ever wonder how guitarists like tom morello, johnny greenwood, and jack white get their guitar to squeal? i used to listen to them and think "boy they must bend those strings hard" until i find out their secret. its called the digitech whammy and it's got to be one of my favourite pedals at the moment
the digitech whammy has a bunch of effects like dive bomb and drop tune but i think the raddest sound comes from the 2 octave up effect. this is the effect that you hear on all those white stripes albums and it makes the guitar squeal like a pig, and as unattractive as that may seem, i for some reason love it!
now if you want to hear the digitech whammy in full glory you can listen to 'elephant' by the white stripes and you will hear this effect all over the album. on 'seven nation army' you'll hear the drop one octave down setting and most of the guitar solos you'll hear the one or two octave up settings. and if you want to hear it mixed up with a thousand other effects until the guitar no longer sounds like a guitar anymore go and listen to anything ever done by tom morello. not only is tom one very intelligent individual he flipped the meaning of guitar playing on its mutherfuckin head
bang!
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