What does a whammy pedal do?

[joelap]

Re: What does a whammy pedal do?

The job of the whammy pedal is to make your guitar sound like Space Invaders.

I have an XP100 that should have sold for 150 on ebay but a deadbeat payer decided he wanted to piss me off. It'll be back up this thursday.

I love the whammy pedal, but I'm going to just wait and save up until I can get one of the originals instead. Might be a while, but it'll be worth it.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: What does a whammy pedal do?

Whammy pedals are like talk boxes: you can only use them a very, very little bit before you start sounding like a ripoff/dumbass, and they both cost way too much to be used so little.

Daron from System of a Down said he doesn't like to record with effects because it makes the song sound cheesy or dated. Whammys (and talk boxes) are an excellent example of this.

 

[Imp]

Re: What does a whammy pedal do?

oh, and system of a down never sound cheesy on record hehe

it depends how the use of the effect comes across to the listener - you might have said the same thing about the very first trem/vibrato system (strat or bigsby).. its only because players used it in a subtle way, instead of 'hey, look what i bought!' kind of thing..

tom