Re: [Harp-L] Stupid question about Digitech processors

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Eventides are nice, no doubt about it.  They're awfully pricey
though -- well north of a thousand bucks, if I remember correctly, for
the baseline models.

A number of reverb units from Lexicon, TC Electronics, etc. starting at
$200 new and up, will do pitch shifting too.  Things to watch out for
include:
- how good does the pitch-shifter sound?  Does it color the sound of the
pitch-shifted material?
- how well does it track with a microphone?
- does it track chords as well as single notes?
- how quickly does it respond to an incoming sound?  Do you hear a
notcieable lag between the start of the initial note, and the start of
the pitch-shifted note?

I find that my RP200 does most of these things better than my Lexicon
MPX100, which is a $200 reverb unit. Of course, the Lexicon cleans the
RP's clock when it comes to reverbs, chorus, and flanging.

Regards, Richard Hunter
hunterharp.com


> Slim Heilpern wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard -
> 
> I was indeed referring to the vocal 300 harmonizer effect.
> 
> I checked out the samples on your site and they do sound really good!
> And for some applications I'm very happy with the harmonizer. But if I
> listen critically, I think there are tuning problems, not for all
> pitches but some sound pretty far off to my ears. One of these days
> I'll hook up to my strobe tuner and see how far off it really is
> (positive I'm not imagining this ;-).
> 
> Also, the harmonizer adds some dirt to the sound, which can be good
> but is not always desirable. I had recently bought my 300 when I went
> to see Joshua Redman play in a small club and was absolutely floored
> at how beautiful his harmonized tenor sax was (not to mention that I
> was floored, as usual, by his playing -- but that's another story). It
> was crystal clear, very in tune, and the bottom end was absolutely
> beautiful and powerful. Not sure which model I was hearing, but he had
> a couple of Eventide processors sitting next to him on stage.
> 
> Not to knock the RP300, it's a wonderful effects box for the price and
> I continue to use it in my setup. I am curious to see what an eventide
> sounds like with my chromatic though....
> 
> - Slim.
> 
> www.SlideManSlim.com
> 
> Richard Hunter wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about the Vocal 300 harmonizer, or the pitch shifter
> > in
> > the RP300A?  The pitch shifter in my RP200 tracks well and is in
> > tune.
> > (The whammy effect, a different kind of pitch shifter, isn't in
> > tune,
> > but that's a different story.)
> >
> > You can hear samples of a couple of octave-shifted RP200 sounds at
> > my
> > website at:
> > http://www.hunterharp.com/DigitechRP/
> > You'll see a bunch of folders there -- one of them is for sounds
> > pitch-shifted down an octave.  I think the stuff sounds in tune. See
> > what you think.
> >
> > Regards, Richard Hunter
> > hunterharp.com
> >
> >
> >
> >