“The only limit is your imagination”: DigiTech’s HammerOn is a radical pitch-shifter that lets you “play the impossible” and program automatic riffs and licks

DigiTech HammerOn.

NAMM 2025: If you thought DigiTech’s signature collaboration with MonoNeon was out there, a little wild, a Whammy Pedal variant that took its pitch-shifting concept to new extremes, you’ve got to check out the HammerOn.

The HammerOn is part of the Whammy family of DigiTech’s radical pitch-shifting effects for electric guitar, but like, say, the Drop or the Ricochet, it is not controlled via a treadle. It does, however, have seven modes, and for those who wish they had bigger fingers – perhaps a four-octave stretch on their fretting hand, fingers like Mr Tickle’s arms – then this might be the pedal for you.