Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10272 Location: Nr. Basinggrad, UK
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 9:32 am Post subject: Reasonably priced pitch shift - with harmony?
I'm thinking Zoom G3X multi-effect at £124 is a reasonable way of getting a pitch shifter for playing those songs the singer insists on doing in E flat but you know are E down a half step. It's cheaper than the Digitech Drop and gets me a bunch of other options, too. However... is there a harmoniser that will do that shift? I've looked at one (Digitech?) and it seems to want to go up or down a minor second minimum which won't do it. I don't think the Pitch Fork does, either.
i have a pitch fork and i don't think it detunes a half step? will check when i'm home but it definitely doesn't harmonise intelligently. tracking is excellent though, as is the case with all ehx pedals.
The pitch shifting on the Zoom units is awful, super glitchy and really out of tune. A morpheus drop tune or a Digitech drop are the best options for what you want. _________________ www.gabrielwareing.com
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10272 Location: Nr. Basinggrad, UK
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 11:43 pm Post subject:
Gabriel wrote:
The pitch shifting on the Zoom units is awful, super glitchy and really out of tune. A morpheus drop tune or a Digitech drop are the best options for what you want.
Interesting, my colleague swears by his G5 for pitch shifting. The Morpheus pedal is discontinued. Digitech drop is affordable.
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10272 Location: Nr. Basinggrad, UK
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:06 pm Post subject:
I'm going to revive this thread to point out that the Digitech Ricochet expression-pedal-less whammy is currently £111 on Amazon, gives you pitch shift AND whammy - but the shift is fixed intervals up or down; 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8ve, 2x8ve, 8ve+dry.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Reasonably priced pitch shift - with harmony?
NickS wrote:
I'm thinking Zoom G3X multi-effect at £124 is a reasonable way of getting a pitch shifter for playing those songs the singer insists on doing in E flat but you know are E down a half step. It's cheaper than the Digitech Drop and gets me a bunch of other options, too. However... is there a harmoniser that will do that shift? I've looked at one (Digitech?) and it seems to want to go up or down a minor second minimum which won't do it. I don't think the Pitch Fork does, either.
Minor second is one fret.
The full Digitech Whammy does this well, but isn't the cheapest pedal around. Useful though, for morellols. _________________
Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 10272 Location: Nr. Basinggrad, UK
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:17 pm Post subject:
More a case of "tell the keyboard player to use the transpose button", tbh, if he has one on his Hammond.
I have a minor issue with one of the local guitarists when we do a Steve Miller Band song who insists "that's played in F" when you can tell from the open string sounds it's played as a G shape.
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