Digitech Whammy's?

[bobbass4k]

My student Loan's imminent, and who needs food or textbooks when there are whammy pedals?

So any opinions on how the wh-4 (or any of them, except the bass whammy) treats bass? I'd always assumed it would be terrible, being a pitch shifting pedal i imagine it would have to be designed for a specific frequency range, but purusing the pedalboard porn thread, i've seen a lot more wh-4's and wh-1's than i'd expect, so they must be half useable.

edit: i know there's the bass whammy, but i've been looking on and off for a few months and only seen two, both on the wrong side of £350

Edited September 13, 2008 by bobbass4k

[Kev]

the WH1, XP100 and WH4 all work great with bass

iv never tried the xp100, but the wh4 and wh1 i have owned. the wh1 is far superior in sound quality to that of the wh4, but of course you have to decide whether its worth the extra money. from what iv read, i think you should give an xp100 a go, get ebay watching

[Oscar South]

I messed around with my friends a while ago, works fine with bass. Be warned though, its almost entirely unusable in any bass playing situation.

[bobbass4k]

[quote name='Oscar South' post='283130' date='Sep 13 2008, 12:38 PM']I messed around with my friends a while ago, works fine with bass. Be warned though, its almost entirely unusable in any bass playing situation.[/quote]

I'm not worried about that, I play weird post/noise/experimental rock weirdness, for one of my old bands songs i played bass with an xbox360 controller.......a whammy's just what i need, i also play guitar

So any more opinions on which version? I know general opinion is the wh-1 sounds better than the wh-4, but is it so much better that it's worth paying more for a 2nd hand wh-1 than a new wh-4? Does the xp-100 offer anything more than the wah features? I've got a wah pedal i'm very happy with so i'm not too fussed about that.

cheers

[Kev]

xp100 does the harmonies that the bass whammy can do

if i was gunna get another whammy, id choose the xp

[cheddatom]

XP-100 is generally the cheapest one you can get off Ebay, it does all the whammy stuff, some cool harmonies you can't get on the WH-4, it has a footswitch to scroll through 6 user-saved settings, and you can do that while you're in bypass.

Also, if you're into that sort of thing, you could read up on the "XP-1000" and make yourself a fun noisy pedal!

[bobbass4k]

An xp-100's cropped up on evilBay, I managed to find some suprisingly helpful videos on youtube, a bassist doing pretty thorough play tests of the xp-100 and the bass whammy, all the vids are [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/10000Names"]here[/url], sounds pretty good to me, at least for what i'll use it for, so i'm gonna brave evilBay and give it a shot, anyone know how much 2'nd hand xp-100's usually go for? It is pretty battered, but allegedly it's all cosmetic, which i can certainly live with. Unfortunately the guy's listed it as rare.....so every two-bit well-off idiot who's never even heard of a whammy pedal will buy it just to sell it on for twice for price......which is why i call it evilBay

No real reason for the new post......just the thread could use some closure.....


cheers

Edited September 17, 2008 by bobbass4k

[cheddatom]

I got mine for £85 but that was a private sale, not an auction.

[Matty]

mine was £90 on ebay