Digitech FreqOut

WiresDreamDisasters

So we tried this in the studio today.

I'm not kidding you, this is one of the best pedals I've ever used. I'm so impressed with it. It sounds phenomenal and really does sound like real feedback. It even responds to bending notes.

I've not tried the thing I bought it for yet, which was to do something like: guitar > FreqOut > Octaver > Fuzz > Amp

But I'm dead into it.

zepp76

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

octatonic

Pleased you are digging it.

WiresDreamDisasters

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

paulnb57

Just checked a couple of YouTube reviews, sounds great, I reckon it would be superb for "Heroes"

Sassafras

I've only heard Andy's Tonereport demo but it does sound terrific. All sorts of possibilities with this amazing little box.

AlexC

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

There’s a review of the pedal on line where the guy is playing just that. Type Freqout into YT.

InactiveX

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

I would try an eBow on that one for the sustained notes, although I've never tried the FreqOut (and it does intrigue me!).

octatonic

InactiveX said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

I would try an eBow on that one for the sustained notes, although I've never tried the FreqOut (and it does intrigue me!).

I use the Freqout in place of the Ebow.
It is a better solution, especially for live, because it is less fiddly and you can easily skip across strings.

mrkb

I’ve got two, works great when playing modeller into headphones.

zepp76

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

AlexC said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

There’s a review of the pedal on line where the guy is playing just that. Type Freqout into YT.

That’s great, thanks chaps.

InactiveX said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

I would try an eBow on that one for the sustained notes, although I've never tried the FreqOut (and it does intrigue me!).

I have an eBow and tried it but it’s nigh on impossible to go from the eBow to picking the notes, plus it just doesn’t sound right, I need that feedback sound. This pedal could be just the job though. Another bloomin thing to GAS for!

hotpickups

You'd have to work the string to get it to continually feedback - It's not a FREEZE pedal. Very addictive  Also if you hit a muffled stray note it does get confused and can produce some weird sounds that aren't musical. However, with practice you learn to pick precisely when using it

Funkfingers

According to a recent interview, Jakko Jakszyk uses one onstage with King Crimson.

vasselmeyer

I love mine. I'm now straight into the PA from a BOSS GT-1000 and in-ears so there's no onstage volume at all and I can't get feedback from an amp so the Freeqout is an awesome bit of kit.

One small problem is that when the sustain on the note runs out, the feedback effect stops and if you're shaking the note and hit a stray one you can also lose the note. What I do is put it into a loop with a compressor before it and bring it in with a momentary switch. That helps with keeping the note going as long as possible.

Anyway...awesome pedal.

octatonic

vasselmeyer said:

I love mine. I'm now straight into the PA from a BOSS GT-1000 and in-ears so there's no onstage volume at all and I can't get feedback from an amp so the Freeqout is an awesome bit of kit.

One small problem is that when the sustain on the note runs out, the feedback effect stops and if you're shaking the note and hit a stray one you can also lose the note. What I do is put it into a loop with a compressor before it and bring it in with a momentary switch. That helps with keeping the note going as long as possible.

Anyway...awesome pedal.

I don't bother with the compressor, but I do use the momentary.
It really helps to have a clean fretting hand technique and some judicious picking hand muting.

Gulliver

I love mine.  Especially good if you hold it and slide around - it does a really synth-y portamento thing which I dig.

Managed to convince a bass player friend of mine to buy one and it's fucking ridiculous with a 5 string bass!!

InactiveX

octatonic said:

InactiveX said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

Nice one, do you think it could be used to do the feedback parts of The Supernatural by Peter Green when he was in John Mayalls Bluesbreakers?

I'd never heard that before but yes I think so. It's a great tone!

I would try an eBow on that one for the sustained notes, although I've never tried the FreqOut (and it does intrigue me!).

I use the Freqout in place of the Ebow.
It is a better solution, especially for live, because it is less fiddly and you can easily skip across strings.

Have you heard The Supernatural? There's definitely no string skipping at all on it!

I can see why it wouldn't sound quite right with the sustained notes though.

zepp76

You’ll have to excuse what might be a stupid question, but do you need to keep the foot switch pressed down in order to have the feedback sustain or is it a click on and click off once the feedback has come to an end?

octatonic

zepp76 said:

You’ll have to excuse what might be a stupid question, but do you need to keep the foot switch pressed down in order to have the feedback sustain or is it a click on and click off once the feedback has come to an end?

You can choose between having it latched or momentary.
Momentary is the best way for my style of playing.

If you have it latched then it will come on with each new note.
I like to have it set to fade in, like regular feedback would, when you step on the momentary.
On a latched switch it is too much.

WiresDreamDisasters

zepp76 said:

You’ll have to excuse what might be a stupid question, but do you need to keep the foot switch pressed down in order to have the feedback sustain or is it a click on and click off once the feedback has come to an end?

It does both. Momentary where you hold the switch to have the effect happen and then it bypasses itself when you release. Or you can have it set to toggle mode, where pressing it on will apply the effect to every note you play through it and you have to press it again to bypass.

zepp76

octatonic said:

zepp76 said:

You’ll have to excuse what might be a stupid question, but do you need to keep the foot switch pressed down in order to have the feedback sustain or is it a click on and click off once the feedback has come to an end?

You can choose between having it latched or momentary.
Momentary is the best way for my style of playing.

If you have it latched then it will come on with each new note.
I like to have it set to fade in, like regular feedback would, when you step on the momentary.
On a latched switch it is too much.

WiresDreamDisasters said:

zepp76 said:

You’ll have to excuse what might be a stupid question, but do you need to keep the foot switch pressed down in order to have the feedback sustain or is it a click on and click off once the feedback has come to an end?

It does both. Momentary where you hold the switch to have the effect happen and then it bypasses itself when you release. Or you can have it set to toggle mode, where pressing it on will apply the effect to every note you play through it and you have to press it again to bypass.

Brilliant, thank you chaps. Momentary will be the one for me then. Time to do some eBay searching!