going to get Digitech Whammy II

[kelvin]

i am about to trade for a Whammy II.
just got a pic from the 1 i trade with.
i was surprised, i thought that the pedal was red.

anyway....
anyone has this one?
how's the sound and performance compared to the WH-1 original?

 

[some_dude]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

From the people I've talked to, it sounds good.

Apperently, the Whammy was made by a different company than the others that followed it. The Whammy 4 is arguably the closest when compared to the original. Not that that makes the Wh2 bad, just different.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

I don't think that the picture you posted was big enough!

 

[kelvin]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

what setting does this have and does not have compared to the original?
the dive bomb feature is not in this right?

 

[some_dude]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

The original has more harmonizing settings (9 total), plus the deep and shallow detune settings (located above the pitch shifting settins if you find a pic of one).

The WH-1 doesn't have a divebomb setting. They added that on the WH-4. I think they also added the drop-tune setting on the WH-4, but that's just a guess.

 

[kelvin]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

i see...
but what is the deep and shallow detune settings?

 

[some_dude]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

No idea.

 

[Brow]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

On the Whammy II the detune setting adds a chorus like sound to your guitar which you can mix in with the original signal by using the pedal.

I have a Whammy II and have noticed that it kills alot of your guitar tone when it's in the signal chain, but I don't tend to use it that often, so it's not too bad

 

[jmh151]

Re: going to get Digitech Whammy II

I wouldn't touch it. I had a Digitech floorboard , I think the RP-6, that had those footswitches. Within 6 months, dirt and dust got inder those switches and they completely failed. Totally unreliable footswitches.