Alternate tunings

[scarface84]

What's the difference between a pitch shifter pedal and an octave pedal? Can i use these instead of having to retune my guitar for alternate tunings ?

[Tele Master]

an octave pedal will lower the pitch by one octave. This is more than one whole step on the guitar...this is not like dropping down one tone.

[6strngs_2hmbkrs]

in my experience with pitch shifters and octavers, I have yet to find one that sounds natural... and the lower you drop, the more unnatural it sounds. I wouldn't use it in place of having to retune, but I suppose that you could if you need to, such as you have half the song in drop D and the other half in drop C or something like that... an octaver drops you one octave, which is 12 half-steps, making your guitar sound more like a bass. and a pitch shifter will raise and lower you only a few half steps at a time.

[HDJ]

Yeah, every pitch shifting pedal I've tried just robs the tone. It sounds really "digital" to my ears, which I hate.

And no, these types of pedals are not used for alternate tunings...

[Tele Master]

you cannot program the pedal to go into say Open G or anything like that. Just look at the spec sheet and the BOSS super shifter...on the pedal it has pretty much everything it does and there are even some sound clips