Ahhhhh Freqout :)

hotpickups

Just wondered if I could ask some Digitech Freqout users out there. I've been kindly loaned a Freqout pedal just to see if I like it and if I do I can purchase it. Just a question though. Can anyone get the Gary Moore type sustained notes out of it or is that going too far far this pedal? I know it's not a freeze pedal  but thought I'd be able to get a longer feedback sustain than I'm getting. It seems to die in a crackly haze on some settings such as the Nat Harmonic setting, when the signal starts to die I guess?

Is this normal?

EricTheWeary

I’ll just ask the usual is getting enough power question. Is it getting enough power? About 50% of all internet discussions around the Freqout are about it not working as you think it will because it doesn’t have it’s full 235ma. 

hotpickups

EricTheWeary said:

I’ll just ask the usual is getting enough power question. Is it getting enough power? About 50% of all internet discussions around the Freqout are about it not working as you think it will because it doesn’t have it’s full 235ma. 

Plenty of power yes. Being powered by a Zuma from one output. All works as expected just wondered if it was normal with the above explanation etc?

hotpickups

No one else? Maybe it's quite normal then. I like what it does what I've found so far

meltedbuzzbox

Didn't Gary use a cranked Marshall and a guvnor or something? 
The end result was a shit tonne of gain either way

vasselmeyer

Saw your PM as well but I've been at the Huddersfield jam and haven't been checking in.

That's normal. Its a feedback simulator and it needs a tone to generate the feedback and if your fretted note dies off, the feedback will also die. If you put your compressor before it you'll get a longer note. You can also raise the gain control on the pedal itself.

I use mine to start feedback more easily at lowish stage volumes and then normal physics takes over!

hotpickups

Awesome guys. Thanks

VJIves

I would very much like to hear the Freqout into a Thermae, so if someone with both could get on that for me, that would be great

hotpickups

VJIves said:

I would very much like to hear the Freqout into a Thermae, so if someone with both could get on that for me, that would be great

Id like to know what a thermae is now too Is it another OD pedal by any chance

VJIves

If only life (and pedals) were that simple. It's this:

Just imagine the feedback being scattered off in different sequenced pitches.

hotpickups

VJIves said:

If only life (and pedals) were that simple. It's this:

Just imagine the feedback being scattered off in different sequenced pitches.

Blimey that'll be beyond me LOL