Room for improvement but decent for its price

For a pedal imitating the Digitech Drop at a lower price (and somehow managing to fit a detune function, and dry and wet knobs), I was interested in getting my hands on it (especially after seeing Nik Nocturnal and Andrew Baena make demo videos of it years back). Although a good pedal overall, there is still some room for improvement

Pros: - Like with any other pitch shifters, its forte lies in the 2-3 steps range for the cleanest output. Anything beyond that would undoubtedly start to sound different from a non-pitch shifted one. But for it's price point, it's amazing that it can do it quite decently - Surprisingly, pitch shifting up is much cleaner than pitch shifting down on this pedal. In fact, it sounds better than transposing up using Neural DSP's Transpose function. Using my 7 string with a highest tuning of drop F#, I heard almost zero artifacts when pitching up to drop A#. - Although not the primary function, the ability to detune +/- up to 30 cents is excellent and useful, whether it be chorus effects like the one Eddie Van Halen uses or playing songs not tuned to A=440Hz. If not for this feature, I would have given this 3/5 stars.

Cons: - I really wish they included a power cable, especially since the pedal had a very specific requirement of (ahem) 9v, 5000mA and negative center polarity plug - Unfortunately, D1 (one octave below D) is the lowest you can drop before it gives a whole bunch of pitch warbling and artifacts. No matter what steps you pitch shift down to, that is the lower limit at which the pedal works. - Chugs get less sustain the more steps you pitch shift, but that's to be expected - The lack of a 1 and 6 step pitch shifting so any Floyd Rosers who wanna tune down from E to Eb are fucked (not a huge concern for a hardtail/non-floyd rose trem player like me tho)

So, this is my review for the pedal (so far). Although some of the drawbacks are a bummer, it's not the end of the world and I think this pedal still does its job well and managed to fulfil its intended goals extremely well.

Eureka

Just the missing element needed to make the digital Leslie Sim modulation effects on my board come together to create a convincing B3-122 timbre!