[Harp-L] Re: pitch shifter

[Rafael Veggi <rafaelveggi@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks again, Richard

I've tried the line6 hd500's "capo" with no satisfying results
the harp tone gets too much present inside my skull, even with a very loud
speaker screaming towards my face while I'm playing a quieter G harp.
Maybe it could work for 3rd, 4th, 5th shifts, with very good practice and
for simple riffs

You've warned me about all this stuff and I have believed you, but I just
had to experiment ;-)

since a friend of mine has lended me his rig, which is a very good one, I
had the opportunity to test the pitch shift, low and high octaves blend,
synth effects and many others

the octaves up and down blends sounded terrific, lots of sweet clarinets,
zest brass sounds and all the crazyness in between with little eq and tone
changes

it's a pity I live in paradise jabuticaba country because an ehx pog or hog
gets sooooooo expensive here, but I'll figure sth out, there are lots of
monophonic octave shifters around there

thanks again




In technical terms, if you set the pitch shift mix to 100%, the original
> harp sound will be removed entirely from the signal chain, and what the
> audience hears from the speakers will be the pitch shifted tone, not the
> original pitch.
> However, as you note, no matter what the audience hears from the speakers,
> the player will hear the original (un-shifted) pitches too. That's why I
> wouldn't recommend to anyone that they try to use a pitch shifter on a
> harmonica the same way a guitarist uses a capo.  A capo affects the pitch of
> the instrument at its source; a pitch shifter affects the pitchafter it's
> already been generated from the source (i.e. the harmonica).  Conflicts
> (for the player) are inevitable when the shift is to an entirely different
> key (as opposed to an octave of the original key).
> This is only a problem with acoustic instruments, of course.  If the
> harmonica was a purely electronic instrument, you could pitch-shift it to
> anywhere without hearing conflicting tones.  But then it wouldn't be a
> harmonica.
> Regards, Richard Hunter
>