Your solos will never be the same after using this.īeing able to select different harmonics is a brilliant feature. Placed before distortion, it will provide a very ethereal tone, almost like a theremin placed after distortion, it's as if you're stood in front of a Marshall stack with the gain on full, wailing banshee trapped inside your cab. If you're looking for an E-Bow type effect, where you can achieve infinite sustain while retaining a fantastic tone, look no further than this. Pete Thorn once said this pedal was made for soloing and he was right, it's a joy to use while tearing out a solo, be it chaotic or melodic, or both simultaneously. As soon as I first discovered this pedal I knew I had to have it.
This unique pedal could make certain songs shine if used with care.Įdit 1: Since Digitech got closed down by Harmann, if you see one of these going cheap second-hand, I'd be inclined to nab it. It's pretty useless for rock/pop covers, but will lend itself very well to some of my own material, especially pieces composed with this effect in mind. At times it is very atmospheric and beautiful. I'm using the theremin sound quite judiciously (no-one would really notice it's there unless I suddenly turned it off), and it sounds really nice, adding a subtle layer of delicate texture, bubbling and tweeting underneath the playing, especially in conjunction with a delay. The straightforward traditional feedback sounds good enough to fool an audience. On the plus side, it adds feedback to ringing chords (and tracks bends and tremolo) much better than I anticipated. You might be able to coax a little more out of it by combining it with other effects, but those are the only two sounds you should expect out of the box. 1) adding a traditional feedback sound to sustained chords and notes, and 2) a sort of atmospheric theremin sound.ĭon't expect anything more than that. The Freqout is basically a two trick horse. Lastly, I wish I could toggle between momentary and latch mode with a double-click on the foot switch I dislike bending down to use the toggle switches. Anywhere else in the chain sounds like a tacky synth. The Freqout has to be at the front of my effects chain. It also generates a slight buzz from the power supply in my daisy-chained set-up, so consider using an isolated power source. On stage, I'm not sure how I would go about changing the settings without having to test it in front of the audience before starting the song.
I was hoping I could just set and forget it at one favourite setting, but it needs tweaking quite a lot depending on what you're playing and what other effects are enabled. This is the pedal's largest failure, I think.Īnother thing that bothers me is that the gain/onset needs to be set quite accurately. They could have at least made it fade out slowly. Eight seconds is fine 90% of the time, but maddening when you really do need the signal to continue for a little longer. It must have been a hardware limitation rather than a design decision. The short cut-off actually does annoy me, even though I was prepared for it. Do NOT buy the Freqout thinking you're getting a cheap ebow alternative. It doesn't even sound like those devices. It is definitely not a replacement for ebow or sustainic to any useful extent, because the generated signal abruptly cuts off after 6 - 10 seconds. Maybe Digitech shouldn't have even called it a 'natural feedback creator' on the box perhaps 'haunting, ambient theremin simulator' would have been a better description. I can understand the people who didn't like it, thinking it was something else.
I like this pedal a lot, but only because I knew what I was getting.
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