What’s the difference between octaver, pitch shifter and harmonizer pedals?
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In this video, I cover the differences between octaver, pitch shifter and harmonizer pedals.
In a nutshell:
Octaver: combines your guitar signal with an octave up and/or down.
Pitch shifter: alters the original signal of your guitar for another pitch completely (often done with an expression pedal)
Harmonizer: sounds like multiple guitars playing in harmony (the same thing as the octaver, but you have the choice of way more intervals to harmonize yourself than just octaves – 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc).
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Octave effects sound horrible. Who even uses them that is anybody?
Thank you very much! I now know i want a harmonizer
Good job, bro!!!
Does Brian May use a harmoniser or octaves, for example on killer queen? It sounds like a few guitars playing the same melody but in different octaves. Can octavers add both a higher octave and lower octave at the same time? So if I hit any string on the 12th fret it would add a duplicate signal up on the 24th and another down on the open note? I tried to do this sort of thing in a daw but layering each one on top of another and i couldn’t get it right, I wasn’t perfectly in sync with the original melody and it sounded terrible. I also think my intonation is not set up correctly because as i go up the fretboard past 12 to 15 sort of region it can sound slightly out of tune so trying to layer 3 guitars over different octaves sounds sloppy as heck. Surely there’s a pedal effect or preset for this. I’m still new to the whole effect pedal side of things so cant explain what I’m thinking of
so an accordion is basically an acoustic harmonizer. ☺
very good explanations thank you very much
Very clearly explained thanks ????
I need a harmonizer with an expression pedal…
Which is best?
Great video! Thank you so much, bro!
The fact that you didn’t freeze frame made this that much better
I appreciate that it’s like three and a half minutes!) ????????
the harmonizer sounds so righteous here 2:22
Good video, I have them all 3 but I still don't know to use them, I mean to make it sound good as I want
can the pitch shifter lower the pitch? instead of higher?
Nice video. Helps a lot
This is a good video with one small but important nitpick: a defining function of harmonizers is the ability to create diatonic harmonies based off of scales and keys. Pitch shifters (which is what the Pitch Fork actually is) can only harmonize at a fixed interval. Meaning, for example, if you set up a pitch shifter to harmonize up a major 3rd and play a C major scale, it will generate an E major scale. This can have its applications but will sound completely dissonant if you're a guitarist or vocalist trying to use a pedal to harmonize within one scale, which the Pitchfork cannot do. If I'm a beginner guitarist looking for a pedal to recreate the solo on "Hotel California" or the middle section of "Master of Puppets", then this video just sold me the wrong pedal.
1:41 I have that exact Degitech pedal and it powers on but no sound. I dont know what is wrong with it But i am selling it on Ebay for parts.
I was under the impression the pitchfork was a pitch shifter. Technically Not a harmonizer???
What was the settings on the pitchfork ?
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Gracias Antoine, un grande.
This was a huge help. It showed me that I don't need any of these pedals. Lol.
Not proper information. True OCTAVER does not pitching the signal to octave down – this will be brought by the Pitch Shifter and Harmonizers. The OCTAVERS synthesizes a new signal from a square, which is obtained from a guitar signal based on the source frequency dividers. In the sound of the OCTAVERS, the source timbre is not heard at all, it sounds simply Sub Bass square synthesizer tone into the tone of the source signal (-1 -2 oktave ). Typically, such devices are built on frequency divisors + Square Synth, not Pitch Shifter. Micro Pog is not an octavers in a classic understanding, it is a common Pitch Shifting processing
I never realised Harry Potter was into guitar pedals!
Straight to the point with sounds. You really answered my question (my youtube search), and you know what? Now you have a new subscriber ????
Oh i like your accent. You sound like George St-Pierre (ufc fighter)
Ça va, Antoine?
And if you wanna replicate the sound of bass on guitar (for record on loop pedal), whats the effect/pedal to be utilized?
Thanks, my friend!
Little babies complaining about the freezeframe lmao
Short and to the point, thank you very much.
thank you. Very helpful
If GSP was a guitarist lol
Super useful! And here i thought i'd have to tune my strings to near breaking point to reach higher pitches!
Really creepy when you just held your finger up and maintained the body position unnaturally rather than just doing a freeze frame in your editing software…
Thanks for the vid tho, I got the jist of the difference now.
Nowww i get it, thanks for simple explanation!
Thank you for the explanation. Can you explain what are the key I need to choose on my harmonizer? A,B,C,D,E.. what does it do to the sound? I try to set it to kiko loureiros tone on ‘overflow’
Thanks for the video. Do you think that a Pitch Shifter can be used to change the bass tuning to follow singer’s need?! I would need to get just the amended sound without the original one.
Great video, very clear and to the point.
Thank you!
very useful, thanks. but why freeze when you play the example music haha
Merci ! Very clear explanations and demo.
Does anybody knows where is the best "place" for a pitch shifter in the effect chain?…. in front of the amp or in the FX loop?
Cheers.
Thanks mate!
Great video. Your explanations are flawless and concise, which is a rarity among other guitar-oriented channels.
Hey there, you've made a great and easy to understand video explaining the fundamental differences between 3 guitar effects that often gets confused.
Even by ppl that have heard them or sometimes even used them.
Keep the good things UP!!!
Merci