The guys at Morpheus produce only two guitar pedal products and they are the Droptune and Capo. I am a big lover of those business’s use the motto that if you do something good then stick to it. It’s best to leave all the bells and whistle to somebody else because inevitably they will screw up a some point in time, probably more sooner rather then later. Today’s post will be about the Droptune Pedal.
From most of the reviews that I have been reading about the Droptune, most say that this product is VERY straight forward to use. Since most men are not all that inclined to read manuals, this is a big plus! It also doesn’t alter the quality of your sound that much. Some pedals are just plain brutal in this area.
On the back of this pedal, it comes with a USB port for the latest update patches from Morpheus as well as a trim button for guitar levels.
The Drop Tune pedal allows you to change keys, or shifts the pitch of your guitar on the fly at the touch of a knob. Metal guitarists can get that heavy drop-tuned tone without dealing with that floppy string buzz feel that you can get when you tune down, you guys know what I mean.
This is a relatively cheap way to achieve this kind of effect. I understand that there are other products out there that are much more dedicated like the Robot Guitar, Tronical Powertune, the Line6 Varix or the Transperformance tuning system called the Performer but they cost much more.
I also believe that if your a singer/guitarist and your voice is a little bit raw from last nights’ show, here you can drop your guitar tuning a pitch or two for that song that is played in an higher vocal range without having to physically tune down your guitar. Also if your play in a theatre band that has songs that are constantly changing keys, this would be a very useful tool to have in your belt!
The only thing that I don’t like is that you have to use a power adapter instead of batteries.
So does anyone out there use this pedal? If you do, please drop us a line about the pros and cons of it.
Keep on Jammin’
If your interested in getting one then check out the link below!
I have this pedal and use it with my Gibson semi acoustic guitar. The pedal makes life so much easier because you can drop an entire octave without having to manually downtune. Very useful piece of gear but would be much more convenient to use if it were battery powered rather than an adaptor.
~Daniel, UK
Ah, someone else who likes the battery option in pedals! Daniel, I don’t know why companies include them in their design?Why don’t they listen to us guitarist, any ideas?
Do you own an ES-335? I love those guitars buddy. I wish that I could go out and pick one up right now. I guess I have to wait until we pay off our house! Nice site you’ve got there.
No batteries sucks. But I have a one word solution so you won’t even need to bother detuning if you want a dense, heavy sound (unless you can’t sing that high of course…)
Baritone.
Thank You.
Nice comment Dave, it makes sense to me! I wonder if anyone here else gets it?
I want to try this out, as I am not one to be able to change my tuning fast on the fly, and that loose string feeling the article mentions when you detune strings is annoying.
That loose string sensation really drives me NUTZ too Tom, that is why the Morpheus Droptune Guitar Pedal seems like the next logical step?
Sounds like a great pedal. Especially being able to lower the octave. There are days when you just can’t reach that level you usually do.
The lower octave would be a perfect colour to add to anyone’s sound there music lover.
It just sounds to me like the guitar music you produce is going to sound very processed and slightly disconnected from your fingers. Id like to be proved wrong though : )
That is a GREAT point of conversation Electric Guitars.
Before I got into pedals, I was of thinking that if you use pedals your cheating plain and simple. Then I gradually started introducing chorus, a boss BF1 Flanger and finally distortion pedal. The distortion pedal was to make it easier to transition from a clean sound, a HIWATT does that very well, to that sound.
Then I started listening more and more and thought that if you apply SOME of these newer pedals to your arsenal, they actually enhance and thicken your sound. I don’t think I made that point clear enough my friend … I must of been thought/verbally challenged during the writing of this post ! 😉
I’d love to try this pedal, I am mostly too lazy to go to drop C tuning and when I finally tune that way I am annoyed that the strings feel too loose.