How Good Does Drop Tuning Sound on the Whammy DT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- How Good Does Drop Tuning Sound on the Whammy DT
Today let's see just how good the drop tuning sounds on the Whammy DT. I bought this pedal because I'm a huge fan of the classic Whammy as well as drop tuning and I really wanted to see what this baby could do differently. The drop tuning on this pedal sounds very tight and natural, it's hard to really tell that your guitar is electronically being drop tuned. The new effects as well as the new momentary switch really help broaden the capabilities of this new Whammy iteration. With the momentary switch you can really lock well rhythmically with your music now, you can even switch tunings on the fly. The limits are close to endless with the Whammy DT. How good does drop tuning sound on the Whammy DT? Great! I love it. It's my new favorite pedal.
What kind of pitch shifters do you love to use in your setups? Let me know in the comments below!
use a sub n up mini to make my bass sound like a guitar
@@filthyminds9039 This is the first I've heard about the sub n up mini, it sounds baller! Are you generally more of a bass guy then a guitar guy?
@@DustinAlford was more of a guitar guy until I started listening to the rock duo royal blood. I ended up mimicking their setup (short scale bass going into 3 amps - one clean bass amp and 2 octaved-up guitar amps) Now I don't think I can ever go back to playing guitar again ahaha
@@filthyminds9039 Just listened to em they definitely have a cool unique sound. I can totally see why it'd be hard to go back to guitar after listening to em. Thanks for showing me some new stuff today, I wish you the best on your Bass journey.
@@DustinAlford stay safe mate
6:17 demo start
Thanks
@@DustinAlford Yea, too bad he didn't just say that in the beginning of the video instead of rambling on. I was 5 minutes in and this video is getting a dislike for wasting my time. I don't even know if this dude can actually play guitar and I've sat here for 6 minutes. I'm the dumbass.
@@Meanmotherfkr You clicked on the video. Nobody wasted you’re just impatient
Grow up guitar Karen
@@Meanmotherfkr Just click through the video, it's not that hard, lmao.
I love this pedal. It makes a good chorus pedal as well when set to "Shallow".
Oh yeah I totally agree the shallow mode does really make a good chorus.
@@DustinAlford what is the classic mode in whammy 5, which is not in whammy dt?
Nice video! Sick pick-ups on your Strat, btw! ❤️
Thanks man! these Emg's are awesome.
I want one of those! I always have to keep a guitar drop tuned a whole step just to play Motley Crue songs. This would be really helpful.
It's totally awesome for learning songs, with just a simlle twirl of a knob your tuning is where it needs to be. Motley Crue is awesome, what's your favorite song of theirs to play?
Thanks for posting! I just got one of these and watching you use it gave me some good ideas on what to do with it. I subscribed!
Thank you, I think you'll have a blast with this pedal!
I love my Whammy DT so much I 'm building a new compact board around it which is ironic me thinks... building a super compact board (PT metro 20) around the largest pedal in production?! Anyway, it's looking awesome now if pedaltrain could just send me a board that's actually level I'll be in business!
I’m getting a Jackson Rhoads model soon and I think I’m going to need one of these if I don’t want to keep down tuning it giving that it has a Floyd rose
Smart idea, dealing with the floyd can be a pain, This pedal should help.
Once you get the mechanics down of the floyd it's not that bad but still 100 percent a time consuming thing to do. I had an ec1000 and I have a jackson king v and I bought the 400 dollar model for the passive pickups so I could mod it. I wasn't gonna spend a grand just to tear a guitar down and change everything. I should have kept the ec1000 it was an awesome guitar. I think I'll get the pedal instead of buying another guitar
Just got one its amazing !!
Dustin, sweet demo, also that Strat is fuego yo! Is that a stock trem? Nice playing, you need the footswitch bro, I got one for like $420 but it came with a free Digitech DT!
Instant sub. You’re a dude!
Thanks for the video!
Glad I could help, thanks!
When I bought a Digitech Drop Pedal, I sent it back. Just because I experimented a noticeable latency, which to me was a little bit annoying! Does that pedal have the same issue?
That's too bad man. I haven't used the stand alone drop pedal, but I am guessing it has the same latency to it.
7:33 he has made contact with the aliens.
Ha ha, it gets scary when you see the saucer land outside your window.
I've read a review about this in some guitar magazine 100 years ago. If I remember correctly it can do a lot and if you like experimenting with solos. However I think it best blends in progressive bands/artists style. E.G. Dream Theater, Rings of Saturn (hate space metal). What do u think of down tuning with Whammy? Doesn't it sound artificial comparing to IRL tuning up/down? Any difference on solo? Digital artifacts?
14:50 I like that bullet cable, looks effective
If you hear it downtuned in a recording it is very hard to hear the artificially. Live though at low volumes when you can hear your strings it's a bit off. I got into the whammy because of Satch and Vai. Those guys rule!
@@DustinAlford Yeah that's exactly what I felt when used whammy like simulation on Guitar Rig. If you can't mute your raw strings ring then sooner or later you'll get derailed even if you were Michael Schenker. And High pitch starts sounding worse indeed unlike low tuning
26:56 i feel like i just entered heaven, nice
This thing with clean chords is gorgeous!
So this pedal would do the end solo part of living colours cover of sunshine of your love?
Where did you get that pistol guitar cable? I can't find a single one online lol Do you notice any quality difference with it?
Nice whammy pedal
You've got great taste, I'm glad you liked it, thank you.
@Dustin Alford great Video! Can you tell me what Fender you got there? Absolutely love it👌🏼😍
Thank you, good to hear you like my video and guitar. The guitar is a mexican strat I put together from parts mainly off of ebay. The pickups are an Emg 60 and 81, the bridge is a bladerunner bridge, and the tuners are Fender locking tuners. The body and the neck are both Mexican Fender. The pickguard is a Jim Root style pickguard I bought off of Ebay too.
@@DustinAlford Awesome!!! The Fender looks beyond amazing...think I try a take on a partcaster myself then.
I had problems with a used purchased one that it added some ice picking sound when drop tuning 1 step down, that it sounded like it wasn't drop tuned, you could only tell it was with a digital tuner, even so didn't sounded anything like playing on the fret one step down.
That sucks man. I can tell a bit that it's electronically manipulated but I think the trade off of not having to reconfigure your guitar setup is well worth it.
Whaaaaaaaaat! With him saying that in the beginning i watches this 2x
Ha ha thanks for the extra view man I appreciate it.
Can we get to the pedal already?@?@@!! FML!
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cool, this vid needs chapters it is so long though. Is there any part where he does a dive bomb effect with the pedal? I want to know how that sounds.
At 20:22 I use the divebomb feature while still being down tuned. I can't exactly remember if I do it in standard tuning in this video or not. I do the divebomb in my original Whammy review, but I think I'm in C standard in that video.
How does it behave with additional pedals in the signal chain?
The old Whammy used to buffer the signal and give your pedals an extra boost in juice, this new one however doesn't. From my experience I always have it as the number one pedal in my line to get a pure clean signal and it just works as an extension of your guitar and really doesn't effect your other pedals as much. It does sound cool when you do combine pedals with this such as a flanger, chorus, or delay.
@@DustinAlford sweet! Thanks for the comment.
Hey man, what is that 1/4" / 6,35mm plug in gun style at 15:14? Where did you buy that? Look cool. Thx.
Thank you, I bought it from my local music store 10 years ago the brand is bullet cables, they might still have it on their website.
@@DustinAlford Thank you. Let’s see if I can get one. I am from Austria (Europe). Greetings!
@@alexanderkirchnerat Greetings to you too from the U.S. I have 3 bullet cable cables and they last forever. Hopefully you can get one!
I just got this today! Sick shredding. Do you use an EQ pedal with this as well?
Thank you and congrats! I don't typically use an EQ pedal with this, but you can if you want to change the sound of your pickups before it hits the amp or this pedal. I usually just throw this baby in the very beginning of my signal chain so that it gets the purest sound it can get.
You can, I am; but I'd def def recommend placing the EQ after the DTWDT either before or after distortion, depending on what you're going for.
Are those EMG 81/85 pickups in your Fender?
It's an EMG 81 and a 60 in the neck.
Dustin Alford awesome. I use an EMG 85/60A set.
@@austinfailz Nice, it's a great set. The 60 has a nice sound for cleans.
Do you plug this into the effects loop or in the front of the amp? Best results?
I always put it in the very front of my pedal chain right after the guitar so that it can receive the cleanest signal possible. Most people who use this do the same thing. I've never tried it through an effects loop.
I think he meant plugged in to the front or effects looped but you kinda sorta answered it. Thanks for the demo
Should this go into the FX loop behind the amp or directly into the front
Directly in the front.
can i use this on bass?
Yes, but I don't know how precise the tuning tracking will be. Digitech sells a bass version of this pedal as well.
@@DustinAlford thanks I was debating on getting 2 the normal and the bass because I'm a bassist and guitarist, but that's expensive and would take up a humongous amount of space, so if it works on bass then I'm gonna buy this one (I'll be fine to have to tune my bass it's just a lot of times when tuning my guitar my strings break)
6:20 You’re welcome.
Thanks that'll help a lot of people out.
@4:27
Where do you put the pedal at for the best tone. I put it at the beginning of the distortion pedal chain and it sounds like organs playing with it when I drop any. Octave setting sounds ok. Then I put it in front of the delay and reverb on the send/ return chain and it sounds like organs playing but not as bad and octave sounds better. What am I doing wrong cos I would hate to think I bought a $200 pedal for nothing .....
I put it at the very beginning of the chain before everything.
@@DustinAlford The Whammy would want to see your guitar as undiluted as possible, since it is adjusting the tuning of the guitar. You could probably put it after your wah pedal, but before everything else.
I'd probably set it up similar to this: Wah -> Whammy -> Tuner -> Distortion -> Amp -> etc.
@@austinfailz Thanks for your input I have never put it after a wah before. I have had no problems putting it as the first pedal in my chain though.
@@DustinAlford I just mentioned that because most people seem to prefer having their wah pedal as the first in the chain. Regardless, the Whammy wants to see the guitar as cleanly as possible in order to function properly.
@@austinfailz I agree getting a undiluted tone in the whammy is paramount. The wah at the front of the chain has a different effect to it then later, sounds more like Hendrix. I generally put my wah after an overdrive because I like the shred your face off wah sound.
I just sold a Whammy DT. I wanted to use it as an electronic Capo to sing in lower registers of songs that were too high pitched for me and for female singers when I play the guitar, trouble is when you shift the pitch up or down at low volume you can hear your guitar out of harmony with the Whammy and it's irritating. If you're playing loud in a band you probably won't be able to hear your guitar out of harmony and you should be alright. I'm not in a band anymore so I didn't try that. It also changes your guitar sound, it doesn't sound as good as it did but it's not bad. The dive bomb effect is pretty good but doesn't work too well as a whammy bar vibrato effect when playing surf music etc. I found only 3 useful things on it which weren't that great and not worth the price they're asking; the dive bomb, the 3rd octave and the 4th octave I think, listen for the only two octaves that are in harmony with your guitar, the rest are out of harmony and you'll need to play louder so you won't notice. These are not worth the price they are asking. I payed $245. to get 3 mediocre effects and not the effects I have hoped for. Don't buy it, you will be selling it soon!
Thanks for your perspective. I definitely agree with you on hearing the dissonance between the guitar tuning and the whammy tuning at lower volumes. For Hard Rock and Metal where you have a bit more wiggle room in terms of how crazy and unique the effect can be I still think it's worth the money but for cleaner genres there may be better pitch shifters out there.
@@DustinAlford Thanks Dustin. Yes, for hard rock and metal with volume turned up it may work really well especially in a band situation. I love hard rock and metal. Thanks!
Forgive my ignorance but metal really looks weird on a fender
That price tho! Ouch!
Yeah it's steep lol, but it's still worth every penny.
@@DustinAlford I got it and agree!
@@theshitheads3178 Ha ha, I try not to think of the price to often. It was hard enough to hit the add to cart button when I did buy it lol.
Wow,...all the talk in the beginning had me excited. But to my ears, it sounded like complete dog doo doo dropped down.
Good to hear, that's the sound and vibe I was going for lol.
Andy Summers said it best ... the problem with using effects is you have to be careful you don't just end up sounding like everybody else. I own a Whammy but would never use it the way 99% of Guitar Players use it these days because I hear it so often - there's no surprise anymore. You know what the effect is ... right away ... and it has become much like the Wah Wah in the 70's ... over played and over utilized.
That makes sense. The first time I heard the Whammy it blew me away.
@@DustinAlford Well you'll also notice that Keith Richards never used the Maestro Fuzz again after Satisfaction ... an effect should be a surprise.
Why does it have to be a surprise? If utilized well effects can be used on every song and may be what makes a song memorable.
True say. But as you said, the fun part of any new pedal at least for me, is finding your voice in it, how it works for YOU, and ways to utilize it NOT to sound like anybody else, but to add to YOUR sound.
@@thevelointhevale1132nah thats one perspective, and a pretty stupid one too. And effect should be a surprise? Why.
What if an effect is a part of someone’s sound? Lol idiot, you just wanna sound deep
Sorry for the dislike but with pain comes improvement. This was brutal.
There is a time stamp in the very beginning of the video to skip the talking.
@@DustinAlford I know, but I had to wait through 4 minutes to realize I had to search for it. By that time. I was too frustrated to even care and ended up going to another channel. Hey bro, I'm just providing feedback so you can improve. People are so afraid of hurting people's feelings so people keep making the same mistakes and wonder why what they're doing isn't working. Then they just continue making the same mistakes. Because nobody has the balls to be real with them. I'm cheering for you. It's just a heads up. I was looking to see what the pedal was like. If you want to speak about the history of it then break it into a different video. That would actually be a good test to see if what I'm saying has any validity. Make a "the history of (whichever pedal) then make another video that strictly says "this is what it sounds like and this is what I like/dislike." I'll bet you that you'll see that a lot less people are going to be clicking on the 'history' video. So, if that's what you start your video off with it does not align with why the person clicked on the video. But if you want to talk about the history go for it bro! Just make it a separate video.
@@Meanmotherfkr I bet your a bundle of laughs
@@Meanmotherfkryou wrote all this just to come off as insufferable.
Aww the lil baby got frustrated at a couple of words and went to another channel? Good, get out of here. And next time, don’t write a paragraph that no one will read LOL
Really?
yes