I think I got a good deal on my Whammy (WH-1)

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:19 pm

ok, so I bought a Digitech Whammy WH-1 at a pawn shop the other day for $60. I have since checked the going rate for these pedals on ebay and I see them fetching like $600+. I have tried googling 'fakes' and also tried to find a resource for digitech serial numbers to confirm that I am sitting on a gold mine. Can anybody shed some light on this situation? Did I really walk away with as good a deal as I think I did?

It looks like this:

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:28 pm

Sounds like it. Nice one.

Did you get the power supply?

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:30 pm

yes! The weird ac/ac adaptor. The guy at the shop offered it for free, so I didn't try to haggle him down from $60.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:32 pm

ac88 wrote:yes! The weird ac/ac adaptor. The guy at the shop offered it for free, so I didn't try to haggle him down from $60.

Excellent!

Thinks - some poor sucker probably only got $30 from the pawn shop in the first place. Ow.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:34 pm

Damn that's nice. One went not too long ago for $1200 or some crazy price like that. Get you a bypass box and rock out!!!

hugh · Post by **hugh** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:34 pm

What's the appeal of the old whammies? Better tracking? Better tone?

Johno · Post by **Johno** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:37 pm

hugh wrote:What's the appeal of the old whammies? Better tracking? Better tone?

Mojo?

blacktaxi · Post by **blacktaxi** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:12 pm

hugh wrote:What's the appeal of the old whammies? Better tracking? Better tone?

They got true bypass AFAIK. The new Whammy 4 has buffered bypass, but also has two or three new modes.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:44 pm

That's a find dude. The originals go for more because of the people who used them. Most of the famous whammy users, used that model. So you have the combination of a "vintage" effect, artist/fanboy value, and some people who think it tracks differently than the whammy IV.

ac88 · Post by **ac88** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:23 pm

I've been dicking around with it, having lots of fun

. I love the detune feature, I could spend all day just springing chords from unholy dissonance to perfect pitch. The thing tracks chords pretty well on a lot of settings.

I am actually pretty broke right now, and I almost hesitated dropping $60. I figured I must be getting some shitty Whammy variant (i.e. XP-100) or something. How could the pawn guys not know their shit!? Lucky me.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:45 pm

great find

the original is the one hailed by people like tom morello. he still uses it to this day.

i did toy with getting one, but my EX-7 does a pretty good whammy (same company).

MISSINGNO. · Post by **MISSINGNO.** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:19 pm

I've got the WH-4 and I'm really not a fan of it.

I don't find myself using it that much. Way more intrigued by the XP-300.

glitchathon · Post by **glitchathon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 10:51 pm

yea you got a great deal! my friend had one and i liked it better than my XP-100 whammy/wah which broke after a year of use.

jmikel17 · Post by **jmikel17** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:07 pm

Uou it's a great deal, some guys on another forum, were buying it for around 400 euros.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:15 pm

That's awesome! THough, I think I would be forced to sell it.

glitchathon · Post by **glitchathon** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:54 pm

cobascis wrote:That's awesome! THough, I think I would be forced to sell it.

yea i would sell it and buy a Boss PS-5, which i like even more and is readily available and affordable.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:44 pm

I believe there is more analogue maguffins in the original than later ones. I might be misremembering . Whatever the case that is an incredible find for the money.

Rhysyrhys · Post by **Rhysyrhys** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:52 pm

Flip that shit and get a HOG or something and then have about 150 left over. What a bargain man. You could pay a few months rent with that.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:19 pm

ns, deal of the century here.

i'd flip it, and get a H3 (my fave) and then buy some other cool shit. great find.

the coolest shit at my pawn shops is solid state fender bass amps (ghey) and nicely taxedermied jackalopes.

dumb donnie · Post by **dumb donnie** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:45 pm

Shit, that's quite a find. I'd hold on to it for a little while (until the market recovers a little) and sell the hell out of it. Maybe try the Gear Page, those guys always have money to spend.