DigiTech’s new Whammy Ricochet

The Whammy Ricochet guitar FX pedal is designed to allow guitarists to push their sound up or down in pitch in controlled or dramatic shifts. It offers 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.

There is also a latching footswitch mode so the tone can rise or fall to the selected pitch and stay there. An LED ladder shows the shift trajectory at all times. All these controls combine to create classic Whammy pitch shifting as well as new sounds never heard before.

The Whammy Ricochet provides two modes of operation: the Classic Whammy algorithm and Chords, the modern algorithm from the Whammy DT. The classic mode is suitable for single-note soloing, while the chords mode is best suited for the pitch shifting of full chords. The mode can be changed while the effect is on or off.