Digitech Freqout- is it a keeper?

mrkb

I'm interested in one of these, and am interested in the 'feedback' from those that have bought the Digitech Freqout - how have you found it? Has it stayed on your board and been regularly used or is it a bit of a one-trick pony? cheers.

firepaulmusic

Great bit of kit sat beside my Helix. Of course it's a one trick pony but it's a great trick!

mrkb

Thanks @firepaulmusic ;

damm73

The novelty wore off very quickly for me. I had the expectation that it would give infinite sustain a la Fernandes sustainer or EBow but that's not the case. The effect only lasts as long as the string is still vibrating and I found that long sustained notes/feedback would just cut off suddenly and unnaturally. 

I also couldn't find a balance of the gain/onset controls that I was happy with. It was always immediately apparent when the effect kicked in which again made it kind of unnatural sounding to me. So I didn't think I'd get much use out of it and have since returned it.  

No doubt many people will do wonderfully creative things with it but I'm happy sticking with fuzz pedals and holding the guitar next to the speaker for all my feedback needs. 

simonk

I liked it but didn't keep it. It's probably true to say the novelty wore off for me too and I couldn't really justify strapping it to a board for live use.

Cookiemonster

I swear i heard a band use it at Download. if so it sounded incredible

musteatbrainsrevenge

well if someone wants to move one on. I'm interested. I do wonder what they will do with this idea. I bet it won't be long until they make a new version with a few tweaks.

mrkb

Hey get off my thread - I was here first ;-)

Seems to be no new ones available at the moment, so Im waiting for a used one to appear. I only play with headphones/modeller at home so have no chance of volume derived feedback, so this seems a good option.

musteatbrainsrevenge

Sorry. How rude of me! 

ruoma

Sold it. It had a very slight buffer sound that I didn't like, and would indeed sometimes just cut off when hanging on notes till the very end. Not as violin like and flexible as an ebow. 

VJIves

Can it do really wild, untamed feedback? I've only really seen people doing tasteful stuff with it. I want to sound like the Chariot every time I stand on it.