Reasonably priced pitch shift - with harmony?

[NickS]

I'm thinking Zoom G3X multi-effect at £124 is a reasonable way of getting a pitch shifter for playing those songs the singer insists on doing in E flat but you know are E down a half step. It's cheaper than the Digitech Drop and gets me a bunch of other options, too. However... is there a harmoniser that will do that shift? I've looked at one (Digitech?) and it seems to want to go up or down a minor second minimum which won't do it. I don't think the Pitch Fork does, either.

[George]

i have a pitch fork and i don't think it detunes a half step? will check when i'm home but it definitely doesn't harmonise intelligently. tracking is excellent though, as is the case with all ehx pedals.

[Gabriel]

The pitch shifting on the Zoom units is awful, super glitchy and really out of tune. A morpheus drop tune or a Digitech drop are the best options for what you want.

[NickS]

The pitch shifting on the Zoom units is awful, super glitchy and really out of tune. A morpheus drop tune or a Digitech drop are the best options for what you want.

Interesting, my colleague swears by his G5 for pitch shifting. The Morpheus pedal is discontinued. Digitech drop is affordable.

[luciguci]

I have the behringer pitch shifter and it does half step below and doesn't sound too bad for $50

[NickS]

I'm going to revive this thread to point out that the Digitech Ricochet expression-pedal-less whammy is currently £111 on Amazon, gives you pitch shift AND whammy - but the shift is fixed intervals up or down; 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8ve, 2x8ve, 8ve+dry.
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The Digitech Drop is down to £95
The Behringer US600 isn't in stock anywhere I can find.

[Bacchus]

I'm thinking Zoom G3X multi-effect at £124 is a reasonable way of getting a pitch shifter for playing those songs the singer insists on doing in E flat but you know are E down a half step. It's cheaper than the Digitech Drop and gets me a bunch of other options, too. However... is there a harmoniser that will do that shift? I've looked at one (Digitech?) and it seems to want to go up or down a minor second minimum which won't do it. I don't think the Pitch Fork does, either.

Minor second is one fret.

The full Digitech Whammy does this well, but isn't the cheapest pedal around. Useful though, for morellols.

[NickS]

The Drop does 1-7 semitones and octave down, so it's good for that semitone detune. I don't know whether that is what I was talking about.

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[BearBoy]

Just tell your singer to sing better.

[NickS]

More a case of "tell the keyboard player to use the transpose button", tbh, if he has one on his Hammond.

I have a minor issue with one of the local guitarists when we do a Steve Miller Band song who insists "that's played in F" when you can tell from the open string sounds it's played as a G shape.

[Bacchus]

The Drop does 1-7 semitones an octave down, so it's good for that semitone detune. I don't know whether that is what I was talking about.

One to seven semitones the suddenly jumping to an octave is a weird set of options, but it would do what you're asking for.

Ricochet looks rubbish.

[BearBoy]

One to seven semitones the suddenly jumping to an octave is a weird set of options.

I always thought that. Almost like it was designed by someone who mistakenly thought an octave = 8 semitones.

I put a Drop on my Christmas list but Santa failed to deliver. Made up some bullshit about it being out of stock everywhere.

[Bacchus]

Yeah, that's what I thought when I saw it.