New Gear

[Tom Drinkwater]

I just bought a Tascam 2488 Neo and the new Eventide Pitch Factor Harmonizer. Yooooo-hoooooo!!!! I should be getting the harmonizer tomorrow and the Tascam on the 29th. Then it's on. I may need some new strings though.

[secondfiddle]

I have been heavily Youtubing the Pitch Factor and it is definatly my next purchase.

[Tom Drinkwater]

After hearing Steve Vai's Passion and Warfare album many years ago I told myself that I would one day get a harmonizer. I bought a PS-5 a few years back and it was fun but didn't do it for me. Then the Harmony Man came out last year and that looked really good but I knew Eventide would bring one out so I waited. I should be receiving it today. I am really excited, I don't buy new gear that often.

[arsacane]

Originally Posted by Tom Drinkwater

After hearing Steve Vai's Passion and Warfare album many years ago I told myself that I would one day get a harmonizer. I bought a PS-5 a few years back and it was fun but didn't do it for me. Then the Harmony Man came out last year and that looked really good but I knew Eventide would bring one out so I waited. I should be receiving it today. I am really excited, I don't buy new gear that often.

Ok I'm not sure about the specs of the PitchShift pedal but, Steve Vai's effects in Passion & Warfare and other disks are much more than diatonic shifts: synchronized delays, ping pong delays, reverbs, etc, etc. That's why eventide's rack gear is cool but difficult to use (and expensive).
I'll wait for your full report ;-)

Cheers, Daniel.

[lactose]

Many years ago I was sitting in a recording studio mix down session. The vocalist was off on the last note of the song. I watched the engineer reach over to the harmonizer and dial the note up to pitch. Blew me away. Of course now we have AutoTune.

One added bonus of having a harmonizer: it will keep the kids entertained literally for hours, lowering and raising their voice, adding echo.

[Tom Drinkwater]

I have only played for about 1 hour on the new harmonizer but I can tell you that having four voices plus the actual note is really nice. It has some really sweet arpeggiator things too. It has a bunch of presets which I haven't messed with yet too. Best $499 I ever spent on a single piece of gear. One of my favorite things so far is the Quadrovox setting (four voice harmony) and setting each voices delay time. You can come up with some beautiful and some really nutty sounds. I may have to post a video when I figure out the rest of it.

[secondfiddle]

I gassed out and got the Eventide Pitchfactor, and its a wowfactor! I am using it on the melody side of the Box guitar and it sounds incredible, Thanks Eventide.

Fiddle

[Tom Drinkwater]

The Pitch Factor is alot of fun and really usefull. congrats.

[Paul Edwards]

Got the POD X3 Pro the other day and am blown away by it. Besides sounding like a million bucks on both bass AND guitar simultaneously, it records straight to my laptop through usb 2.0.

wow

[Tom Drinkwater]

Sweet. A buddy of mine told me about that thing, I definitely want one.

[gvella]

I got the x3 live about a month ago and after alot of tweaking of patches I've been very pleased.Its a really nice piece of equipment for the tapper where you can route each side through its own chain.Great for recording too.

[Jim_D]

I recently got this new rig for when I'm playing bass guitar with my band, Small Machine.



Plugging the Megatar into this is awesome - it's another world compared to the whole amp-modelling-pedal-into-computer experience. I must advise all tappers out there if you haven't already to try your instrument through a dangerously loud amplifier at least once; it's thrilling!

[warrplayer]

Originally Posted by Jim_D

I recently got this new rig for when I'm playing bass guitar with my band, Small Machine.

Plugging the Megatar into this is awesome - it's another world compared to the whole amp-modelling-pedal-into-computer experience. I must advise all tappers out there if you haven't already to try your instrument through a dangerously loud amplifier at least once; it's thrilling!

What brand is the headless?

[Jim_D]

Hello, it's a Westone, from the mid-80's.

There's a good article here - http://guitarz.blogspot.com/2009/12/...less-bass.html