Digitech The Drop 5-stars Reviews

Amazing to have for tuning on the fly

I primarily bought this for Rocksmith and just playing guitar amp sims on my PC, and it works great. No having to retune constantly between songs, and it sounds good with headphones (recommended so you don't hear the guitar strings which are still in the original tuning of course).

Just a thing that gives you peace of mind and takes out some hassle, also saves your strings a bit due to not having to be retuned constantly.

It is very easy to use (literately just turn the dial and it drops down your guitar tune) and simple straight out of the box.

Best way to get lower tuning without changing strings

Does what it says

Perfect pedal that keeps its promises. It tunes down... Sound stays perfect. A great price/quality piece of equipment

killer pedal, essential for metal practice!

does as promised, changes tunings in seconds. Going from As I Lay Dying (drop C) to Architects (Drop G#) takes 2 seconds. Sturdy build, good quality, comes with power supply. Buy it

Drop your tone easily!

If you like playing in multiple tunings, but don't want to constantly tune your guitar or have separate guitars for each tuning then this pedal is for you! It's built like a tank and comes with its own power supply. I like to put it before the tuner in order to see how the tuning is registered. Great product all the way around!

The most amazing tool in the guitarverse

This pedal is just awesome! With a HSH Floyd Rose and a HH Hardtail (both with push-pulls) and this pedal I can play literally everything, saving me a lot of money in others guitars.

Totally recommended!

Exactly what you need for multiple tunings

I do Rocksmith streams 3 days a week. This is the tool to do it!

Life Saver

This pedal is far most the best in my chain. It saves you from unrelenting time spent down tuning. As for me I play music from ambient to heavy chug modes. Drop tuning all the way.

Pros:

Durable, nice color, effective, reliable.

Cons:

At first it's kinda weird when example your original tuning is drop D and sudden you drop it to C, some latency can be felt but acceptable and you can be used to it.

Most importantly you must have a good guitar string tension in able to maintain big tone in shape.

I recommend this pedal especially for people who owns only one guitar. It will save you time down tuning. "tune less, play more"

Good

It can't go up like whammy DT does. Does its job perfectly though.

I can't remember life before this pedal

Downtuning is always a pain, especially if you have only one guitar and you don't want your strings to sound floppy over some drop B tuning..

I really like this pedal because none of my guitars is set up in low tunings yet, so it solves that problem. The sound is nice, especially if you play with headphones on so that the original sound of the strings doesn't confuse you. I give only 3 stars because in low tunings it becomes heavily digitized and sounds weird. But who cares about what I say. Just plug it in and have fun..

Overall a must have pedal.

Simply great

Super happy with the unit - we play a lot in different tunings and this thing saves me from dragging a bunch of guitars to the rehearsals. If it got broken or I'd somehow loose it I'd re-buy instantly.

Awesome pedal

I only have 1 guitar and it's a seven string Schecter. I use this pedal to reach standard D, D# and C# tuning, or drop C and drop A# by dropping the 6th string a whole step. For those purposes it works perfectly. Below 5 steps down pedal does colour a sound a bit. I compared this pedal with Neural DSP's Gojira plugin which also has these capabilities and it sounds the same to me. I still use this pedal to reduce CPU usage and also it is more convenient.

Perfect for the lazy guitarist who does not want to downtune

Having owned a few pitch sifters over the last years (many years) I was a little bit dubious on the quality of the pitch shift and expected it to be a bit glitchy. However, this unit maintains a clear sound and digital-sounding-free (well at least to about 4 or 5 semitones. Lower does start to sound a bit weird, but I never go that low. So for drop E flat or drop D (or even C at a push) it sounds great in both clean or in high gain. Actually in high gain no-one would have the slightest clue that your sound was being dropped digitally.

Actually more than just lazy, it is actually it has a permanent place on my pedal board, as it is just so damn easy to move to a drop key with out having to tune the whole guitar again and possible adjust the truss rod. I have never used the momentary function, I just keep it set at the desired drop. The display is quite nice that it is not just a rotary knob with the text around the knob there is an LED for each semitone drop, do a super clear indication of of the drop setting you have selected. This pedal is also very useful for a clean octave drop. Really can't fault it.

Nice pedal

It is a super high quality pedal

Amazing

This pedal becomes an essential tool, both for direct and for studio. It simplifies your life: you no longer have to change guitars or re-tune the strings every time you want to play a song in a different tuning.

Pros: 0 latency, good tone (may sound muddy at lower positions, but can be corrected with slight EQ changes)

Cons: Does not allow you to tune higher

An absolute MUST-HAVE item!

Unbelievable how valuable this pedal is to anyone at all no matter what gear you have, it's super affordable and you pretty much never need to worry about playing different songs of different tunings back to back WITHOUT having to change your tunings manually anymore. just set a half-note-pace up to an octave down from your tuning and hit the switch and you're good to go! absolute must have!

It can save time and your strings like 10 times.

I needed this for streaming as people request different tuning songs. And this device save your strings and time and make experience of playing guitar more comfortable. The device itself is well built, comes with adapter with 2 different adapter's plugs. I only wish if it also had option to just not drop tune but also go over E standard tuning. But overall it is a must thing to carry if you want to play 1000s of songs.

Very useful when you can't detune your guitar(or you don't have another guitar at your disposal) and you have to play in a different key.

Drop Tuning made easy

This pedal is very helpful for anyone who has limit access to many guitars with different tuning or just looking for an easy way to go between tuning or creating weird effect.

It sounds excellent and doesn't affect tone negatively. The pedal itself is very rugged and high quality would 10/10 recommend

Best at what it does

I use this pedal to play songs in Drop A on my guitar tuned to Drop D (5 semitones). I also use it on bass and if you're curious, for me it hits it's limit after taking a low A any lower than 2 semitones (still fairly impressive). At the time of this review (mid 2020), I believe this is the best pedal for this job, and definitely at this price range.

It isn't 100% perfect, playing chords at more extreme settings produces some artefacts, however, there isn't really anything else on the market that can pitch shift this low, while retaining playability AND sound quality as high as the Drop.

Seems to be built solid like a tank, wouldn't really be worried about breaking it.