First Impressions of my DigiTech Whammy DT Drop Tune Pedal

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I've heard this pedal on a lot of records, and I've always wanted one. Now I finally get to own one. I found it at a good deal, used on Reverb.com, thanks to Sam Ash Music. Please excuse my noobness as I try this out for the first time. I felt the wonder of discovery as I did when first started guitar and tried new gear.
Watch as I discover all the features of this DigiTech Whammy DT pedal.
0:00 Setup
0:38 Drop tune
1:42 Latency (Buffer Settings)
2:48 Octave + Dry
3:07 Shift Up Tuning
3:41 Momentary
4:26 Whammy
5:15 Dive Bomb
6:06 Detune
6:30 Harmonies
7:13 Final Discoveries
7:58 Thank you
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GEAR & SOFTWARE INFO:
- Performed on an Ibanez RGDIX7MPB
- Recorded into a 2nd Gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
- Amp sim: Ninja by NaLex / Cab sim: GGD Zilla Cabs
- Audio edited in Reaper
- Main shot on Sony A7IV + Tamron 17-28 f/2.8
- Closeup shot on Sony A7C + Sigma 28-70 f/2.8
- Video edited / graded in Davinci Resolve Studio 17
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@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Now watch what I've been doing lately with this pedal. I detuned to Double Drop C with this pedal for this cover! Watch here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7WVo8uotbfUm3U.html

@pepuletrz Жыл бұрын

i put a sponge under what ever end for the automatic come back..try it but lets keep it our secret.

@DavidIdk-zn4xl 2 ай бұрын

can you do it with a wah pedal to?

@pepuletrz 2 ай бұрын

totally.... just gotta find the rite material..

@shadowdark5452 Жыл бұрын

Hey Brandon! Good to see another gear testing/unboxing video from you. Congrats on your new toy. I think you'll make great use of it!

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Hey man :) Thanks for your continued support. These videos are fun!

@TrentonHawk Жыл бұрын

Thank You, Thank You Brandon! Love Gear reviews especially when you are learning as you go for all of us! I get so much more relevant and useful information from it. This "First Impression" Vid is great to watch and learn from. Cheers to you for taking the time to post! BTW, Your Cover of "Black Lungs" is flat out incredible and I watch it at least 3 times a day as I am trying to play it on guitar but I am not at your level yet but I will get there one day!

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Hey Michael! Thank you for watching. I'm glad you got a lot out of the video. Also I'm happy you enjoy my cover of Black Lungs so much! Rock on!

@user-uj6yu1jk2b 6 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurchis there a difference in sound between W5 and Dt in dt there is no classic mode, what does this mean

@angela_burch Жыл бұрын

Congrats, Brandon! I'm really liking your studio vibe. 🙂

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mom, it's come a long way, so I'm glad you like it. :)

@chaggasfernandes Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Very Helpful.

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Glad it helped you

@Yoshi1up 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Buying one soon! Thx mate~

@BrandonBurch 10 ай бұрын

Glad this helped you! I appreciate you letting me know. :) Have fun!

@Eulennon Жыл бұрын

Oh my god, RED-FEED THE MACHINE RIFFS, this is brutal, saudations from a Brazilian guy 🎉

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Hey there! Thanks for noticing - and hello to Brazil from the USA!

@onemind6160 4 ай бұрын

Glad I wasn’t the only one who notice that 😂

@armanborloza7981 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this.

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Arman. Thank you for watching.

@SiinTV Жыл бұрын

So glad I found your channel again! Love your videos buddy!

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining us! I really enjoy having my fans. I'm blessed to have you.

@SiinTV Жыл бұрын

@@BrandonBurch This is Zach from Game Jab

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Oh yes I remember this channel name now :) Welcome back Zach

@SiinTV Жыл бұрын

@@BrandonBurch Thank you! How have you been buddy?

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

@@SiinTV Better most recently

@gavinj721 2 ай бұрын

Was not expecting to hear Reds Feed The Machine riff. Caught me off guard😂😂. Great song

@BrandonBurch 2 ай бұрын

🤘🏻 Yeah rock on! One of my favorite of the few riffs I know.

@Doug_Burch Жыл бұрын

Cool video!

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dad

@angela_burch Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mom! My first Super Thanks!

@datooch 5 ай бұрын

The dive bomb was sick.

@BrandonBurch 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. It was pretty cool! I miss my Floyd Rose sometimes though. As an option.

@MyWayne13 8 ай бұрын

Give up give up and feed the machine! Nice choice of riff sir

@BrandonBurch 8 ай бұрын

🤘🏻🤘🏻

@TheAntarcticaProject 23 күн бұрын

🔥🔥

@diarrhea_splatter 7 ай бұрын

Pretty damn wholesome video 👍

@BrandonBurch 7 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for that. I had some criticism on this one for some reason which is why I'm always shy about demo and review videos.

@diarrhea_splatter 7 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurch I really enjoyed the excitement you showed when you figured something out. My wife did that last week with her knitting, so I get it. Keep up the great work dude! *Edit* I find myself like you when I figure out something with my Quad Cortex or PolyEffects Beebo. Definitely gets the creative juices flowing 👍

@BiRDiEHere 3 ай бұрын

This is the same effect you used at the end of your song "Virtual Reality" from Disconnection (3:43). Awesome video Brandon!

@BrandonBurch 3 ай бұрын

Cool! Sometimes I think I want to remix my Disconnection album to make the guitars and overall clarity better. It's hard to listen to these days. Also have writer's block for a new album anyway.

@BiRDiEHere 3 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurch Yeah it would be awesome to hear like a 2024 re-recorded or remastered album of "Disconnection". It's definitely still one of my favorite albums!

@shadowdark5452 2 ай бұрын

Hey Brandon! I'm back... again 😅 Been watching your new videos and rewatching some of the old ones 😊 About the writers block - If you have some ocd, or you think that your ideas are not good enough - don't think about it. My friend has the same thing - he writes a lot of demos, lots of great material and he's too hard on himself. Just be yourself - you don't have to proove anything; I'm still ocassionaly listening to Freefall: Alpha and Disconnection. Great albums. And of course, one of my old time favourites - Shadow. The chorus to Shadow is stuck in my head still to this day, after all these years. I'm not kidding - my top 3 metal choruses are from Shogun by Trivium, Shadow, and Taking over me by Evanescence. So, Brandon - give us more of your art!

@BrandonBurch 2 ай бұрын

@@shadowdark5452 thank you for the encouragement and reassurance. :) maybe I'll have to finish my songs I shared that were unfinished from last year. Had a good time with that video at the beginning of the year. But lately I've been into trying VR for the first time. Got some content I'm recording and editing for the gaming channel : Beyond Xen. VR is so fun!

@Jubidar Жыл бұрын

"That's how you get that Brian Welch sound" - translation -> Head from Korn. :)

@IDONTEXIST_6 Жыл бұрын

Ugh, I’m gonna need one of these😂 I’ve got 2 guitar tracks specifically for octave down and octave up, to get that (Humanity’s last breath, Reflections, Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza) sound😍

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Ah yes! Another idea for tracking octaves! Great thought! That is going to be handy. Thanks for sharing with us and thanks for watching.

@IDONTEXIST_6 Жыл бұрын

@@BrandonBurch I’ve watched your content since the “Granny is heavy metal” days! Im excited to see what you come up with with this pedal!

@MeatCatCheesyBlaster 4 ай бұрын

Tony Danza so underrated in the history of djent

@smeemusic Жыл бұрын

I grabbed one of these up a few years back. Absolutely love it. BUT it has a rather large footprint. I have a wah on my board as well. So to be able to have a whammy effect I ended up picking up a pitchfork+ as well as a mission engineering expression pedal. Now I can tuck away the actual pedal under the hood on my pedal board and just use the expression pedal right next to my wah. The pitchfork+ does all the whammy stuff at equal performance. It's just smaller and more flexible. But I still won't get rid of my whammy dt. Its just powerful af. Theres also midi mods for the whammy dt that do some cool stuff. Like make it a phaser or chorus.

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Cool to hear how you've done your pedalboard Dustan! Thanks for sharing with us.

@smeemusic Жыл бұрын

@@BrandonBurch hell yeah man. I actually got bit by the gear acquisition syndrome. Its a crippling disability on the best of days. Lol I was tone chasing the perfect head for years. I finnaly found it with the EVH 5150 el34 100 watt head in 2020. For me it doesn't leave much to be desired. I had to grab a few extra things to get the amp to communicate well with MIDI but ever since, I've been grabbing up all the coolest toys I can. All I'm missing now is The Fart Pedal and a good synth pedal.

@MrShadowofthewind 3 ай бұрын

Digitech has quality stuff.

@dan_mills__791 3 ай бұрын

Sean from the band While She Sleeps does some GORGEOUS stuff with a pair of whammy's!

@BrandonBurch 3 ай бұрын

Nice! I'll check them out! The lead guitars on "To The Flowers" was cool!

@dan_mills__791 3 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurch To The Flowers is riff of the year for me already! Utterly gorgeous!

@TobyKBTY Жыл бұрын

Just got one last month, and It’s massive fun. I have 3 guitars (a baritone 7 in F#, a standard 7 in drop A/standard E, and a 6 string in drop D) I can cover pretty much anything just with the pitch shifter alone. Just note that the lower you go it sounds more artificial, BUT still useable with EQ tweaking

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

This is good to know! Thanks for sharing Toby.

@rishiraj1205 Ай бұрын

Hey man! Awesome vid! For a seven string with drop A tuning, how low can we go without compromising the tone meaning, still be able to play chords and have clarity?

@BrandonBurch Ай бұрын

I find that anything below 2 semitones starts to degrade the signal - or I should say - starts to muddy it. But it works okay for up to 4 or 5 semitones down (or up).

@Wes80Rob Жыл бұрын

Feels like I've heard about you getting this somewhere...

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

👀

@MatthijsvandenHoven Жыл бұрын

drop tuner + amp sim on your pc is a nice recipe for latency...

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Yep, and I knew there would be. (as I said in the video) But I'm comfortable with my setup. I'll just have to deal with it. I talked to another dude on KZfaq who uses this pedal with amp sims so I knew it could be done. :)

@devilhorns22 Жыл бұрын

Man I was really hoping after being out for over a decade that they'd have this latency on a tighter leash. I'm still gonna get this though.

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Yeah man I feel ya. I did use it for my latest cover so it really helped me down tune 2 half steps like I'd hoped. 🤘🏻Have fun and thank you for watching!

@MT_800 Жыл бұрын

That tune around the 6:33 mark sounds really cool with the pedal. Also sounds familiar, what's the song called? :)

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

It's Canon Rock

@drewsleyy3836 Жыл бұрын

the point of the detune section is to be chorus! Try it a little cleaner, you'll definitely dig it

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Oh cool! Thanks!

@theow771 Жыл бұрын

Hey, I wanna buy a new 7-string at the end of the year, would you recommend buying a static one and getting a pedal like this, or just finding one with a whammy built in?

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

I'd personally want a 7 without a trem bridge so I could change tunings if I wanted to. With this pedal that makes things a little easier but if it's a Floyd Rose then if your string breaks , the guitar goes out of tune because all the tension is being held by strings. Unless you want the whammy bar on the guitar .. Thanks for watching!

@izmalcheahmad Жыл бұрын

Does DT Whammy and Drop Tune pedal the same? The performance, etc? I have Drop Tune pedal, but the thing is, you can't tune up, but if with DT Whammy, you can. So it means that, it's the same right?

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Yes, I would assume the performance would be the same, but I don't know for sure. I would think only difference is the amount of things this whammy pedal can do to the signal instead of just Drop.

@douchecraft3113 11 ай бұрын

What happens if you use the pedal (on the pedal?) without the Whammy feature engaged? Does it become like a volume pedal or something?

@BrandonBurch 11 ай бұрын

It just does nothing. 😕

@douchecraft3113 11 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurch oh dang, seems like a missed opportunity there, especially for the price tag. Anyhow - thanks for the video and response!

@BrandonBurch 11 ай бұрын

@@douchecraft3113 indeed so! I think it must be because it's pre-effects and not a post volume effect. It would pretty much be just like maybe turning down the gain volume on my knob on my guitar.

@NoiseTherapy 6 ай бұрын

Damn! I’ve had a Whammy DT for over 3 years and only just now learned that the momentary switch is reversed when drop tune is activated! 🤦🏼‍♂️😆

@BrandonBurch 6 ай бұрын

Glad I could help you 😁

@morbidghoul9654 5 ай бұрын

Any replies would be appreciated. So , I’m running a 5150 Iconic and for some reason with this pedal, I experience a volume drop when engaging just the whammy ? Only thing I’m running in front of it is a tuner . I’m into my effects loop as well. Hmmm. 🤔

@BrandonBurch 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I was watching Nick Broomhall the other day and he noticed that difference when looking at the DI in his DAW. Looked like it was a lower output. Not sure why that would happen but that sounds like what's happening. I haven't noticed it myself though.

@peterakws Жыл бұрын

Can you drop down 1/2 steph ? Or only hole steph ? Thanks 🤘🏻

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Yes you can drop down a half step. That's actually what's happening when I use the shift up or shift down knob. It's numbered in half steps; also known as semitones. It goes all the way to 7 half steps down (or up) and then it jumps to an octave -- which is actually 12 semitones from its octave.

@hugalahugala5182 8 ай бұрын

Hello, noob question. Could you please explain what do you mean by half step down, full step down? For example If I tune an E Standard guitar half step down, it will be Eb Standard? And full step will make it D Standard?

@wayne9934 Жыл бұрын

I want one soon after I get my car registered

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

🤘🏻

@Pewtooyou 6 ай бұрын

Starting with you guitar tuned to natural E would have made this review 100% better.

@BrandonBurch 6 ай бұрын

Except that I played the way I use my guitar on the regular. It's unique to me. 😊 It would be boring to do whatever everyone else might do.

@Pewtooyou 6 ай бұрын

@BrandonBurch I gotcha...I was looking at it as more of a review than a personal preference...Still sounded great though.

@Genjimain27 3 ай бұрын

Does this come before or after the distortion pedal???

@BrandonBurch 3 ай бұрын

I would put it before the distortion pedal so the DI itself is affected first.

@KhyrisEidan 10 ай бұрын

What's the difference between DigiTech Whammy DT Drop Tune Pedal and the Digitech XP100?

@BrandonBurch 10 ай бұрын

I hadn't heard of it before, but it looks like the XP 100 is the older version. Except that I noticed that it has a wah effect in it that I don't think my whammy drop tune pedal has.

@KhyrisEidan 10 ай бұрын

@@BrandonBurch Interesting..

@ogkushstain2861 11 ай бұрын

Is this the only pedal youre using on the amp?

@BrandonBurch 11 ай бұрын

I'm using an amp setup virtually in my DAW but I can't remember specifically what. This pedal is just used for the pre effects.

@vicesquadpunk 7 ай бұрын

The delay isn’t great on those DT things… I’m intrigued as to why you have a lot of high end on the guitar tone brother… it’s almost painful on earphones, maybe that’s what you want! Anyhoo.. thanks for taking time to share, sending regards from London 🇬🇧 UK

@BrandonBurch 7 ай бұрын

I'll try to watch that next time. thanks

@guyfromthatthing1017 5 ай бұрын

Oh god, holy bangers and mash my good man, bro is showing his unfettered exploration into a feature heavy pedal he is unfamiliar with; if we were just hanging out, figuring out what sounds we could get out of it-this is what it would be like. Got to overlook the clash of high end EQ on this considering one of its most popular uses is dramatically raising / lowering pitch… I’ve used the pedal for many years. I sold it got rid of it. I bought another one. Glad I didn’t get rid of this one. A footnote I don’t know if it’ll be helpful, but I found that drop tuning warble artifact can be obviated by use of a compressor. I use SP compressor… and it gets you good all the way down to around LED 5, which is bonkers. Seems like a wasted thing, but it actually will smooth that warble out… Not like many people will need that but I have needed it and it worked. Now I use the thing for cooler stuff- and I’ve been using the ricochet and went back to this. God save the queen.

@davidpenwell3432 2 ай бұрын

Gain doesnt have nearly enough low end or tightness to even hear the notes

@BrandonBurch 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm still learning and experimenting

@zoundtank Жыл бұрын

Whithout any intention of demerit the effort... Although your tone is set to your specific genere, it gets way too much in the way of having a clear appreciation on what the pedal is doing.

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

I did eventually find an application for it in a mix context as it allowed me to downtune quite a bit: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7WVo8uotbfUm3U.html

@ahmettiryakioglu_music 9 ай бұрын

White socks dont go well with whammy, try a yellow pair

@BrandonBurch 9 ай бұрын

😄 I'm a white socks only man

@littlewizard8766 2 ай бұрын

really dissappointed you chose to do this review in such a low tuning for the standard.

@BrandonBurch 2 ай бұрын

Sorry to disappoint. I play really low.

@AutisticCuriosity Жыл бұрын

To me it just sounds horrible… nooo

@BrandonBurch Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a cheap way to achieve an effect. Not for everyone. :)

@sgt.puddingslaps 11 ай бұрын

Damn wish I found this video before buying 7 guitars for each tuning 🥲

@BrandonBurch 11 ай бұрын

Well the added latency is one downside to this pedal. I see this pedal as a thing that ties me over until I can afford an 8 string and a 9 string to go along with my 7 string. Then I will have guitars with strings 6 through 9. Haa