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What a lot of people forget is that when you tune down for real, your guitar reacts very differently.
For instance my Ibanez S has a pretty hard rock type of sound normally, but when I drop-D or tune down the wood gives me much more deepness and a warmer bottom end. It’s not the tuning! it’s the resonance of the wood!
But if you play an hour long set with one downtuned song, yeah a pedal would be the way to go.
Quote:What a lot of people forget is that when you tune down for real, your guitar reacts very differently.For instance my Ibanez S has a pretty hard rock type of sound normally, but when I drop-D or tune down the wood gives me much more deepness and a warmer bottom end. It’s not the tuning! it’s the resonance of the wood!
But if you play an hour long set with one downtuned song, yeah a pedal would be the way to go.
I’ve taken to tuning a half-step down all the time these days (to F#) I like what it does to my tone overall. I don’t know if it’s because the strings are a little looser (I play 11’s) but it really seems to make my guitar come ‘alive’ for some reason.
Quote:Quote:What a lot of people forget is that when you tune down for real, your guitar reacts very differently.For instance my Ibanez S has a pretty hard rock type of sound normally, but when I drop-D or tune down the wood gives me much more deepness and a warmer bottom end. It’s not the tuning! it’s the resonance of the wood!
But if you play an hour long set with one downtuned song, yeah a pedal would be the way to go.
I’ve taken to tuning a half-step down all the time these days (to F#) I like what it does to my tone overall. I don’t know if it’s because the strings are a little looser (I play 11’s) but it really seems to make my guitar come ‘alive’ for some reason.
So, check out this pedal! OK, it is not an EHX, but if Morpheus can bring one out, then EHX can certainly go one half-step better!!
Quote:Quote:What a lot of people forget is that when you tune down for real, your guitar reacts very differently.For instance my Ibanez S has a pretty hard rock type of sound normally, but when I drop-D or tune down the wood gives me much more deepness and a warmer bottom end. It’s not the tuning! it’s the resonance of the wood!
But if you play an hour long set with one downtuned song, yeah a pedal would be the way to go.
I’ve taken to tuning a half-step down all the time these days (to F#) I like what it does to my tone overall. I don’t know if it’s because the strings are a little looser (I play 11’s) but it really seems to make my guitar come ‘alive’ for some reason.
Well yes, my Ibanez seems to love the lower tunings, not that it turns instant-metal but just there seems to be more harmonics going on.
The other part is the feel, the looser strings.. well I like it as long as it doesn’t gat flappy and noisy. I play .010-.052 strings.
Quote:Quote:Quote:What a lot of people forget is that when you tune down for real, your guitar reacts very differently.For instance my Ibanez S has a pretty hard rock type of sound normally, but when I drop-D or tune down the wood gives me much more deepness and a warmer bottom end. It’s not the tuning! it’s the resonance of the wood!
But if you play an hour long set with one downtuned song, yeah a pedal would be the way to go.
I’ve taken to tuning a half-step down all the time these days (to F#) I like what it does to my tone overall. I don’t know if it’s because the strings are a little looser (I play 11’s) but it really seems to make my guitar come ‘alive’ for some reason.
So, check out this pedal! OK, it is not an EHX, but if Morpheus can bring one out, then EHX can certainly go one half-step better!!
Please re-read my post and electro-melx’s …
We’re saying that tuning down for real brings out very pleasing qualities in the guitar. (it must be said: not in all guitars, my swamp ash strat turns all buzzy on me
) So the pedal is counter-productive in that sense.I do think the Morpheus pedal is a good idea.. but there are a few aspects already that I don’t like:
– Too big! there’s 9 LEDs on it.. it could easily be XO or nano size
– 3 footswitches are superfluous, even if you were to switch tunings during a song .. how long is the song that you need more than 2 tunings? (original/dropped)
– It doesn’t look very high-quality to me, but I can’t really judge that since I haven’t held it in my own hands.Quote:All is duly re-read, but I sussed first time. Since our topic is not drop tuning but a “Drop Tune Pedal Idea” I considered the Morpheus really interesting and worthy of further mention since it is the first commercialised pedal to appear on the market as far as I know. At least in this price range. I found the demo on YouTube good enough for me to want to try the pedal out as soon as possible. Then I can hear if the pedal delivers or not.
This said, the pedal will definitely not be able to deliver the pure sound of a good baritone or open-tuning guitar…Yes I understand the relevance of your post to the topic, but you quoted my and melx’s posts .. which where about the pure sound of downtuning.
It is great that at least someone made a drop-tune pedal, somehow pedal companies first need some obscure company to start it off before trying their own.. I hope EHX does try their hand at this, I think they can make the pedal the way it should be: simple and very effective.
Is there actually a price known for the Drop-Tune?
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