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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.

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.

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.

Gabriel wrote: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.

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

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.

NickS wrote: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.

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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Just tell your singer to sing better.

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.

NickS wrote: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.

Bacchus wrote: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.

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