Harmony Pedals??

IvisonGuitars

As some of you may have gathered by now, I'm a traditionalist/minimalist when it comes to pedals so I have NO idea what I need ...

But what I want is to be able to do is approximate harmony guitar parts in a southern rock style, a la Allman Bros with one guitar.

What's out there that is pretty easy to use and sounds good?

Bare in mind I don't know a Hog from a Pog etc...

mike_l

As good a place to start as any

http://www.coda-music.com/boss-harmonist-pedal-p-13341.html

 

the Boss unit.

IvisonGuitars

Thanks @mike_l, I had one of these and couldn't get a decent sound out of it! Too confusing for me! Perhaps I'm just simple...

So anything a little simpler on the market for the simple?

joeyowen

Make sure you run them after your gain, that helps a lot! I have a boss ps5 for years, liked it a lot! Then got a pitchfactor which was great! Also m13 was OK.

But the key to then we're placement in the chain

rich75

The Digitech Harmonyman is good - you can save four presets and it can be set up to sense the key you're playing in and generate an appropriate 2-part harmony.

It also has a loop for your drive pedal(s) so that the input sees a clean signal but the effect is applied after the drive.

It's really easy to use - I've probably managed to make it sound more complicated than it actually is!  

IvisonGuitars

Thanks @rich75, that looks ideal!

hubobulous

Just out of interest, how come people recommend that harmonisation goes in the loop, (which I agree with), but that a Whammy should go first in the chain.

Is pitch shifting really so different as to require a much earlier position in the order?

mike_l

hubobulous said:

Just out of interest, how come people recommend that harmonisation goes in the loop, (which I agree with), but that a Whammy should go first in the chain.

Is pitch shifting really so different as to require a much earlier position in the order?

I think (And no doubt someone else will think differently) that pitch shifting is altering the original note, and harmonisation is adding an extra note to the original note. (If that makes sense)

frankus

I think that's the only reason people say put it first is so the note detection has a better chance of matching some pedals have a seperate line in for note detection and signal to harmonise - that sounds pretty cool

Ianpdq

one of these