitch plus up or down an octave. * *

* * plus you can go in between original sound and the fake sound with the pedal, so you get all the in-between notes. *

* * they're pretty fun, but i find i really don't use mine very much. *plus the digitech xp100's wahs suck b/c there's very little control w/ the expression pedal. *

[tagg 7]

Get the nice new red whamy pedal. I bought mine and spent 2 weeks making every sound imaginable, but when it comes to writing music for a band it becomes dificult. Unless your really into weird stuff it wont help that much, and your talking to someone that has a pedal board taller than he is

Its probably the pedal I have the most fun with. The sounds are kinda mechanical, and not natural to the ear, but it really is just fun.
well for me anyway

buzz