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
    @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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4OZ0sqwgLTWm6Q.html

  • @TrentonHawk
    @TrentonHawk2 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

    @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

    @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

  • @pepuletrz
    @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

    @DavidIdk-zn4xl

    2 ай бұрын

    can you do it with a wah pedal to?

  • @pepuletrz

    @pepuletrz

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @shadowdark5452
    @shadowdark54522 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

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @angela_burch
    @angela_burch2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gavinj721
    @gavinj7212 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 ай бұрын

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

  • @Eulennon
    @Eulennon Жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @onemind6160

    @onemind6160

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @Yoshi1up
    @Yoshi1up10 ай бұрын

    Great video! Buying one soon! Thx mate~

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    10 ай бұрын

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

  • @SiinTV
    @SiinTV2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SiinTV

    @SiinTV

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@BrandonBurch This is Zach from Game Jab

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SiinTV

    @SiinTV

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SiinTV Better most recently

  • @chaggasfernandes
    @chaggasfernandes Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. Very Helpful.

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome. Glad it helped you

  • @datooch
    @datooch5 ай бұрын

    The dive bomb was sick.

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    5 ай бұрын

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

  • @BiRDiEHere
    @BiRDiEHere3 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

    @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

    @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

    @shadowdark5452

    3 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

    @BrandonBurch

    3 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!

  • @MyWayne13
    @MyWayne139 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    8 ай бұрын

    🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @kieronjones7971
    @kieronjones797120 сағат бұрын

    Chuck a compressor on before it, tightens up the signal and keeps it consistent

  • @Doug_Burch
    @Doug_Burch2 жыл бұрын

    Cool video!

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dad

  • @armanborloza7981
    @armanborloza7981 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this.

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome Arman. Thank you for watching.

  • @angela_burch
    @angela_burch2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mom! My first Super Thanks!

  • @TheAntarcticaProject
    @TheAntarcticaProject27 күн бұрын

    🔥🔥

  • @Jubidar
    @Jubidar Жыл бұрын

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

  • @smeemusic
    @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

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @smeemusic

    @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.

  • @IDONTEXIST_6
    @IDONTEXIST_62 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

    @BrandonBurch

    2 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

    @IDONTEXIST_6

    2 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

    @MeatCatCheesyBlaster

    5 ай бұрын

    Tony Danza so underrated in the history of djent

  • @rishiraj1205
    @rishiraj1205Ай 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

    @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).

  • @diarrhea_splatter
    @diarrhea_splatter7 ай бұрын

    Pretty damn wholesome video 👍

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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

    @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 👍

  • @MatthijsvandenHoven
    @MatthijsvandenHoven2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 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 KZread who uses this pedal with amp sims so I knew it could be done. :)

  • @dan_mills__791
    @dan_mills__7914 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @dan_mills__791

    @dan_mills__791

    4 ай бұрын

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

  • @devilhorns22
    @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

    @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
    @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

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    It's Canon Rock

  • @TobyKBTY
    @TobyKBTY2 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

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is good to know! Thanks for sharing Toby.

  • @Wes80Rob
    @Wes80Rob2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 жыл бұрын

    👀

  • @izmalcheahmad
    @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

    @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.

  • @MrShadowofthewind
    @MrShadowofthewind3 ай бұрын

    Digitech has quality stuff.

  • @morbidghoul9654
    @morbidghoul96545 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

    @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.

  • @theow771
    @theow7712 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

    @BrandonBurch

    2 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!

  • @drewsleyy3836
    @drewsleyy3836 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh cool! Thanks!

  • @douchecraft3113
    @douchecraft311311 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

    @BrandonBurch

    11 ай бұрын

    It just does nothing. 😕

  • @douchecraft3113

    @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

    @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.

  • @Genjimain27
    @Genjimain273 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    3 ай бұрын

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

  • @FynnFTW
    @FynnFTW17 сағат бұрын

    If only they whould make that somehow more compact. That thing is gigantic.... i have no idea how to put that thing on my pedal board without buying a new pedalboard :S

  • @KhyrisEidan
    @KhyrisEidan10 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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

    @KhyrisEidan

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BrandonBurch Interesting..

  • @peterakws
    @peterakws Жыл бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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

    @hugalahugala5182

    9 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?

  • @JoeMurfitt

    @JoeMurfitt

    Күн бұрын

    ​@@hugalahugala5182yep

  • @NoiseTherapy
    @NoiseTherapy6 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

    @BrandonBurch

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad I could help you 😁

  • @ogkushstain2861
    @ogkushstain286111 ай бұрын

    Is this the only pedal youre using on the amp?

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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.

  • @wayne9934
    @wayne9934 Жыл бұрын

    I want one soon after I get my car registered

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    🤘🏻

  • @Pewtooyou
    @Pewtooyou6 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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

    @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.

  • @davidpenwell3432
    @davidpenwell34322 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah I'm still learning and experimenting

  • @vicesquadpunk
    @vicesquadpunk7 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

    @BrandonBurch

    7 ай бұрын

    I'll try to watch that next time. thanks

  • @guyfromthatthing1017

    @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.

  • @zoundtank
    @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

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

    I did eventually find an application for it in a mix context as it allowed me to downtune quite a bit: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4OZ0sqwgLTWm6Q.html

  • @ahmettiryakioglu_music
    @ahmettiryakioglu_music9 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    9 ай бұрын

    😄 I'm a white socks only man

  • @littlewizard8766
    @littlewizard87662 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    2 ай бұрын

    Sorry to disappoint. I play really low.

  • @AutisticCuriosity
    @AutisticCuriosity Жыл бұрын

    To me it just sounds horrible… nooo

  • @BrandonBurch

    @BrandonBurch

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @sgt.puddingslaps
    @sgt.puddingslaps11 ай бұрын

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

  • @BrandonBurch

    @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

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