Traditional Pitch Shifter Placement

[starbuck26]

Greetings, gentlemen:

I've just gotten hold of a Digitech Whammy, and I'm having trouble figggering out where to put it in the line. The real question is... before overdrive, or after overdrive.

Not that I really give a shit, but I did check guitar geek. The two major players I know who use the digitech are Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead and Tom Morello from Rage and all those other crappy bands. Greenwood's is after, Morello's before.

Any suggestions? I'm going to experiment with it everywhere, but was interested to hear if anyone has anything they swear by.

cheers.

 

[Riffmaster]

Last time I used one live I went guitar>wah>whammy>Yamaha DG Stomp>chorus>Boss Blues Driver>Noise Gate>Amp.

 

[nubsy]

I still have my Whammy II, and the manual says to always use it first. Say what you will about manuals, it has always performed/tracked better first in line.

 

[starbuck26]

First impressions:

I placed it like this:

GTR --> Tuner --> Digitech --> Fulltone OCD --> Nova Delay --> Hot Rod Deville

When I engaged the Harmony function, root and octave up, nobody in the band other than me realized that it was engaged. When I harmonized with octave down, our bass player threatened to cut my balls off for "fucking with his frequency range."

THAT SAID: My general impressions were that I can make incredibly fucked up sounds with this pedal, and, at the very very end of practice, when I finally turned off my OD pedal, i heard that beautiful tone of "My Iron Lung" coming off my amp. There's something to be done.

Alas.

 

[WhiteStrat]

I'm sure the considerations for doubled effects (harmonies & such) are different, but for me, my Digitech Whammy is letting my foot do what my hand would do if I had trem on that guitar. In other words, I'm bending the s*#t out of notes.

So I put it in the same place a real whammy bar would be (or as close as possible)--first. Guitar>whammy>wah>junkity>junk>more junk>amp.