How to Make Your Octave Pedal Sound Good
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- One of the fun things about plugging in is the ability to pitch shift. But is it as easy as just plugging in the pedal and rolling? Not always.
Here we offer some tips and tricks on how to optimize your pitch shifted sound!
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I just learned about 177 things I was doing wrong with my octaving in 9 minutes lol. Thank you Matt, you're doing the Lord's work for us string players!
You're the man!
Pure gold, as always.
Thanks so much!
Really great video, Matt! Thank you so much. I recently bought an NXTa from your store and I've been really enjoying it. I'm in the process of building a pedalboard, and it would be really cool to hear about your process for building one (which pedals to get first, power supply etc). Maybe a topic for a future video?
Love your content!
Best, Juan
Great question. I may have covered a bit of that here: th-cam.com/video/625ZU2fQo94/w-d-xo.html
Great summary, Matt! Great job fitting all that into 10 minutes!
A latency comparison would've been great, too - I've got the Stomp and PS-6 and I'd never dare the fiddly stuff from your example on the latter.
And it's worth nothing that a quiet pick-up may need a boost before the pitch shift for tracking to work correctly.
Funnily enough, despite your disclaimers about the multi fx units, I personally preferred the Stomp to all the other options, lol - maybe I'm biased ^^. But then I'm also not that familiar with the NX's original sound.
Yeah - there's only so much I can cover in a few minutes. And if I go 20 or 30 minutes, no one will watch. It might be worth doing a video just on latency. One of these days, maybe.
Yeah I guess you're right. When I watch long videos, they tend to have maybe only a dozen views. LoL. Well, as I said, great job getting in everything you did in those few minutes 👌
I like the Electro Harmonix Bass9 way better than the EH pitchfork for fast tracking. The Pitchfork tracking didn’t cut it on the lower strings.
Towards the beginning when you were on 'Which to Use, Trust Your Ears'..you skipped over the word Polyphonic. I used to have a Boss OC-3 which was not polyphonic and you can't do more than one note at a time. Maybe on guitar, but on a bowed instrument, it just craps out making awful sounds. Anyway the 'P' on POG stands for Polyphonic, so I thought you should mention it, as it enables you to play double stops cleanly. Thanks!
lol! You caught me. It was on my screen, and I put it there, but as I was shooting the video, there was a command prompt in front of that word and I couldn't see it - so I forgot to talk about it.
Yeah, polyphony is really important with these. Some pedals do well. Others don't.
Thanks for that!
Have any of you used the Donner? Your thoughts? I went for price because I expect to only drop the octave (violin) occasionally. Awaiting its arrival.
If we asked really, really nicely would you do the first three stomp boxes on a CGDAE cello, both octave up and octave down? Please, please, please, pretty please? Even just open strings as short maybe?
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The Harmonist PS-6 adds free vibrato, lol.
A salesman at heart.
what about EHX Intelligent Harmony Machine and Whammy 5?
There are dozens of octave pedals. We only carry a few, so those are the ones we review, but I know of a number of string players who use the Whammy with a lot of success.