DigiTech

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DigiTech
DigiTech logo.svg
Type
Private
Industry Musical instrument manufacturing
Founded 1984
Headquarters Sandy, Utah, United States
Products Effects units
Parent Harman International Industries
Website Official website

DigiTech Death Metal -distortion guitar effect pedal.

DigiTech is an American company which manufactures digital effects units.

Contents
1 History
2 References
3 Further reading
4 External links
History
The company is known especially for its Whammy, first manufactured in 1989, which
made foot-controlled pitch shifting effects possible. It is also known for the Time
Machine digital delay series and IPS33/IPS33B Smart Shift harmonizers. Since then,
the company has expanded into making numerous multi-effects and guitar and amp
modeling equipment.[1]

In the 1990�s Digitech had a range of multi effects in rackmount format that was
marketed for semi professional guitarist. These used a digital controled analog
preamp (some with a vacuum tube circuit) for clean and distorted sounds and a
digital effect processor for pitch, modulation, reverb, delay etc... this concept
later on expanded to a range of multi-effect pedals named the RP-series. From the
early 2000�s on the analog preamps in the multi effects were replaced with digital
modelling technology.

In 2004, DigiTech released an overdrive pedal called the DigiTech Bad Monkey|Bad
Monkey Tube Overdrive.[2] In 2016, Digitech introduce the Digitech Trio+, a
stompbox that generates combined bass and drum rhythms for any chord progression
played into it.[3]

Digitech also produced the RP55 effects processor, which is popular among beginners
and amateurs due to its relatively low cost and rich feature set.

DigiTech was acquired in 1990 by Harman International Industries, which later

became as a subsidiary of South Korea-based firm Samsung Electronics in 2017.

References
Allen, Paul (July 2012). "DigiTech iStomp". Guitar Player. pp. 144�45.
"Digitech Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive Pedal Review". Guitarhoo!. Guitarhoo.com.
August 4, 2004. Archived from the original on April 17, 2014. Retrieved April 16,
2014.
"DigiTech Trio+ review". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2016-10-07.
Further reading
"Digitech Studio Quad V2". Future Music. No. 56. Future Publishing. May 1997. p.
43. ISSN 0967-0378. OCLC 1032779031.
"Digitech Vocalist Workstation". Future Music. No. 54. Future Publishing. March
1997. p. 48. ISSN 0967-0378. OCLC 1032779031.
External links
Official website Edit this at Wikidata
Digitech 2120 - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech S100 - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech Studio S200 - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech Studio Quad V2 - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech Talker - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech VCS1 - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech Vocalist - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Digitech Vocalist Performer - Sound On Sound review (archive.org)