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Half-step detuner pedal. Is there such a thing?
- Thread starter BigBadBen67
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I use this, its awesome, its highly dependent on what you feed into it...passive, or low output basses work better, but it does always work
In a room by myself, I can totally hear that I'm using something alien... However, I use it religiously and have been since the day that it hit the shelves. In the band mix, it sounds great.
My guitar players are sound freaks and they don't notice it in the mix at all... I refuse to drop or switch instruments and clumping all of our drop tunes into the same blocks on the set list sucked.
Problem solved!
My guitar players are sound freaks and they don't notice it in the mix at all... I refuse to drop or switch instruments and clumping all of our drop tunes into the same blocks on the set list sucked.
Problem solved!
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More like -1 am I right?
+/- for the drop also. Good for half step, whole step drop tuning. With my current band I just use it a lot for the octave down.
Alternative suggestion - get a second bass or a program like Transcribe!
Worth mentioning an overdriven signal sounds better than a clean bass signal with the drop especially once going past two semi tones. Still sounds descent with clean signal at one and two semi tones down but personally I found it better with higher drive settings using the drop. YMMV
Edit: More importantly adding a compressor before the drop will make tracking much better.
Edit: More importantly adding a compressor before the drop will make tracking much better.
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Transcribe is a great software program. I've been researching it lately and think I'm gonna buy a copy.
I play bass in one band, bass and keys in another and guitar in a third. One tunes down 1/2 step, one tunes a whole step for a couple of tunes and one plays in standard tuning. Transcribe just makes the whole experience of learning and practicing tunes so much easier.
Digitech dropwas the first thing I thought of, I think the Ehx pitch fork does it as well. The smallest interval drop on the bass whammy is a full step so it’s only option is if you want to try to use the full step setting and use the rocker to get it in tune which is possible if you have your tuner after it but if you or anyone onstage touches the pedal it’s going to get off. In any case I wouldn’t use them to record but if you’re playing a gig and it’s just one song here or there it might do the trick. A general rule with those types of pedals is the farther from the actual pitch you’re playing the more artificial they sound. So if it’s just a half step it's not too bad sounding. If you try to shift them a 5th or something though they start start sounding weird to me.
LOL! I did develop a problem with noise in the PF. Didn't die but did get noisy on me. I sent it to EHX under warranty, and within a week I had it back fixed. Been fine ever since. So I give a big thumbs up to their CS.
Thanks for all the replies. There's sooooooooo much more out there now than there was when I was playing back in the 80s!
