Digitech Freqout: Never been off my board. My guide to “playing” it 

As you showed above, I used to use the pedal in a latching way. I have recently started keeping it in a non-latching mode, with the gain almost zero and the onset the max for some slow tracks (with low gain). If you get it right then the feedback is almost dependent on the pressure exerted by the fingers, feels a lot more organic this way.

I've been jamming to your intro all week. It has really helped me break out of a rushed scalar style into a more fluid kind of improvisation. What a great influence. Thank you.

Hi pal, really enjoyed this one, your sounds are getting better if that's possible, must be the good mood your in with my gags hehe, and speaking of, a taxi driver is waiting outside a hotel for his hire, suddenly the pope gets in and says "driver I need to get to the airport in the next 20 minutes ", driver says " sorry your Holiness that's impossible in this traffic ", pope says "I'll give you £500 on top if you will do this for me", driver says " look i could lose my licence and taxi, I'm sorry ", pope says "What if I drive and I'll still give you the £500", driver says "ok your on", so the pope is driving like a madman and of course gets pulled over, the cop says " do you know how fast you were driving ?", and the pope says "I'm sorry officer, but I simply have to get to the airport in the next 5 minutes ", the cop radios in " sarge, I've just pulled over a very important person for speeding ", sarge says "is he more important than me ?", yes sarge, " is he more important than the chief inspector ?" Yes sarge " is he more important than the prime minister ?", "sarge, this guy is that important that the pope is his driver ". All the best mate.

Just got a Freqout and I was pretty down on it until I saw this, thank you! Less is more and learn the art of when to let go of that button! And it sure doesn't hurt to hold your guitar up and sell it!! Great advice. Beautiful playing.

Best Freqout demo Ive seen on RU-vid. Gotta love how it slowly rolls into those sweet harmonics at such low volume.

Totally incredible playing

Fabulous as always Paul , I completely forgot you were demonstrating the Freqout I was so immersed in your playing, and it's an "old tune" that has been very inspiring to me over the last couple of years......no other pedal brings a smile to my face when I'm using it as much as the Freqout does ☺

Thank you! I’ve watched ten Freqout demos and this is the first where it sounds natural

Cool video and Scottish accent is the coolest accent in the world. cheers from Vancouver, Canada. Ed

Love you honesty Paul lol, and of course your brilliant playing once again. The Freqout is something else 👍🏻

I came here after your 1st review of this pedal - it makes sense that you would make use of this pedal. Lots of feel. Thanks for the effort.

Thanks again Paul, for another entertaining video. Lovely playing as always, and your personality always comes through in your presentation.

I really like how you didn't over use it in the intro jam. Im not even into blues, but it was truly beautiful.

NOICE! One of the tastiest playings with this pedal i found so far. I was on the hunt for that pedal for ages and found one today for 75€ wich was in my price range. I love it can "freqout" even with cleanish tones.

Brilliant as always! Howdy from MOntana :)

Wow such awesome phrasing and note choices. Subscribed.

Great playing! 😮

Love the moody nature of your playing. Really soulful, bro

Thank you Paul I wouldn’t miss any of your great videos which inspires me for an Edinburgh gig tmrw 🎸👍❤️

I've been watching your "tricks of the trade" videos and PRACTICING WITH IT. Would love to see more, even if it's repeating some of the same. Love the vids for the keys E, A, D, G, etc and the diminished scale.

Terrific playing, mate… thanks for the demo!

Love this channel. So fantastic, so consistent, so real. Best!!! P.S. I bought the Kingsley Harlot based on your video and have never looked back. My oh my. Perhaps one day I'll seek out a Page as well. Lovely outfit (Kingsley) to work with as well.

Awesome Paul as always you're playing really says something that's what it's all about speaks to your heart and soul

This is awesome!

Never heard of this pedal….thanks for the introduction! Beautiful playing as usual,

Love that strat tone.wow.and your playing is superb.👍👍👍👍👍🌷🌷🌷🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thanks for doing this video. I love this pedal and you have given me a fresh look!

Nice sound and nice explanation about the pedal. Sounds great and can't wait to see how it works in a live situation with a band. Best regards.

Nice and beautiful playing! Love it

Man, I've never herd of those Cornell amps, thanks for turning me onto them. I've got a home built 59 bassman head, running into a 4x12 sized cab loaded with 2 x 55hz greenbacks. So we are somewhat in the same tonal family. But I'm always in the market for more juicy tone machines lol. And that sounds sublime!

Love the playing and the sentiment. I've been looking for one of these, I think it'll be worth it when I find one at the right price.

You have a lot of original ideas. Very nice!

Loved the out take Paul. I think you said a bad word tho, oh well your only human after all.

LOL... 2nd in a Row First Post Post ... too funny... One of the first pedals I got was a Ross Compressor when I was 15, and I still have it and it is always connected and always on. Great pedal... Thanks for the post and have a great weekend!

Great playing!

Fantastic stuff as usual Paul sounds heavenly

Someday somebody gonna drag u out.u are just the best smooth soulful player I'm aware of.

bravo!

Lovely video as always. I do love the transcript calling the pedal a Free Coat 😂

Captain Cook ,you inspire me sir, hats off to Roy🎸✌🏻

Awesome.

Thought it was Elliot Randall playing there for a bit.😉 Lovely stuff Paul. Bravo man, bravo.

aye, enjoyed that, , like the chap said before, it all sounded fine :) that double stop you played at 8:33 just sublime mate, your a master of them

Getting yer freq on Paul 😆 I thought it was particularly tasty on the release bend. Great playing as always. Few F chords at the end there. 🤣😂

Great video Paul. I really like the FreqOut, only very slight issue I find is the buffer in it, curious to know if you have found the same. It’s most useful set up like you have it, on momentary mode so the feedback kicks in when you press and hold the switch. However, on momentary mode it has a buffer always engaged (which makes sense I guess, it has to be ‘on and listening’ all the time in case you press the switch!). But if you have certain drive pedals after it which don’t like to see a buffer (especially transistor based drives and fuzzes), it can make them sound fizzy and harsh. The workaround is to put it in latching mode (where you press the foot switch once to turn it on, then again to turn it off) because this uses true bypass. But 2 issues with that: it makes it clunkier and more fiddly to use, and you hear the sound of your tone change when you turn the FreqOut on, before the feedback even kicks in. Only seems to be an issue with certain drive pedals, I have a Page too and it’s OK into that. But it really changes the sound of my Hudson Broadcast for example, especially if using the green higher gain side. Have you found the same with your Broadcast? It’s really easy to test if it’s changing your drive tones, as you can just switch the Momentary switch on and off and you can hear the buffer coming in and out of the signal path. Have tried putting the FreqOut after the gain pedals to get round it, but the feedback definitely sounds better placed before gain. Really enjoy your videos and playing Paul, keep up the great work!

Hi Paul, really love your approach, your tone and overall your playing. By the way, because of you, Nick Oswald is (as we speak) building me a hard tail Strat with of course different specs but the same level of relic-ing. Keep posting your bloody good stuff.

Hey mate I dont subscribe to many guitarists Just doing my own thing But your pretty chill Im subscribing

Seeing you with a pedal board is weird. The Paul I played with never used them. Awesome video as per. 😂😂🎼🎶

Im not sure if I would be able to use it properly at the stage of my playing ability but I can see how cool it would used in different lead situations. Thanks for sharing the knowledge Paul. I really enjoy listening to you play. I like the way you put feeling in every note you play. Love you all Bill.

Sounding a bit more jazzy this time around Paul. I like it.👌 Never been a Freqout fan myself, but then again as a metal guy I prefer a srceamin amp in my face anyway.😁 I do appreciate your discretion in the use of your cherry pedal. It's a lot like eating sweets, they may taste good at first, but if you over indulge you're going to regret it.😬 You know the saying about too much of a good thing.😉 I will say that the Kingsley Page sure acts a bit like a BBE by softening the overdrive in the Freqout, that was an interesting effect in the quick demo. Very good tips for the folks watching.🤙

Amazing solo 👍🏻

I realize it’s about the Freqout, which is cool. I still have to say, Paul, that - for a guy that isn’t partial to the Stratocaster, you definitely got yours to talk. I was trying to focus on the Freqout, but I was transfixed by your playing and the guitar.

Great pedal Paul. I didn't know about it. Thanks for the information. It sounds so cool. I think probably I'll get one. I love that electric sound so much. It's an electric guitar we need electricity. Thanks 🙏👍

Great playing Paul…you should have a crack at Steve Hacketts solo in Firth of Fifth using this…

Love it! Stay Classy!!

thanks Paul. I got a Freqout having seen you use it some time ago and dont use it much but it's staying on the board. I love it. dont see many around tho

That is some damn sultry playing. I feel seduced and I'm not even mad. I'm less than a minute in too. Awesome playing.

Great playing as usual. Ive got the sustainiac system in a Schecter. Kinda the same, but not quite as subtle. Really enjoy your vids

after the Attack and Decay by EHX this will be my next Pedal... to provide a little bit of magic

love the outtake! :D LOL

I suppose its the vibrato while its fading out. Even synth pedals glitch out in a bad way when you bend. Not in the cool unison way. I wish it did but they just don't. The tracking for the tuning must be trying to first harmonize a second note exactly like yours and then put the effects on it. And when you bend it has to choose between the note your on or the note your bending to with no in between flow. It needs a progressive note system not in notches but totally 100% chromatic like a fretless and i think that would really help. Same thing with octave pedals. Or at least have double memory for notes and add all the microtonal notes in microtonal scales. So the machine has a closer to the actual note to effect during a bend.

Brilliant…thanks!

Wow, all looks like the Star Ship Enterprise to me. I think I'd better stick with my Amps🤣 nice playing as usual.

Great sound…thanks..

Hi Paul, that "synthy whine" sounds like a feedback harmonic to me. It sounds quite convincing at this end of the RU-vid. Is it not so in the room? Love the out-take! 😂😂

I have been meaning to pick one of these up. I got a ton of use from the "feedback feature" in an old boss GT6. It did the feedback thing great but if you held the note just a bit too long (over 3 seconds) the note would go crazy (which could also be a good thing.) I have some songs that could never be replicated without that old GT6 feature (which is now in a landfill somewhere in the USA.) The Freqout is a lot more convenient to use and has more features and sounds great.

I don't have a board! I actually have several petals, but seldom use anything other than a BOSS or Keeley compressor.

I'm getting one for sure. I've been thinking that before when you've talked about it, but now it seems a must for me to have on the board! Great video again Paul. I love that blooper at the end. Just like watching myself there 😂 You sound really good playing the blues, and I wonder if I heard some new added fast phrases to your repertoar along the way? Amazing tones captured by using your phone. Cheers, Thor

Hey Paul, always really admired the tones and your playing I think this is the first I've ever heard of you using a pedalboard. Any thoughts of making a video of sharing what you are using on your full board?

Hot damn. I need a cigarette after that opening jam

I get a similar effect from my flute by overblowing and getting a harmonic on the ass end instead of on the attack.

I hope Line6 will add something like that to the Helix line, it feels a little crazy for me to bring a sustainer guitar for just one song (Heroes - Bowie).

This seems like it would be a great pedal for recording as well. Getting a live feedback sound without having to crank an amp in a studio setting would be nice. By the way, of all of your guitars do you feel most comfortable playing your Tele Paul? Cheers

The Beatles took multiple dozens of takes for all of their songs, I think many people don't fully appreciate how recording artists polish their masterpieces before presenting them, so cut yourselves some slack, we can't produce miraculous results instantly!

Love this Paul, the same track you played on your green tube pedal vid. Is it an original piece?

Really great Paul! The Freqout is very expressive I will be sure to check one out….Could you do a similar video on the Kaffir Lime? How do you run the volume of the pedal for breakup when the amp is set at bedroom level?

Im looking at sustainiac pickups in a schecter But theres another guitar id prefer.. my dream guitar that doesnt have sustainiac.... Its a 7 string headless delo by kiesel , strat style body And so im torn between the two and i can only buy one.... Perhaps this pedal could make up for not having the sustainiac.... Im curious does the button click in at some point Or does it sort of go in a bit and back up when u let go if that makes sense ? Id prefer it not to click in... And now im thinking about the cutout your showing 🤔 So it completely cuts out the note after said amount of time ? Sorry for the questions

Already got the pedal,I use it with my katana,almost the same settings.What is the pedal with the tube?Great vid as per.

How do we get you an Uncle Larry on a live stream? I’d imagine the the crossover audience is huge.

Thanx Paul... Can it catch/latch 2 notes at once?

But you are a guitar hero!

Paul....Great stuff. You making mistakes? Great outake...

made me laugh

Feedback at low volume? Yes please. Off to Ebay I go.......

Bro

Now there's strange techs, musicians spent years and millions trying to eradicate feed back and they bring a pedal out to simulate it. 😂😂😂😂👍🥃Respect to you mate.

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