I have bought and sold this pedal twice before and thanks to you I’ve bought it again. I always have fun with it but then have a hard time actually integrating it into anything I play. But I can’t deny that it’s the source of tons of stupid goofy fun and who doesn’t need that once and a while? Maybe the third time will be the charm.
This is very cool. I have the Whammy V, Digitech Drop, and EHX Pitchfork and used to have a Whammy IV. (The power supply for the old Whammy IV was kind of a hassle and didn't track too great.) Whammy is turning into a favorite for me and the Whammy V does great. I like the detune mode on it. The pitch bend is fantastic and can either be used subtly or used like Tom Morello. I think if you can use the Whammy and learn to apply it to solos where people wouldn't recognize you are using it is great. This would include smaller intervals like half a step through a 5th up/down. I like using half a step to a full step down to emulate a whammy bar on my hard tail guitars to make a subtle depressed bar sound.
@@StompboxBreakdown the way it quickly goes up or down, seems perfect for it, normally i play it by sliding from open b string to 13th fret, but with this it could be done quicker i think but just letting it go up an octave and hitting the 1st fret
I have a bubble tron and had now idea of this sound…. Ordered this whammy pedal a couple of hours ago and was second guessing getting the full sized unit. Bigger is not always better. Thank God!
You forgot to mention this pedal has 2 modes: Classic and Poly, 1st one is the classic glitchy sound of the original Whammy and the Poly mode is for cleaner and pristine polyphonic pitch shift which shines a lot on clean chords and drop tunings!
@@StompboxBreakdown Yes, you could do another updated review even comparing it to the Electro Harmonix Pitchfork that many people use instead for polyphonic re-tuning, I think this Ricochet has more advantages, thanks!
What I can't find out is how instantaneous the momentary could be. My goal would be to use it as a tapping effect so I'd need an instant on off without any lag. Anyone know if this is possible? I'd go try it at the store but they're quite rare to find.
@@StompboxBreakdown yeah like when you played chords on 7:30, I would like to have my guitar tuned in D standard and pitch up 1 step to tune in EADGBE or vice versa, to not have to change the tuners everyday, used Ricochets are cheaper in my country than Digitech Drop, most of the channels that I asked this question they only used the Ricochet to do a review and dont have the pedal anymore
@@nicolasaraistrujak208 Haha, yeah it can work that way, I just tried it. Not sure if I'd trust it to perfectly shift the note for recording, but probably good enough for live/practice. Is it just a matter of remembering the drop-tuned string, or does the tuner actually not pick up on them right? I remember my Hardwire Polyphonic tuner has all sorts of different tuning modes, same with my PitchBlack Plus, but I could understand a TU-2 maybe not having that kind of reach.
Its the fault of my favourite bands having different tunnings hahaha. I only wanted to practice Metallica and Death on the same day, and using the tuners so much is a pain. Id thank your kindness if you could test this use in one song and give me your thoghts 😄
Had to look it up, but it certainly seems like it, though I'm assuming an actual full-sized Whammy, or other, probably rack-mounted pitch shifting effect. All the tabs I'm seeing note the use of an effect, not bending or sliding.
@@michael_caz_nyc Gilmour is famous for using the original Whammy WH1 pedal, as well as getting much smoother/less glitchy sounds from than Morello & Greenwood did with theirs, though they were embracing that aspect of the pedal. Gilmour may have updated to modern versions, but he is an iconic user of the WH1.
Haven’t finished the video yet - but so far 1 and a half mins in and this sounds like it does exactly what the regular whammy does but is more limiting….
True, you give up some control, but it also fits into a small spot on your board. I use Whammy for exactly one song (Like A Stone) so I find it pretty handy.
I have that pedal and I hate it cuz I sucks like %70 Of the amp tone and guitar , not even adding a buffer in the beguine and one in the end that pedal would sucks it all anyways, any tips? I need help
I always think Jonny Greenwood when I think of the Whammy. That style of pitch shifting is so fantastic in the right hands (& feet). A pedal I love that is similar is the TC Electronic Brainwave. It’s got a ‘Mash’ function for some vibrato effects that are great for a live setting, and it’s polyphony tracking is top-notch. I love my Whammy IV, but, like I’ve seen other people mention, the power supply is a bit of a pain, and the footprint is so large it’s impractical for a gigging pedalboard. I’ve always been intrigued by the Ricochet, I appreciate you giving us such a thorough look. I didn’t realize that it had an FX loop. I’ll bet you can really have a blast with that. I feel like your compositions are getting better with each video. Keep up the great work with the channel! Just curious, but do you have a ‘desert island pedal’? How about a favorite guitar you’d place above all others?
Thank you so much! I really appreciate all that. I saw the Brainwave the other day, definitely looked interesting. The Ricochet doesn't have an effects loop, sorry if I implied that somewhere. I was just putting other pedals before/after it. Maybe I should do a diagram of how some of the more complex effects chains are when I'm doing the demos. Desert Island pedal... I mean, before anything else, I'd go with a tuner, but assuming that's taken care of, right now it's the Keeley Monterey. It's a dual pedal with different modes, so that might be cheating, but it's got a tasty fuzz on one side, and Uni-Vibe, Auto-Wah, and Rotary on the other. It's quickly becoming my go-to lead tone pedal. For a single pedal, I used to play this open mic where a jazz guy would show up every week and blow everybody's mind using just a Tremolo pedal set really faint. I always admired that, and I think that I could be happy with just a Boss TR-2. Good question, I never really thought about that. For a guitar, I'm honestly in love with my G&L ASAT Classic. It's a custom build with a Classic C neck, and it's a semi-hollowbody but with no F-hole, so it's just super resonant and light. The pickups are super hot, which aren't always what the song calls for, but it's definitely my #1. For a while, I was lusting after a Mark Knopfler Strat my local music store had, though. I definitely got along with that, but I could never get them to come down to a price I could afford, then it sold :(
I use Whammy DT for transposition. I tune down my guitar by 4 semitones to standard C with it in some songs on stage. I also use it for 1 octave momentary pedal moves to create noise. I just wanted to purchase this thing for my alternative smaller rig that I need for traveling. I don’t understand (kinda do but not respect) why Digitech developed 2 different products, this and Drop. If this thing had all the semitones, there would be no need for Drop unless you use it as an octave pedal. Now, two pedals instead of one… Such a rig “downsizing”…
I’d probably just bend up a whole step. The pedal would help keep the increment more consistent but I wouldn’t want to have to think about my feet while I’m doing a solo to the top of my fretboard.
I never had a proper whammy pedal either I had really bad pitch shifters or I borrowed a friends korg tone works multi fx that had this pressure switch that you could do whammy like bends with though the tracking wasn't too great and now I have the digitech expression factory that has some of the best whammy pedal modes but it's a little wonky I hate the on and off switches on the ends of the treadle there way too sensitive and a I got boss harmonist that does the cool bends and can whammy with an expression pedal but none of them are much good for drop tune situations
Oh yeah, the Boss Harmonist definitely has *that* sound. I just remember when the first Whammy pedal came out, it felt like TV going color for the first time (not that I remember it, just imagining)
Oddly the whammy wah from the xp series was the first one I ever messed with at my local music store so I've always thought of a whammy as black or blue cause the bass version came in next
Got one of these a few years ago and love it. I never had the desire to put an actual gigantic Whammy pedal on my board but this does the trick!
the best video about how to use a pedal ever
Great review bud. I’m a new follower who will be watching all your vids.
Thanks for your time making these videos.
Hey, thank YOU for watching!
I have bought and sold this pedal twice before and thanks to you I’ve bought it again. I always have fun with it but then have a hard time actually integrating it into anything I play. But I can’t deny that it’s the source of tons of stupid goofy fun and who doesn’t need that once and a while? Maybe the third time will be the charm.
I have this pedal and never made it sound as cool as you did. I’m taking it out again and try to get some of the cool sounds you created.
Thank you so much. It means a lot to hear that. Definitely keep diving into it!
Very thorough as always, and excellent jams! Especially enjoyed that first one!
Thank you so much!!
This is very cool. I have the Whammy V, Digitech Drop, and EHX Pitchfork and used to have a Whammy IV. (The power supply for the old Whammy IV was kind of a hassle and didn't track too great.)
Whammy is turning into a favorite for me and the Whammy V does great. I like the detune mode on it. The pitch bend is fantastic and can either be used subtly or used like Tom Morello. I think if you can use the Whammy and learn to apply it to solos where people wouldn't recognize you are using it is great. This would include smaller intervals like half a step through a 5th up/down. I like using half a step to a full step down to emulate a whammy bar on my hard tail guitars to make a subtle depressed bar sound.
ok, this sounds like it would be perfect to play the doctor who theme
Capital idea. A missed opportunity on my part.
@@StompboxBreakdown the way it quickly goes up or down, seems perfect for it, normally i play it by sliding from open b string to 13th fret, but with this it could be done quicker i think but just letting it go up an octave and hitting the 1st fret
Great job man! More useful/informative than most of the vids I've seen. I will most likely get one, and use it for a week. Do you still use yours?
Absolutely! Yeah I use it for an octave kick up for Audioslave’s “Like a Stone”. It’s a great pedal
I have a bubble tron and had now idea of this sound…. Ordered this whammy pedal a couple of hours ago and was second guessing getting the full sized unit. Bigger is not always better. Thank God!
You forgot to mention this pedal has 2 modes: Classic and Poly, 1st one is the classic glitchy sound of the original Whammy and the Poly mode is for cleaner and pristine polyphonic pitch shift which shines a lot on clean chords and drop tunings!
Dang, you’re right. Not sure how I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out though, something else to explore next time!
@@StompboxBreakdown Yes, you could do another updated review even comparing it to the Electro Harmonix Pitchfork that many people use instead for polyphonic re-tuning, I think this Ricochet has more advantages, thanks!
Digitech! If there’s only one pedal I could keep, it would be my SC2 Valve Distortion.
I’ve got one but it needs a good going-over. It likes to slowly turn itself off after a few minutes of operation. Sounds great when it’s on, though!!
I'm a big fan of digitech and this chanel. I think electro harmonix slammi plus is the way to go when It comes to pitch shifter
I just use the octave up for that last note in a solo, or for just a quick stabs of pitch shifted fun.
What I can't find out is how instantaneous the momentary could be. My goal would be to use it as a tapping effect so I'd need an instant on off without any lag. Anyone know if this is possible? I'd go try it at the store but they're quite rare to find.
With the ballistics set all the way down, it’s basically instant, though I don’t know if it’s quite the tapping effect you’re looking for.
For a moment, I thought the thumbnail said "BORING". lol
Can I use the Momentary OFF to tune my guitar in D standard and play continually some Death covers??
Oh good question. You mean like to bring it up a step to tune into an EADGBE tuner?
@@StompboxBreakdown yeah like when you played chords on 7:30, I would like to have my guitar tuned in D standard and pitch up 1 step to tune in EADGBE or vice versa, to not have to change the tuners everyday, used Ricochets are cheaper in my country than Digitech Drop, most of the channels that I asked this question they only used the Ricochet to do a review and dont have the pedal anymore
@@nicolasaraistrujak208 Haha, yeah it can work that way, I just tried it. Not sure if I'd trust it to perfectly shift the note for recording, but probably good enough for live/practice. Is it just a matter of remembering the drop-tuned string, or does the tuner actually not pick up on them right? I remember my Hardwire Polyphonic tuner has all sorts of different tuning modes, same with my PitchBlack Plus, but I could understand a TU-2 maybe not having that kind of reach.
Its the fault of my favourite bands having different tunnings hahaha. I only wanted to practice Metallica and Death on the same day, and using the tuners so much is a pain. Id thank your kindness if you could test this use in one song and give me your thoghts 😄
That intro got me good, haha
Nice job with this Demo and explanation. Is this what David Gilmour used on: "The Blue" Live in Gdansk ??? oNe LoVe from NYC
Had to look it up, but it certainly seems like it, though I'm assuming an actual full-sized Whammy, or other, probably rack-mounted pitch shifting effect. All the tabs I'm seeing note the use of an effect, not bending or sliding.
@@StompboxBreakdown Thanks brother. He is such a Monster player = Mr. David Gilmour. His solo's are Epic.
@@michael_caz_nyc Gilmour is famous for using the original Whammy WH1 pedal, as well as getting much smoother/less glitchy sounds from than Morello & Greenwood did with theirs, though they were embracing that aspect of the pedal. Gilmour may have updated to modern versions, but he is an iconic user of the WH1.
Haven’t finished the video yet - but so far 1 and a half mins in and this sounds like it does exactly what the regular whammy does but is more limiting….
True, you give up some control, but it also fits into a small spot on your board. I use Whammy for exactly one song (Like A Stone) so I find it pretty handy.
I have that pedal and I hate it cuz I sucks like %70
Of the amp tone and guitar , not even adding a buffer in the beguine and one in the end that pedal would sucks it all anyways, any tips? I need help
I always think Jonny Greenwood when I think of the Whammy. That style of pitch shifting is so fantastic in the right hands (& feet). A pedal I love that is similar is the TC Electronic Brainwave. It’s got a ‘Mash’ function for some vibrato effects that are great for a live setting, and it’s polyphony tracking is top-notch. I love my Whammy IV, but, like I’ve seen other people mention, the power supply is a bit of a pain, and the footprint is so large it’s impractical for a gigging pedalboard. I’ve always been intrigued by the Ricochet, I appreciate you giving us such a thorough look. I didn’t realize that it had an FX loop. I’ll bet you can really have a blast with that. I feel like your compositions are getting better with each video. Keep up the great work with the channel! Just curious, but do you have a ‘desert island pedal’? How about a favorite guitar you’d place above all others?
Thank you so much! I really appreciate all that. I saw the Brainwave the other day, definitely looked interesting. The Ricochet doesn't have an effects loop, sorry if I implied that somewhere. I was just putting other pedals before/after it. Maybe I should do a diagram of how some of the more complex effects chains are when I'm doing the demos.
Desert Island pedal... I mean, before anything else, I'd go with a tuner, but assuming that's taken care of, right now it's the Keeley Monterey. It's a dual pedal with different modes, so that might be cheating, but it's got a tasty fuzz on one side, and Uni-Vibe, Auto-Wah, and Rotary on the other. It's quickly becoming my go-to lead tone pedal. For a single pedal, I used to play this open mic where a jazz guy would show up every week and blow everybody's mind using just a Tremolo pedal set really faint. I always admired that, and I think that I could be happy with just a Boss TR-2. Good question, I never really thought about that.
For a guitar, I'm honestly in love with my G&L ASAT Classic. It's a custom build with a Classic C neck, and it's a semi-hollowbody but with no F-hole, so it's just super resonant and light. The pickups are super hot, which aren't always what the song calls for, but it's definitely my #1. For a while, I was lusting after a Mark Knopfler Strat my local music store had, though. I definitely got along with that, but I could never get them to come down to a price I could afford, then it sold :(
I use Whammy DT for transposition. I tune down my guitar by 4 semitones to standard C with it in some songs on stage. I also use it for 1 octave momentary pedal moves to create noise. I just wanted to purchase this thing for my alternative smaller rig that I need for traveling. I don’t understand (kinda do but not respect) why Digitech developed 2 different products, this and Drop. If this thing had all the semitones, there would be no need for Drop unless you use it as an octave pedal. Now, two pedals instead of one… Such a rig “downsizing”…
It's crazy how the footswitch acts like an expression pedal. I'm looking to get one soon to pair with my Drop.
It’s so good. The Drop is so amazingly useful, too.
Canny pedal collection in the thumbnail that lol... Channel looks cool, I'll check out more, subbed.
excellent video 🤙🏻🔥
Would it be a solution to get the the tone of 24th fret on a 22 frets guitar ? For instance during a solo?
I’d probably just bend up a whole step. The pedal would help keep the increment more consistent but I wouldn’t want to have to think about my feet while I’m doing a solo to the top of my fretboard.
Wait, so it basically can act both as a digitech whammy and a digitech drop??
If you need to downtune in those intervals, yeah
Good review, really! 👍👍 But would have loved additional 5-10 minutes to hear more sound combinations!
Great demo! Hey, whats your name??
What’s your name? Guy
Like a stone solo in a nutshell (or pedal casing?)
Eeeexactly
I never had a proper whammy pedal either I had really bad pitch shifters or I borrowed a friends korg tone works multi fx that had this pressure switch that you could do whammy like bends with though the tracking wasn't too great and now I have the digitech expression factory that has some of the best whammy pedal modes but it's a little wonky I hate the on and off switches on the ends of the treadle there way too sensitive and a I got boss harmonist that does the cool bends and can whammy with an expression pedal but none of them are much good for drop tune situations
Oh yeah, the Boss Harmonist definitely has *that* sound. I just remember when the first Whammy pedal came out, it felt like TV going color for the first time (not that I remember it, just imagining)
Oddly the whammy wah from the xp series was the first one I ever messed with at my local music store so I've always thought of a whammy as black or blue cause the bass version came in next
Dig the shirt
Thank you!
while it is a great pedal, it sucks your tone big time :((
Rick O'Shea, that Irish guy?
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