NAMM 2017: Digitech FreqOut and DOD Rubberneck
Two brand new pedals from haus Digitech.
Digitech have announced two new pedals already this week (with more on the way, apparently!) and oh boy do they look excellent fun.
First up is the FreqOut Natural Feedback Creator. Feedback generators are an effect that we’ve not seen a huge amount of in the coming years. Boss released the FB-2 a few years back but not to huge acclaim, this looks far more interesting than that one.
The FreqOut appears to offer a number of different frequencies that you can highlight, plus a gain control and the ability to turn on and off your wet/dry signal. Personally I think the coolest thing about this is the momentary option.
Plus apart from everything else, who doesn’t like a pedal with loads of lights and switches?
Next up we’ve got the DOD Rubberneck Analog Delay, with even more knobs and switches than the FreqOut. Digitech have done some of our absolute favourite pedals of the last couple years under the DOD name so we have full confidence that this is sure to fall in line with what we’ve all come to expect.
Real exciting! This week is getting better and better!
Musikmesse 2016: Digitech Whammy Ricochet and Dirty Robot
Digitech have done it again. Two new pedals that will cause some serious sonic disruption.
Digitech have announced two brand new pedals, the Whammy Ricochet pitch shifter and the Dirty Robot stereo micro synth.
The Whammy Ricochet utilises the Whammy pitch shifting effect and puts in a pedal with a smaller pedalboard footprint. Without the realtime treadle controller, the Ricochet bends the pitch of the incoming note at a rate determined by shift and return controls, allowing the player to bounce their sound up or down in pitch for incredibly unique effects.
With seven pitch selections: 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, Octave, Double Octave, and Octave+Dry, as well as a toggle to select up or down for the selected pitch, the Whammy Ricochet offers non-latching or latching footswitch modes. An LED display shows the pitch trajectory at all times.
One of our all time favourite pedals at GN towers is Digitech Bass Synth Wah, so when we heard that Digitech were announcing a successor, the Dirty Robot, we all got rather excited.
Containing two synth voices (common envelope-style synthesis and vocal formant synthesis) and seven controls, including mix, modulation, drift, sensitivity, start, stop and time, the Dirty Robot offers the player a huge amount of control, and is capable of producing some incredible analog synth-style tones.
