DigiTech: The DROP Polyphonic Drop Tune Pedal

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Published on November 24, 2014 7:35:40 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHtCCPbVjOI

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Take a chord or a note and drop it in semitone increments by anything up to (or down to, depending on your point of view) an octave.

DigiTech have nailed this technology. You've heard of The Whammy, right?

The Drop allows you to drop your tuning momentarily (want to make that big fat E chord a big fat D chord for a couple of bars?) or you can decide to latch - there's a toggle that allows both. Excellent.

Setting 1 - Transposes guitar signal down 1 semitone
Setting 2 - Transposes guitar signal down 2 semitones
Setting 3 - Transposes guitar signal down 3 semitones
Setting 4 - Transposes guitar signal down 4 semitones
Setting 5 - Transposes guitar signal down 5 semitones
Setting 6 - Transposes guitar signal down 6 semitones.
Setting 7 - Transposes guitar signal down 7 semitones
Setting OCT - Transposes guitar signal down 1 octave.
Setting OCT + DRY - Transposes guitar signal down 1 octave and adds dry signal

Latency? Yes, but very little. I think it's less than you'd experience with most DAW software versions of similar products. My loose guess is somewhere between 64-128 samples which is very reasonable and useable given the size, price point and feature set of The Drop.

Tone loss? None to speak of considering the crunching this little engine has to do in such a short amount of time. I hope I demonstrate this in the video

True Bypass? Yes.

Easy to operate? Couldn't be easier.

There's a Dry/Octave below setting as well.

Useful? Absolutely. Fun? That too.

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Guitar: PRS Studio 10-top. Stock.
Amp: Laney VH-100R Clean Channel & L212 Cabinet (Greenbacks).
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