Digitech The Drop - IN DEPTH Review (a bit too in depth)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Digitech's THE DROP is an amazing pedal that kinda makes 7 and 8 String guitars obsolete... no, seriously... you can have the playability of a nice 6 string with good string tension and great attack while stille having the downtuned sound of your favorite swedish death-grind-core band... it works and it's fun.
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As stated previously, many fuzzes (especially germanium ones) want to see the high impedance output of a guitar. When the Drop is engaged, it essentially becomes a buffer, dropping the impedance and creating noise issues, in addition to changing the character of the fuzz.
+1
Rhop so wouldn't the drop go after the fuzz then?
Correct, that's the conventional way of doing it.
Fuzz sounds bad, its impedance issue doesnt even matter. I just never use it. Ever. It sounds like broken distortion. I want clean, or heavy, never “fuzzy”
@@OttophilIt's subjective. I personally also don't like it, but cmon - a useful advice regardless
This guy is easily my favorite gear reviewer. Crazy as fuck but knows his shit.
THE NOISE ISSUE IS VERY SIMPLE
Most fuzzes want to be first in the chain because they like to see the impedance of the guitar pickups. The drop is true bypass so when it is off it does not affect, but when you engage it the output is low impedance and the fuzz usually get noisier and with more of that painfull high end.
So just put the drop after de fuzz or buy another kind of fuzz (like a big muff or the boss one)
Thank you for pointing this out, just checked the manual and the output impedance is just 1kΩ... Any idea what hardware would I need to bring this signal back to 10kΩ?
I know its been 4 years, but thank you so much! This comment solved my noise issue that i spend days trying to fix
Im going to need about three of them in my chain to get that brutal triple octave sound
First video I see from this guy, the most hillarious thing is the wife behind acting completely normal all the time
Leslie is a trooper :p She is NOT impressed by Henning's guitars.
MEEETAAALLL!!! -Dog leaves room
That's because he created sounds so high pitched that human ear couldn't perceive it and soo high that even the dog couldn't bear it.
That was my favorite part of this whole video. Dog said I’m out 😂🤣
Oh my god this is great! Love the banner and the need for a stool to put it up all the way. Best ever!
The guy's crazy! Funny as hell and the reviews are straight out honest and I tend to agree with the "a bit too in depth" but that's why we listen to his channel and know what to expect! :)
How in the actual fuck can you even hit that METAL note?
I'd guess he's wearing some hidden device which squeezes his balls for producing that noise!
Holy shit. Of all the reviews I've seen on this thing, I never knew you could do the momentary switch reversed like that. Perfect for playing a solo that has super high notes you may have eliminated by dropping. I'm so frikin sold on this thing.
This might be the best review ive ever seen. Thank you for this!
The most entertaining video review I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Nice work, sir.
9:06 you got me I laughed years after you posted it!
You channel is like a library for guitar and gear. Every time I'm interesting in guitar and search in TH-cam engine one channel keep coming up. EytschPi42🤘🏾🎸
This video sold me on getting it.
Always enjoy your reviews! 🤘🏽🤘🏽 METAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL🔥🔥🔥🤘🏽🤘🏽
That was a fun video. Thanks for uploading it! :) Take care, Sam.
You don’t do the metal 🤘 war-cry thing anymore . Good to see and hear. Good 2 cents worth at the end
Hey Henning you should get a METAL button to go with your thats what she said button.
Love the vids big hello from New Zealand. keep putting a smile on our faces :)
Anyone else see the dog leave after so much "Metaaaaal!!!" at 3:59? rofl
As an 8-string player, I'd say there is also a limit for how low you can take a fifth. I never play 0-2-2 on the low F# string; an F# power chord on an 8-string should be played as 0-7-9-9, i.e. with an octave F# at the bottom, no C# (the fifth) in between.
They should fire everyone at guitar world and just let you loose..
To me, the JEM has slightly less high end, but as you mentioned it has old strings, but further it does sound exactly the same to me. Thanks for this very very in-depth review and confirming my suspicions on some of the physics and workings of the pedal. I'll definitely go get one of these, initially I had the idea to get the white Harley Benton 7string, for lower tunings like A# (so I can do some Breaking Benjamin covers) but then thought they also play Drop C and other bands do Drop B or C#, which I also want to do, so finding out that this pedal is so incredibly transparent and almost latency-less is a great outcome, so I don't have to buy more strings and just use my good guitar for all this.
Thanks for the amazing review!
Thank you, so much, for mentioning the bit about hearing (acoustically) the natural tune of the guitar if you're playing at low volume levels. I didn't even think about that.... That was going to be the problem i would have, in my apartment, and you've just saved me time and aggravation. I was hoping to get one of these instead of an additional guitar dedicated to a certain tuning.... I guess there really is 'no free lunch.'
CentaurusRelax314 use headphones when you're at low volume
Nick Simms A possibility, but 1/ I hate playing through headphones, and 2/ ostensibly, the need for the tuning change would be when learning particular songs, and I'd likely need to be listening to that song's playback through a different device. Headphones would muffle the guide track.
@@CentaurusRelax314 That's why you have an auxiliary input in your amp (possibly!). For me it works just fine and for my neighbours even better! ;)
@@Horva021990 I don't understand your response in the context of what i wrote. How does an Aux input help?
@@CentaurusRelax314 You just plug the device where you play the song to the amp through the Aux input and you can hear everything in your headphone!
You listen to In Flames!? Now that made you even more cool!
You're killing me with "that's what she said". And then the backdrop thing, the chair, tears.
The pedal... also interesting ;-)
Good point about hearing the guitar strings before the drop pedal output.
Using headphones can help
3:02 I caught that Deep Purple reference.
I will get mine, soon. Can't wait.
dude keep up your work congrats on 50k subs i saturated watching you last year and i i hope you get to the mill soon
4:05 The dog be like "allright....imma head out" ahahahahahahahaha
After viewing the 2 cents part, I`m guessing the only reason to get an 7 or 8 string, besides the looks, is when your are playing live, to have a full extended range instrument; chug on the low notes and solo on the highest.
Excellent review, simple pedal but still really functional. I like how it sounds when playing chords too, no Classic to Chords toggle to worry about like with the V5. Nice pedal!
I got the Digitech Whammy 5 for what i use to drop with,(i originally bought it so i could play Becoming by PanterA cause i seen the whammy 5 is what he used for that super squeely note he gets in Becoming, suicide note pt2 etc.... he later used the whammy 1st gen (2 of them) during damageplan and he used 1 whammy to drop tune and 1whammy to make the squeely notes//////this looks very useful though, i like how small that drop pedal is. But i really love how i can use the whammy pedal to get in between tunings-( Doyle wolfgang von frankenstein does this) but im sure not many people know who that is lol
Jimmy Bee he's the greatest guitar beater the world of hardcore punk has ever known.
My second favorite guitarist, it because of playing capabilities but because of tone,
My #1 is Rocky George from when suicidal tendencies was in their prime
Doyle is the man,along with Danzig,members of the real Misfits.
A little late to the party here, but I just got this pedal recently. It works great for what I use it for…..a singer in one of the bands that I jam with sings a half step down, so now I don’t have to keep retuning. But I’ve noticed (and I’ve been trying to find anyone online who has also experiences this. I found it in your video) that when I use the Drop with my Wampler Plexi Drive mini, it has that same hissing sound you got with the fuzz pedal. Funny though I don’t hear it with my MXR EVH overdrive or the MXR Super Badass Distortion. I was thinking that there was something wrong with the Drop or the Wampler, but I guess it’s just finicky with certain pedals.
Crazy as batshit !! Great stuff dude...keet the reviews coming.
Once again, your channel is awesome!
I play songs through my phone into the guitar pickup an octave down to scare my friends
Most fun review ever 😂
So “mmmmmmetaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!” that the dog runs away 🤘🏻😂😂😂🤘🏻
Just bought this myself... but I'm sorry, the intro alone warrents a sub! Cracking up, legend!
In Flames is in drop A# these days. Their old stuff was in C standard.
Edit: lunar strain and subterranean were in D# standard. Jester race and whoracle were in C stadard, while Colony and Clayman had some C standard and some drop A#. Starting in 2002 with Reroute to Remain, they switched to drop A# and haven’t changed since then.
Wish they would make a midi switchable preset version. Hate having to remember to change it in a cover band situation.
Your videos are always on fucking point...love this shit..keep making more.
Finally a review that isn’t just trying to advertise the product thanks man!
ive bought the drop a few months ago affer watching a tone king vid also ive upgraded from a crappy bc rich to a high end custum one with floyd this pedal has made things much easyer only trouble is wen u practice on a smal amp playing softly to practice ofcourse your going to hear the sound of the string thrue inbetween or even over your amp playing louder or with gooood headphones makes al the differents im happy with it and if i want to play drop B softer il just get my old fixed bridged guitar out
Thanks Henning.
I've only just discovered these things and, of course, you have a very informative and hilarious video about it.
I want to get down to DropC#/DropC for a few songs I want to learn - but on a 24.75" scale guitar and I had all sorts of nightmares of going to a 12-56 set of strings and having to widen the nut slots, adjust truss rod, intonation etc etc but this could solve many problems.
Set up a nice DropD (where it lives anyway) and I'm good to go.
Now to see if you have done the Morpheus Droptune so I can compare .........
The Morpheus was a great first of a kind pedal for its day but my understanding is the technology in the Digitech is more modern, chip wise. Same with the EHX Pitchfork. I read that the chip used in the Pitchfork was an older chip style. I’ve owned all 3 and the Digitech was better for me.. It also has a much smaller footprint then the Morpheus, that sucker is BIG. I found that when I dropped them all to low there we’re some strange synth like overtones. If you already tune to D then dropping down to C should be no issue. In the end it comes down to your ears. A few people have also commented on chain placement for the drop when using Fuzz. So play around with it till you find the right spot in your chain. - PureSalem Guitars
I have one since last summer and im very happy with it!!! Very usefull when you want to learn songs in lower tunnings like Sepultura`s songs!!!
don't even see a jam hanging up but the golden finished box looks stunning
Definitely a purchase im gonna have to make since i have a floating trem and can't be arsed to change strings all the time. Definitely not too in depth, great review, thanks :)
Thanks for the tip about low interval problems! I'd hoped this pedal would be good for covering songs where multiple open strings were needed to avoid losing the character of the original song chords. Seems like that is the worst way to use this pedal. 😞
You need to use your "That's what she said" pedal in your next produced track. Love that JEM! Hey to Leslie!
What did she say?
Am I the only person who has actually tuned up? I went up to G standard once (GCFBbDG), it sounded quite pretty. I had to get some pretty thin strings though, and I was afraid to go any higher
You sir need to play a violin!
2024, Year Of The Octave, Thanks you, Hening. 🤘
very nice! awesome playing! I'm learning the song as we speak--
Great review. Great pedal. Been using it for about 2 years (about when it came out). The noise issue. It REQUIRES its OWN power supply. It puts so much noise in other pedals. Even with a Voodoo isolated power supply the noise is bad. Again, Use power supply that comes with it and no daisy chains or even the advertised isolated power supplies. If anyone fines a multiple isolated power supply that this thing stays quiet on ( high gain) please let the world know.
But all in all a great pedal.
fido083 THANK YOU. I've been looking for an answer everywhere.
T rex fuel tank, isolated output silences all the noise this pedal puts out.
Are you a true believer in the balanced tension sets?
+Braden R yes!
So my only point of contention with this entire video is the solution to the loose strings on the 8th string is use a set of 9 to 46 and for your 7th string use a 64 and for your 8th string use an 80 gauge, Ernie Ball makes a set for 8 strings that are nine to 46, 64, 80. No more loose strings. And I play mine in drop e, standard tuning 8 string would be an F sharp buddy not an F.
btw, Henning, would you PLZ consider doing a review of a Boss SY-1 Synth pedal? - 111 presets and a whole lotta fun! Cheers in advance! :)
Nice review. What setting will get me to c#? I'm in standard tuning. Black Sabbath
It should get a mode for detune and still be able to drop an octave. So I could play on E flat + octave...
+EytschPi42 please, could you do a video review of the wonderful catalinbread sabbra cadabra ? Only for Sabbath fans just like me? 😂😂😂
It was fun:) Good rewiev!
Hey Henning! Did you learn about low interval limits when studying? It's an interesting concept, though it's worth noting it depends on intonation/tuning system (Western equal temperament gets messy often). Lots of the time I really like that "grind" of low thirds for example, but as is clear on Piano music chord voicings for example, it's pure mud down in the lows if you do that! Would be really interesting to compare similar on a True Temperament guitar, vs a Fretless where you could have pure intervals. Not to necro-post on an older video ;)
Great review.
I just bought it and i do hear the original pitch sound through the speakers, mainly when i use clean patches, very dissapointing :( (i have it just after the guitar and then into a boss gt-1, also tried it without the boss, still same problem). I kinda stop hearing the original pitch via the speakers if i get it really loud, but not competelly off. Still at such high volume, it is almost unusable for a home... :(. The issue is almost unoticed with dirty/distorted patches (it depends on the specific patch)
That riff in the beginning sounds like Smoke on the Water, just lower.
Hi my friend! Cheers from Mexico...
Please can you make any video about this pedal (Drop Digitech) vs Whammy DT?
Thanks!
hilarious :) i'm still not sure about the pedal but i want to try one
now we need two of them in a row xD
...and into a Miku!!!
what about if you hold the notes and keep change the drop button while you holding the notes.. see what happen..
"Toith like toiger" 21:27 Hands down the best description of "8-strings"" Almost peed myself. come on guys "la physiqa". haha
great rewiev! Thanks for the honest opinion!
LOL 4:00 Dog nopes right out of the room.
Frank Hartung guitar!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED it!!!!!!!
Now you only need to put a capo in the 2nd fret for actual drop E 😁...
Good video my friend, I have the drop pedal, I use it with my POD 2.0 and Mooer Radar, all connected to the wall with their respective original sources, I use headphones to practice at home, but an annoying noise is heard every time I activate the drop, I tested the cables and they are in good condition, what do you think this is due to? Can it be for not using a multiple power supply? Thanks for your response.
Austin Powers Goldmember reference, nice!!
What guitar are you using .....looks and sounds great ...loving the drop pedal
The six string is an ibanez JEM, it's a great guitar
Amazing studio... but that stand is killer!!!
21:37 "Henning.exe has stopped working"
P.s. thanks for inspiring this year's Christmas present to myself ;L
Ich höre bei meinem Drop manchmal eine zweite falsche Stimme drüber, zwar relativ leise aber sehr störend. Die Gitarre ist aber genau gestimmt. Das Phänomen tritt bei mehreren Gitarren auf und hauptsächlich bei den höheren Saiten.
I hear a little bit of smoke on the water in the beginning segment. Cool riffin nonetheless.
Holy crap! GET ON WITH IT!!! Eleven minutes in & I heard the pedal for 30seconds.
YT is non linear... you can skip ahead ANY time!
@@EytschPi42 haha!
Hi Henning, nice vid. Do you have any idea how close you could approach CGCFAD tuning with this pedal ?
Lol yeah. Dropped D down 2 notes. Simple math man.
Hi, fantastic review! How does this fair playing bluesy chords? I'm thinking about A4, D5, G4, B5 together, i think they're diminished 7th chords? Anyway particularly 3 steps down on this pedal, thanks!
Should work fine.
Flipping those "snail head" hand gestures. :-)
min 4:04 dog : god save me from this crazy mdf ....
I’m confused, how did you get it to drop E tuning???? What tuning was your guitar in originally??
dog runs away when he does the metal scream, lol
how the hell have i never heard of lower interval limit
That's a beautiful space...
The difference is so small. I can tell but I rather spend 200 on a pedal and be able to play whatever song I want than buy 4 guitars or have to tune every time I want to learn a song
I know that you are not supposed to play bass guitars into regular guitar amps. Is there any issue using this peddle with a regular guitar amp?
"Drop E" aka a Bass Guitar. There is a reason those are 34 inches (that's what she said?) But hey, we all know, dropping makes it more METAAAAAALLL!!!
But srsly, this thing does a really good job
i have one of these pedal but i notice that i lost the clarity of the hiting stings with the real tuning am i right?
Send this album!!
Nothing for me, but I'm amazed how good the tracking works.
A bit too in depth? Like....
...an octave lower?
That dog is outta there!
Excelent my friend!!! is your song or cover?
this Is just an excercise I wrote for one of my students