The Digitech Drop Pedal: Does it ACTUALLY Solve Drop Tuning?

[@blahblahblah742]

Great review Mike! I hate transposing on the fly & wish I'd had this years ago! When you are playing the same song with different bands in different keys that can cause chaos but his little fella would help solve that. Keep up the good work

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Exactly that! Couldn't agree more!

[@LilYeshua]

Thanks. Now I understand it now as well as what it's capable are and not and it's shortcomings. My band leader has one on his pedal board spread and plays lead six string. He initially had it on my bass station setup but I usually always play in drop D tuning on my four string bass for the songs we play and with his singing voice everything fits in the mix.

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Thank you, I hope you enjoyed the video and found it useful. It's a very handy pedal to have.

[@SilkySipsbyStaceyAnn]

Ahhhh, very cool to hear this in action. Definitely worth it to have one in the pedal arsenal. 🎉

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Totally agree! I'd be a bit lost now without it! Thanks for the comment!

[@tsvdpSG889]

Very useful, I want to play some Ghost and Arch Enemy stuff, and this will save me to buy extra basses just for that.

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Glad I could help and you found it useful. Rock on!

[@richardcarpenter1594]

Had one for a while my self along with the Drop Whammy. It's different.

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Cool, the Whammy seemed a bit like overkill for what I need the Drop to do but horses for courses! All the best!

[@markgatland977]

Very interesting...I've looked into this as one of the tunes I play regularly live with one of my bands requires me to take out another bass completely tuned a semitone down. I tried programming a patch into my HX Effects using the pitch algorithm, but it sounds pretty artificial to my ears. TBH, with your Kubicki and the semitone down setting I really couldn't hear a difference tonally between standard pitch. Impressed! 👍

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Cheers Mark, on some Queen tributes, I use it set to one or two semitones down, depending on the vocalist's requirements and the pedal stays on all night and it sounds fine in a band mix. All the best!

[@Alexdaroz]

On my Warwick Streamer ProM unfortanelly the tracking is awful, even 1 semiton, when i play the E string it keeps "searching" the note. I solve this problem putting my Boss Bass Limiter before the digitech, and compressing very Hard, but, by doing That, the sound change so much compared to the standard tunning. At the moment i dont have other basses to test, but i think the Warwick sound is too strong for the drop

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Wow! That's crazy...I've used super high output basses with it and not had that problem at all. Have you tried replacing the pedal?

[@Alexdaroz]

@@BrooksysBassCorner Yes, the guitar player of my band has one as well, same result

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

That's a shame. I've run Alembics, Statii, Music Man, Spector, Lakland, Kubicki, GB Guitars and multiple other makes of bass through it without any issues. Sorry to hear that it doesn't work for you. All the best!

[@dhendart]

How does it compare to the new HX One?

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

Haven't had access to an HX One to compare it, sadly.

[@KaltOhm]

8 semitones are not an octave.

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

My mistake, I should have said 7 semitones, THEN it drops to the octave down, then the Octave + Dry Signal. Cheers for the heads up!