Budding Bloom Dive - Pitch Shifter
Every drop-tuning player knows the dilemma: bring three guitars to the gig, or trust a pitch pedal. The Klowra Dive — the drop-shifter of the Budding Bloom series, wearing a spectacular flaming lion-dancer illustration — makes the second option cheaper and more flexible than ever. Its party trick is dual drop presets: independent DROP A and DROP B knobs each dial in a pitch shift from one semitone down to a full octave (and beyond, with UNI and DIVE ranges marked on the dial), and a footswitch-accessible A/B system toggles between them mid-set. Standard-to-drop-D for one song, full step down for the next, octave dive for the doom closer — one guitar, zero retuning. Reviewers immediately compared it to the DigiTech Drop, the long-reigning champion of drop-tune pedals, and favorably: the Dive's WildSeed DSP tracking handles polyphonic chugging with the low-latency response that genre demands, at a mini-pedal footprint and a friendlier price. The GLIDE control is the creative bonus — it sets a portamento time for the pitch transition, with ATK/RLS shaping, so instead of snapping between tunings you can bend the entire guitar down like a whammy-bar dive or a tape machine losing power. That turns a utility pedal into a performance effect: slow-motion dives, dramatic pitch swells, Rage-style octave stunts. MIX blends dry and shifted signals for detune thickness. Practical enough for cover bands, weird enough for experimentalists — the Dive leaps both ways.
