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POLYPHONIC PITCH SHIFTERS

HEAD TO HEAD

MORPheUS BOMBeR

VS DigiTech WhAMMY DT

Here’s a double whammy of pedals that’ll pull the rumble of dragsters

and squeal of orgasmic rodents from your hardtail guitar…

Words Ed Mitchell

164 OCTOBER 2011

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Summary of content (4 pages)

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Head to Head PoLYPhoNIC PItCh ShIFterS Vs Words Ed Mitchell MORPheUS BOMBeR VS DigiTech WhAMMY DT here’s a double whammy of pedals that’ll pull the rumble of dragsters and squeal of orgasmic rodents from your hardtail guitar… 164 OCTOBER 2011 TGR219.gear_hd2hd.
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Gear The craze for extreme divebombing that began in the 80s meant everyone wanted the tuning stability and string-dumping performance of a double-locking Floyd Rose. If that meant chopping holes in a vintage Les Paul Custom in order to fit one, well tough. Aping a revving dragster sound, such as on the intro of Mötley Crüe’s Kickstart My Heart, was apparently much more important than worrying about wrecking the tone and value of a classic.
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Head to Head PoLYPhoNIC PItCh ShIFterS MORPheUS BOmBER £239 Is this Whammy alternative even better than the real thing? iF YOU SUMMARY don’t try to do guitar effect. Like DigiTech’s the revving Whammy DT, the Bomber is dragster thing with the Bomber’s polyphonic. This means that you Dive Bomb setting when you can play more than one note at first plug it in, you’re taking life the same time and it won’t sound too seriously. Coaxing extreme weird.
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Gear Digitech Whammy DT HEAD TO HEAD £289 Is the original still the best? The S SUMMARY The Whammy DT takes a classic into a new era Whammy has long chorus effect, the intensity of been the go-to pedal each setting is made obvious when it comes to pitchbending. from the descriptions: Shallow The DT is the latest incarnation and Deep. Like the Morpheus, and features all of the modes the DT can simulate a 12-string that made its predecessors guitar (select Oct+Dry from the such a hit.