Detuner Pedal

Steoob · 10-09-2005 8:43am #1

Hey i was just wondering.... i know its a long shot but if there was such a thing as a detune pedal where you just pressed down and it tunes down to like a tuning youve selected on the knobs or something.. it would be very handy dont ye think? if there's none out there then why not? is there some obvios logical flaw to the idea?

thanks
Steoob

Johnny Storm · 10-09-2005 9:10am

I dont know about such a pedal but you could get the same effect on a guitar which had a Steinberger TransTrem or with a TransScale guitar.

feylya · 10-09-2005 9:29am

Digitech whammy?

Beecher · 10-09-2005 9:35am

Boss PS5 super shifter?

Steoob · 10-09-2005 11:27am

feylya wrote:

Digitech whammy?

a digitech whammy can only detune to d standard i want it to be able to go as low as A standard for korn stuff and then just turn a knob.. tune down the top string and its drop b for slipknot stuff yaknow?

Giblet · 10-09-2005 12:45pm

http://www.eventide.com/profaud/dsp4000b.htm or it will sound like muck. Only €6,000

jcoote · 10-09-2005 4:14pm

detuning is really tough and the above mentioned are about the best out there..or u could always get the trans performance system

Steoob · 10-09-2005 9:27pm

detuning is really tough and the above mentioned are about the best out there..or u could always get the trans performance system

interesting veeeeery interesting how much does it cost?

John · 10-09-2005 9:52pm

Beecher wrote:

Boss PS5 shuper shifter?

It has a detune function but it doesn't work that well. It sounds good but if you want to detune using it, forget it.

Johnny Storm · 11-09-2005 9:23am

The Steinberger TransTrem transposes down to D, C and B and up to F# and G.

If thats of any interest to you here's a demo clip from some old TV show. The first guy is good anyway. EDIT: Turn off after the first guy. If you get far enough to hear the word "bagpipe" it's too late.
Viewers of a nervous disposition may find themselves alarmed by the "fashions" on display here. You have been warned.

jcoote · 11-09-2005 9:29am

dunno what the cost of the trans performance is...drop jimmy page a mail

Shanannigan · 11-09-2005 4:17pm

dunno if this is what you're lookin for but its pretty cool anyhow
http://transperformance.com/index2.htm
i remember seeing this on Beyond 2000 a few years ago

Shanannigan · 11-09-2005 4:18pm

only just realised thats what you were talkin about in the first place... that was a kind of Joey Tribianni moment... ah well!!!

Shanannigan · 11-09-2005 4:20pm

having said that... on the Boss GT-6 there's a detuner... you may be able to programme the expression pedal to control it...

jcoote · 11-09-2005 4:28pm

u can but its kinda dead just sounds like a chorus pedal with a broken eq knob

pats22 · 12-09-2005 11:13am

wouldnt a roland vg88 do this??
it has a list of alternate tuning built into it such as open g etc and you can program your own

Doctor J · 12-09-2005 11:27am

Just buy a 7 string guitar. Most pitch shifted stuff sounds ****e, really, really ****e. Handy for the odd quirky note but you'll just make people feel sorry for you if you try playing chords or riffs, which is what I think you're trying to do.

Paladin · 12-09-2005 2:39pm

Buy a Yamaha pacifica for less than E170 and leave it in the alternative tuning

-=al=- · 12-09-2005 3:18pm

The PS5 is alright it has a trem arm feature and a detune feature u can use both to drop or raise the sound, i use the trem arm down an octave to record bass sounds works a-ok, you cud drop a 5th or 3rd and it would work it might get fussy if u try to do chords though, but it would definitly work for single notes its a great pedal, one of my favs

Shanannigan · 13-09-2005 5:06pm

going back to the Boss GT-6... you can use the pitch-bender pedal as a detuner... using the settings you can program it to bend the pitch a few frets down as opposed to a whole octave

Detuner Pedal

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