DigiTech FreqOut Natural Feedback Creator

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Welcome back to ProGuitarShop and ToneReport.com. Today we’re screaming with the FreqOut, from DigiTech. The FreqOut is a natural feedback creator that lets you generate natural feedback without any noise complaints or hearing loss. While most feedback techniques require a ridiculous amount of distortion, the FreqOut works clean, at any volume and even without an amp in the room. The FreqOut reads the incoming harmonic content of the signal, and gives you the ability to focus the feedback on a certain frequency range, for all kinds of creative feedback applications far beyond that of a simple roaring amp. DigiTech gives the FreqOut’s switch the royal treatment, by making it true bypass as well as switchable between latching and momentary modes. The Momentary mode is especially useful for players that want only short bursts of concentrated feedback. A handy Dry Kill toggle switch eliminates the dry signal for 100 percent pure feedback, which lets you sculpt the raw feedback with pedals for tons of extra textures. Two concentric knobs for Gain and Onset let you tailor the feedback to your needs, letting you adjust the flavor as well as the time it takes the feedback to get cooking. And just like all other DigiTech pedals, the FreqOut is housed in a rugged metal chassis that will last a lifetime of gigs.

[@learnerlearns]

"This guitar has the most sustain of any guitar... play a note, go out for bite, you come back... still sustaining." We used it on Lick My Love Pump.

[@gotohellaaron]

LOL!

[@michaelcraig9449]

Sounds like Spinal Tap or Kiss

[@ScottJamesHicks]

That’s quite correct. Our manager, Sir Dennis Eaton Hog, stipulates that each venue provides at least 6 freqouts and full size sandwiches backstage. Of course, we received 6’ tall freqouts recently. Can’t use those buggers.

[@adriancronin533]

Don't even look at it

[@anthonypinto9244]

This comment goes to 11

[@smalltownnightlife]

Digitech is on fire lately. I can't think of a reason to buy this but it does look fun. I just like that they're clearly investing into research and development and not flooding the market with a bunch of the same style pedals that have been around for 30 years.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Digitech was on fire this year @ Winter Namm 2017. They also have a New Analog Delay Pedal. I agree. They have recently . . . stepped-up their game, & are coming-out with interesting & innovative products.

[@JorisGriffioen]

Small Town Knife Fight it's pretty obvious really: they're looking for the next Whammy

[@acevaptsarov8410]

Actually this is insanely useful.... I've been going to hell and back to try and replicate the sound of a sustainiac with a pedal, and seemed to be impossible or very hard to achieve. But this pedal looks like it's doing exactly that! Worth a shot for sure, can't wait to try the FREQout.

[@davemorris1269]

Ace Music Factory Agreed! I had a Model B for years and it sounded great, but not remotely practical for a stage lol.

[@twinsmm1]

I can think of some personal reasons to buy it: Foxy Lady, Third Stone from the Sun, Zoot Allures (Zappa) to mention a few. I'm sure I could come up with many more.

[@ColinBrain]

Reminds me of that magical moment in Machine Gun on the Band of Gypsys album where Jimi holds the first bend of his solo for what seems like forever

[@richardvanbergen9429]

Best guitarnote in history

[@aidanjamesstevens5037]

That rendition of Airbag was brilliant! I love this pedal and I need it in my life. Digitech have been knocking it out of the park lately - totally fearless and beyond ambitious.

[@keithscott5580]

" I can't think of a reason to buy this but it does look fun." I can't think of a reason not to buy this! Feedback is a blissful expression of electric guitaring that is usually unattainable unless all conditions are right, meanig that you have to live without it most of the time, which truly limits your creativity...

[@eduardoritos]

If there's feedback, it's rock; if not, it's pop. I like ROCK.

[@Bigstinkyfart]

eduardoritos .. ok buddy

[@nelsonvontitfuk1471]

Tell Jimi hendrix that. Lol

[@crabbtrixexp]

@@nelsonvontitfuk1471 that's the thing the way hendrix used feedback was awesome, and it mostly came from the amp, i'm not sure you can capture what he did in a pedal. But maybe there's scope to do something interesting with the freqout, however i remain a pessimist, natural feedback is inconsistent, and i think that's its beauty.

[@nelsonvontitfuk1471]

crabbtrixexp Yeah, nothing beats the proper feedback through loud tube amps.

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Considering that most of us aren’t allowed to crank up to Pete Townshend levels to get feedback anymore, this is quite an ingenious little idea. May need to get one.

[@eph_kni]

i know everyone knows this but Andy really is one of the best guitarists out there right now.

[@joec1360]

I know most of these comments are 4 years old but from today's perspective with more and more people using modeling gear in digital domains it's the only way to go. Freq into Helix into reaper. BOOM!! And yes I love my Drop too. Digitech is killing it!!

[@patricklemire9278]

Just when I thought I was done buying pedals for a while THEY DRAG ME BACK IN

[@dudeabides3860]

every guitar‘s player curse and bliss at the same time

[@Mitchnagel58]

Whenever Andy plays any Radiohead in his demos, all the fanboys are like *OMGANDYPLAYEDRADIOHEADHOLYFUCKOMG.*

[@razurip]

Hank Hill I tell you what!!!

[@Jasonlimitless]

Hank Hill hahahahahah yep that's me.

[@juancaisinrainbows6844]

Hank Hill That's me for sure

[@NICKWAPPERER117]

Hank Hill lol it's hilarious

[@AlfredHugecokk]

A real Radiohead fan would say : Fuck there isn't any feedback in AIRBAG !

[@nunocarmona]

What a tone at the beggining!

[@cuda426hemi]

Takes balls of steel to cover Pete's Supernatural !!! Having said that, I hear the original was done with multiple takes and layers for the feedback to get right. This sounds thin when feeding back compared to real feedback.

[@TheJofrica]

Also, another nomination for Andy to be in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame

[@probindemufhoes42069]

0:44 that immediately sold me.

[@LordFuzzman]

Nice bit of Radiohead in there!!!

[@Psyfonify]

and it works fucking PERFECT for that guitar tone! omfg!!!! it sounds just like the recording. I mean, even cranking an amp it can be hard to get the feedback to sound so consistent and EXACTLY like the recording, depending on the instrument, amp, and room you are in! so fucking COOL, i NEED THIS PEDALLLL

[@davestone5963]

Are you talking about the opening of Airbag, which he does in a really interesting way because it sounds absolutely nothing like the original (which is a Shredmaster doubled by a cello)? He does get some sounds that are spookily like Ed, though. And by coincidence I was playing There There this morning: this pedal would make Thom's parts in that a doddle.

[@Psyfonify]

All i meant is when he played airbag, it sounded very similar to radiohead's recording and performance of it. Awesome pedal.

[@davestone5963]

Yeah, I agree it's an awesome pedal, but although he is indeed playing the same notes as Radiohead's recording and performance of Airbag, it is an utterly different interpretation.

[@joesatchton212]

I haven't been this excited for a Digitech pedal since the Whammy. Must. Try. Now....

[@GMoneyDon]

Joe Satchton hey man.Iam also adding the simi new digitech whammy ricochet pedal along with the freq-out in my pedal board..i also run a digitech ex7 expression pedal way cool pedal... check the videos on the ricochet.i got it on amazon with a power supply for $150

[@joesatchton212]

+Don Gilreath: Very cool man! Thanks for the idea and good luck/have fun with that stuff. :D

[@mwothe]

I bought a ricochet on a whim and love it. Wish it would do a half step tho, can only do a whole step (and more)

[@sduke39]

Dat Peter Green!!!!! This pedal will find a home on my board.

[@ryanholmberg6953]

Love that you threw that Radiohead riff in there

[@eyesintheskies]

Have just seen the guitarist from Pucifer make good use of one of these. They move all over the stage so he could get feedback without been by his amp. Slick and nifty stuff. And great demo as always

[@mr.champlinssciencechannel906]

I'm sure this pedal is great but this guy makes every pedal sound amazing. For some reason when I use them it is just not quite the same.

[@natresadkri6861]

Hahaha so true

[@nyalarhotep]

Yep, for some reason when i sit in a Ferrari, i can`t seem to make it work like Schumacher did. There is a strange pattern there, as if devices actually require skill from the user...

[@felipecuenca2811]

@@nyalarhotep lmao

[@Gunn27]

@@nyalarhotep I can use ski's better than him to be fair.

[@stephenjones101]

Really great demo! Not only does a great job demonstrating the product, but the song sounds great as well. A lot of pedal demos just mess around with random riffs. I actually enjoyed listening to this and am considering buying the pedel.

[@Malady]

This is the first new pedal I've seen in long time that I really want to try!

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Me too

[@guitarandbass1995]

Basically a Fernandes Sustainer you control with your foot. I want it :)

[@Alexander-iq5yq]

A real sustainer actually sustains the strings vibration. This pedal pretends to, so it will always seem artificial because it is. Pretty cool though.

[@granthambeard]

J583 I'm not sure about that. he seems to be able to manipulate the note as it's sustaining, which suggests the notes are genuinely ringing.

[@Alexander-iq5yq]

+Anthony Grantham Im quite sure the pedal itself has no effect on the strings. This fake feedback system has been available before and its decent but it just isnt the same.

[@vicesquadpunk]

I think it is like a sampler... when you hit a note it will loop the note until released, therefore if you release the string whilst pressed only the initial note will be heard ;-)

[@guitarandbass1995]

+J583 oh yeah I know that I was talking more about the harmonic feedback you can get from the sustainer :) But yeah it's a cool pedal indeed.

[@MrIliasboufidis]

i subscribed because the ratio of talk/audio demo was near perfect.

[@michaelholmes9153]

I am pretty impressed by this thing. Some of the new effects coming out there are pushing the envelope and not just redoing delays, reverbs, flangers, wahs, etc. The trick is to still be in the musical realm and not be gimmicky. First it was the E Bow, then Boss Feedbacker...then the Fernandes Sustainer which when installed severely alters your guitar. NOT what I would want. The EBow ties up your entire right hand. The Boss pedal wasn't leaps and bounds beyond its already available compression sustainer. The Freqout is long overdue and when or if my local store gets one, I may get one.

[@Ston247]

I don't regret the price I paid for it. The FreqOut can produce some pretty trippy sounds. I just love mine.

[@Fandirek]

Andy playing Supernatural - what's not to like?

[@andrewjeffries8721]

It starts out with my wanting to hear a cool new pedal and then I get distracted by the fact that this guy can play! Nice job, sir!!

[@leesyrjanen3947]

Andy, I've watched many of your demos and think you are an awesome guitarist. You make me want to buy everything you demo.

[@kevmet84]

Gotta love that! A good array of feedback options without having to do any further ear damage than has already been done, especially for those attributed to high sound levels. \m/

[@LorSTApunk07]

I was hoping to hear the feedback squeal in the "Mayonaise" riff.

[@Himandaguitar]

Mayonaise is not an instrument patrick!

[@robot8675]

I've heard that's not actually feedback but just a really bad guitar Billy Corgan was recording with at the time that buzzed

[@fairweatherfriends.]

Get big muff and run it into boss df2 feedbacker for something like that.

[@kevinwhaley6087]

Yep it actually came from a really beat up Strat that he bought because he saw it in a pawn shop window and he liked the color, when he got back to the studio just to mess around with it he noticed every time he quit playing it, it would immediately feedback, messed up pickups, he actually told the story on a commercial on MTV back in the 90’s when they actually played music, once I saw that I bought my first electric guitar which was a strat, tried to nail that squeal forever, but you can get damn close with this, and the feedback squeals made with a ebow on U2’s with or without you

[@xyu2198]

love that song

[@techsupportcyberschool3856]

I like to play my guitar loudly into an amp, get feedback, and then use this pedal for more feedback.

[@dr150]

THIS IS THE WAY!!

[@wednesdays7791]

Thanks for your feedback

[@VirtualWoodshed]

3:37 Airbag. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that song on a pedal demo before! Anyway, love this little thing, might have to pick one up. By the time my Marshall does this kind of stuff it is ear crushingly loud.

[@fpsmithland6105]

With the harmonic generator setting ... instant U2 Edge With or without you... very e-bow like!

[@xeractus]

I never thought I'd hear you play a Steve Hackett tune!! D (It's The Well At The World's End, a bonus track from Darktown - Steve is well known for his use of a Fernandes sustainer fitted Burny guitar ever since that album) EDIT: I didn't know that the steve hackett tune was a retitled cover of Peter Green's "The Supernatural" until now. I DIDN"T KNOW ALRIGHT

[@weadapt]

turns out you still haven't

[@alanshadyvally]

I've got five of his picks,just haven't figured out how to use them all at the same time.

[@santi-xj1qr]

Tape em all together to make a super jumbo jazz pick :>

[@ibnufasya6408]

I get it😂

[@salzulli6290]

I feel like this would be a neat little audio cue on stage when used properly. It would take some messing around to make it stand out from the already natural feedback, but I bet it could work nicely!

[@gavvino1]

This pedal sounds like it would be loads of fun for a Mick Ronson solo!

[@Liam_Doherty_UK]

I thought that too. The intro to ‘Cracked actor’ came to mind! :)

[@NoCoverCharge]

a friend i know that plays solo at the beach every single day... a real working music man ... he swears by this pedal

[@ahhhhh151]

love the Radiohead at 3:30

[@GlennJimenez]

It sounds INSANE with delay and reverb Wow I need this!!!!

[@alexanderwood3465]

Some of those tones sound like a theremin! 🤩 sold!

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

Finally, I can go and have a bite

[@Doug_Diego_Cazadores_Cassidy]

you'd still be hearing that one.

[@CLaw-tb5gg]

Doug Cassidy Aaaaaaaaah

[@closertotheheart]

I'm not hearing anything...

[@Doug_Diego_Cazadores_Cassidy]

Well, you would, if it were playing...

[@alrightcomeonletsgo]

Charles Carr just watch out for the Great Dick in the Sky

[@jrcsrx]

Andy has at least 8 fingers on his right hand amazing, ordered pedal 2 mins after watching video!!

[@markinthemix6055]

This is the most must have pedal I've seen in a while 😳 this will be an epic seller for Digitech.

[@Doug5524]

At last something different well-done Digitech

[@r.pneumo7337]

Amazing effect! Wonder how it'd sound with a synth.

[@ReneeNme]

Going to have to invest in one of these. A great way to achieve feedback at 3:00 a.m. without disturbing the neighbors.

[@buzzcrumhunger7114]

Gee, what a Supernatural tone you've found!

[@KarstenJohansson]

First long held note on electric guitar for Black Star, too.

[@daikuone]

Nice to hear some Peter Green

[@auldgrey]

Arriving late to the party.. thanks for max-demo and min-talking: I'm sold!

[@GuitarType01]

Perfect for ambient music

[@emiliomartinchica8680]

A question to PGS: what kind of pickups are this Les Paul equipped with? Just curiosity. Thx!

[@GregWorzel]

Andy, I would tell you what I think of this pedal but it doesn't seem like you need any more feedback. Ba dum bump! Thank you, I'm here every Friday night!

[@Haze763]

This Andy dude is the best player on youtube!!

[@dektrimusic]

Needless to say, great demo as always... Just bought one and the video gave me plenty of ideas... very inspiring...

[@oceantree5000]

Super late to the game, but stoked I’m here now. For years I played pedal-free, a semi-hollow into a HRDX, and creamy feedback was mine for the taking whenever I wanted it (if super loud- y’all know HRDXs 😂). Then I went solid-body and all that was gone. Fuck me, here’s where it went, obviously.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Nice panning ,Andy, on that first crazy 'feedbacked' note ... Lol ... I see what you did there - my head swayed right to left ... :P

[@absinha6209]

That opening note reminds me of Spinal Tap "the sustain!"

[@cgavin1]

Just got to admire the playing here! Awesome finger style too dude.

[@Yohahn]

The Gary Moore pedal :P

[@chuwy2k]

JoeyRockerTV the Santana's infinity sustain.

[@patricklemire9278]

José Pérez everything worthwhile Santana ever did he lifted from Peter Green. Andy is playing The Supernatural from John Mayall Bluesbreakers Hard Road when Green was on lead.

[@HuBrIsRaDiO]

It all stems from Peter Green, folks. Look him up

[@jasonlee8497]

I will buy this. By mail. No need to test drive. Awesome!!!

[@invin7215]

One of the most interesting pedals I've seen in awhile! Might have to get this one.

[@djlimitededition385]

I don't understand how you play with all fingers, no pick. Seriously. Great demos!

[@peterwelsh1932]

It's my always on pedal. Mainly as a sustainer. No Fernandez, no Ebow. Way more musical, natural, effortless

[@Hilbertification]

digitech is working out the difficulties from guitar playing, into a nice range of pedals! including the dod range. I like it!

[@markclemence3589]

I love the Redtail DG Strat, which is based on David Gilmour’s black Strat and, if I’m not mistaken, is built by Andy’s father.

[@douglasdiggins8296]

Everyone of these videos has the demonstrator use it to improve their Dad rock solos, but no ones using it in actual freak out sections? How does it work for straight noise?

[@jat5am]

0:26 love this moment. from now on I find myself missing it in the original track.

[@maxmordon7295]

Hopefully, we could see soon a review of the Sustainiac Stomp Model... 😀

[@burtonmiller]

Predictable feedback effects at any volume -- I'm in!

[@anniedarkhorse6791]

Very nice. Now I have to buy one. Damn it.

[@druwk]

With silent/quiet stage playing, no microphone recording, amp modeling this pedal seems like a God send? I have a couple ideas of how to use the other functions. Thanks for the post. Trying to get a real sense of it before I pull the trigger.

[@mr.champlinssciencechannel906]

Instead of an invisible jet Andy is a superhero with an invisible plectrum

[@alexbreyer6921]

I've never seen a pedal like this one. Not sure how much I'd use it, but I love the idea.

[@-thirteen]

I wish there was a selection of modulations assignable to the feedback. phase, chorus, trem....only effecting the feedback

[@user-cp3ju2fz4z]

So its a Freeze and a Feedback. But what happen when I do effect Drones or Shimmer do they disapear in the Feedback ?

[@BuildYourOwnBass]

3:50 comments and no one can guess which Coldplay jam he's riffing on? sounds like We Never Change or something else from that era

[@DP-hn6rl]

What kind of overdrive pedal was used with this video in the beginning???? @ProGuitarShopDemos

[@mravanteguarde]

Must have, i gotta have this pedal, the only pedal missing in my rig. This is the only pedal that hits me back at gas dimension.

[@Krispy1011]

nice guitar work - good job

[@MazharA]

Similar to using the sustainiac, gives me some GOOD ideas on my Schecter C1FRS

[@markallen381]

Dis I notice some artifacts that sound somewhat like a Theremin (I'm thinking of good vibrations)?

[@javiceres]

What if you put it after a huge reverb? I’d love to try

[@oliverloy]

This is a nice pedal but unfortunately the sound cuts off after the strings ring out even when vibrating the strings. I tried a lot of settings and different notes but the feedback doesn't last forever like a natural feedback would.

[@motokev2727]

Dam, look at me wiggle as he plays one of my favorites by Peter Green, The Supernatural.

[@wxb200]

You ever consider being Paul Rudd's guitar-stunt double?

[@user-pw4qi4gc60]

I love Digitech gear. Will it work on vocals? Don't forget to get a couple for your wife and mother-in-law for NGD!! lmao

[@coldwar1977]

how would this sound on vocals? :)

[@Rusli1659LPSoldier]

0:08 this pedal look sound exactly like the sustainer pedal though. but look at the settings on that (This pedal is also used in Gary Moore's parisienne walkways).

[@phenixreturns]

*Amazing demo ! Check it out ! **kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXqUZZSpjdWelbs*

[@modernbeans2637]

That’s Spinal Tap level sustain!

[@brandonmoore9503]

This is fucking awesome. I hadn't heard of any pedals that generate feedback like that until now (I'm sure there are others), but this seems super conducive to ambient textures and soundscapes

[@sethdraven5569]

The harmonic/supernatural shimmers reminds me of some of U2’s ballady stuff. Totally want it! ...not just for that reason though lol

[@jjohnson9009]

Brilliant! Now I have to figure out where it fits in the signal chain...

[@JCBigCat]

J Johnson the video says to put it First in the signal chain. THE VIDEO HAS SPOKEN!

[@jsail5508]

This pedal is super clean and raw.

[@Julius_Seizure]

Ive never been so thirsty for a pedal in my life. Got to get you on my pedal board!

[@doomerius1300]

This will be great next to Ricochet on the board! Great review, again. Ty

[@stevegardiner8473]

While I appreciate the technology, would Gary Moore have used one of these on Parisienne Walkways? Some people will find uses for it but, it will take all the fun out of trying to find that sweet spot. When I make this sound happen on stage (the old fashioned way), myself, my band, and the audience get something from it, smiles all round, this pedal I think, would take all the joy out of it.

[@Kanthon]

I think he said "offset" but meant to say "onset". Thou art forgiven.