Digitech FreqOut 5-stars Reviews

Freakin Amazing!

This is one of the most innovative pedals I have owned! Gives you excellent feedback effects and also very useful for texturing or adding ambience to your sound.

Just leaving my feedback here ;)

The FreqOut pedal is very cool. It does just what it says it'll do. It will not hold the feedback indefinitely for a single note (it corresponds to the sustain of your guitar), but it holds the feedback for a pretty good while, and it sounds real. It adds a nice spice to your sound.

Perfect when you are on modeler + IEM

I use it with my Helix Rack and we are on IEMs with the band and it adds a very nice touch to the solos when set up correctly. However you should take care to test it live before fully integrating to your rig as it can behave a bit different if you have extra wedges on stage and the FOH PA of course.

The build quality is very good, nice and sturdy.

pros:

makes your solos sound better by adding feedback you may miss from the tube amp times

cons:

takes time to get used to how this pedal will behave in a live situation

Very specific functionality...

It's safe to say, the FreqOut is not for everybody!!

I like playing with synthy/drone type sounds from my guitar and the FreqOut is a great addition to that type of set-up, providing feedback swells on slower settings or immediate feedback type sounds by themselves without the input sound (and various points in between!) - highly recommended!!

Easy option to have infinite sustain.

I have sustainiac, sustainer and ebow and everything have plus and minus.

FreqOut is definitely easist way, no need to build inside guitar or train special hand movements. Somebody complain that is not work properly (dying tones) but remember that you must have it just after guitar. Then works good.

One of a kind, good at what it does

Beautiful and sturdy looking, easy to use yet offering a lot of control.

AFAIK no other pedal does this pedal's trick.

As to the sound, I like it, but my experience with feedback is rather limited. Back when I played loud amps I never managed to get any pleasing feedback out of my rig, but this pedal does offer a whole range of useful feedback tones. So I really cannot tell how other, more experienced people will feel about the quality of the emulation.

It goes without saying that pedal sequence is important here (I prefer my frEQout up front, again YMMV).

Better than expeted

I use couple of Digitech effects ... this is their best in my studio

Best effect I've bought yet!

Unbelievable. As soon as I first discovered this pedal I knew I had to have it. Pete Thorn once said this pedal was made for soloing and he was right, it's a joy to use while tearing out a solo, be it chaotic or melodic, or both simultaneously.

If you're looking for an E-Bow type effect, where you can achieve infinite sustain while retaining a fantastic tone, look no further than this. Placed before distortion, it will provide a very ethereal tone, almost like a theremin; placed after distortion, it's as if you're stood in front of a Marshall stack with the gain on full, wailing banshee trapped inside your cab. It is mind blowing. Your solos will never be the same after using this.

Being able to select different harmonics is a brilliant feature. Personally so far, I'm not quite a fan of the Sub harmonic but it's good to know its there if I need it. Being able to toggle between latching and momentary mode on the fly is very convenient, but the real winner for me is the dry kill switch, leaving nothing but said ethereal wet tone. It's perfect for creating ambient pieces or textures.

I can't find an overall fault, but one little thing bugs me. I'm not sure if it's me, my amp or my setup but I found it doesn't work through an FX loop and has to be placed in front of the amp instead. Other than that, I cannot fault it at all.

Kudos Digitech, first the Whammy DT, now the FreqOut. Keep churning out the crazy element in these pedals, we need more!

Controllable feedback generator

Great pedal for creating controllable feedback sounds - no longer do you need to stand by your amp shaking your guitar!

Freqing freqed freakout!!!

Before it was just neighbors getting freqed out, but now thankfully it's just me. The feedback is worthy of the 5* feedback I am giving it.

There is this clever little knob that dictates the feedback range. It actually is a knob (Onset) within a knob (Gain). I have never seen a knob quite like it. They both rotate independently. There is a control below it (labeled Type) to select the type of feedback you desire for more harmonic stuff. This has got to be some niche variable pot if I have ever seen one.

Technical advice time...

Pedal placement is very important, place it first.

F I R S T ! ! !

Pickups make a difference too. I get more feedback from my P90 than my single coil.

It's True Bypass, I know this because I have tested it with other pedals that rely on an unaltered signal path from the pickups.

Not quite realistic, but that can be a good thing

I'm a home music producer working in a variety of styles. I have, in the past, had setups where I could record with real acoustic feedback but it can be hard to get exactly what you want. The FreqOut can get very close to sounding realistic and with a lot more control.

The unit feels like a quality piece of equipment, even though it has a folded metal construction rather than diecast. The control are small but smooth and work well, giving a reasonable range of control. I would have liked, perhaps a 4th harmonic and maybe a "Natural Wide-Range" setting but that's a bit picky.

The sound can be a bit "fluty" through a clean channel but feedback is usually for higher-gain situations where the distortion in the channel gives it a more natural tone. I have also used it for ambient guitar work and it works surprisingly well. It seems to handle chords by selecting one note to feedback. This is more like real feedback but I sometimes wish it could be used to sustain a chord the way it can a single note. Again I'm being incredibly picky here.

My perfect version of this would be a bit bigger with bigger controls for live use, more harmonic options including a bit less predictability and maybe a chord sustain mode (though that is a different pedal function.

As it is I find it useful and, with a bit of care, near enough to realistic not to sound wrong

Genious

This is a great pedal, you can literally get freaked out with the sounds coming out of it.

Fun for hours

Sound --

This pedal delivers the sound exactly as promised. The feedback created by this pedal sounds amazing.

Operation --

At first try the operation can be a bit clumsy. The UX isn't as straightforward as you might think it would be. Nevertheless it doesn't take a lot of time to learn to operate with it properly.

Build quality --

Robust and sturdy

Summary --

Great sound, clumsy UI

It does what it promises !!!

Great pedal for a great price

The Freqout is a great pedal that gives you the feedback that you get from a cranked AMP when you get your pickups too close to the speaker, without needing to go to war with the neighbors and without destroying your ears.

You can use it for long sustain and even like an Ebow.

It's great for an ambient sound and for some deep feel solos.

The pedal is easy to use and should go to the frond of your effects chain, I use it to enhance drones with my Fuzz and Reverb.

The controls are very simple and it's easy to figure everything out right out of the box.

-The "Momentary" switch, controls what the mail bypass switch does, switching from a simple push and play to sort of an expression pedal.

-The "Dry" switches the dry signal of your instrument on and off, meaning you can switch it off and get only the feedback, this in my opinion is the most fun feature of the Freqout as it makes for some great experimentation with different pedals.

-The range knob controls the onset of the feedback and the overall gain.

-The Type knob controls the type of feedback you can get from the pedal, from a sub octave, 1st to 5th, and a natural high and low sounds.

This pedal is actual true bypass, as opposed to older Digitech products and it sounds great. It's also, like older Digitech producs, built like a tank and looks like it will serve you for years to come.

The only issue that I found with the pedal is when you switch it to momentary mode, it seems like the pedal squashes the sound a little bit and brings the volume down slightly.

Fantastic device | 5+++

When a guitar becomes something truly great! :) It's difficult to explain how great device FreqOut is. Must have!

You should try this one!

I?ve been investing infinite sustain at low volumes for over two decades now and I?m positive that this box is a wonder. Even when I distrust that this kind of thing could produce something organic and natural, that fear proven to be very wrong. I expected some refinement from the old Boss feedbacker/Distortion and ended up with something more close to a Fernandes Sustainer. If you manage to apply this tastefully, this might be the most interesting tool that I?ve found in many many years. Even when our choice of pickups and amp will affect the outcome (remember that this is not a mechanical device, so it depends on the vibration of the strings of your instrument to operate, not adding to that vibration -say like a Sustainer-), is not possible to say that the sound you?ll hear is bluntly artificial. Even when it moves a tad aloof from natural sounding, if that happens, it still sounds VERY musical. It even passed the tough test of playing clean with flying colors! If you are into infinite sustain (in a home studio environment in particular) this IS the effect to get! Flexibility of features is impressive (surpassing the Sustainer, the Sustainiac and everything else I own) and bulding quality is parallel to the best of stomp pedals (well, exception made by the traditional Boss). I could not be happier with this. Just get one as soon as you can!!!

Wow ...

It is it!!!

I was waiting fo that kind of product for a light years and I got it - perfect sounding effect, which can change everything in guitar playing ...

Excellent

This unit is exceptional in every way. The most fun I have had with a new pedal in many years.