recensie
recensie
The best tracking analog pitch shifter ever. It'll pitch shift chords without significant glitching. For up/down one octave it kills the EH octave multiplexor, the Boss OC2, the Blue Box-anything else I've tried! And no delay, like on digital pitch shifters. The feedback is very cool-like running pitchshift and delay on a digital processor. It's not intelligent, so that what's in tune on the low E string may be out a bit on the high E string, high on the neck BUT it's better than it has any right to be (using a tuner, it's maybe a few cents flat at the bottom, a few sharp at the top). Not noisy if the gain is right. Tried it with humbucker and single coils-no problem. NB-it has to be first in your signal chain-needs a clean signal and a steady hand to work best. Hook a CV pedal up the the first channel and you can do analog whammy stuff-very strange!
the thing that separates this thing from other pitch shifters is the "regeration" knob. the pitch outout is fed back into the unit creating a sort of fractal pitched-feedback sort of thing. it's great for weird sounds and heavy comb filter-esq FX, but pretty useless for actual pitch correction, or realistic (non-darth or chipmonk) sounds.
no MIDI. There is a CV jack that i've never used, but it implies a foot controller could be used. The 4 knobs, (which are actually kinda cool, as the're capacitance-switched knobs; you just touch 'em and it'll switch over.) are it as far as setting different pitch values: one at a time, switch betwixt them by touching the knobs. 2 rack units & "optional" 1 RU display unit.
I know it's old, but it is the best of the "pre-digital" pitch shifters. Operation is fairly straight forward, with 4 presets, bypass and regeneration. The matching footswitch allows selecting any preset or bypass. Use when using the optional digital pitch readout can be MUCH simpler if you learn to interpret the tonal-mathematical relationships
