Re: Help - looking for a unique kind of effect

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 8:09 AM +0000 11/27/07, andy butler wrote:
>David Kirkdorffer wrote:
>>Hi - perhaps you guys can help me?? I'm looking for a delay footpedal 
>that
>>can also bend pitch at the same time.  That is, as the slaps happen, 
>their
>>picti is being altered up and down a little... as would happen with a
>>chorus.  I need at least 500ms of delay.
>
>Lexicon Vortex.
>..or does it have to be a stomp box?

If we're looking at something as, erm, "interesting" as the Vortex, 
take a look around for an old ADA Pitchtraq pitch shifter.  Yeah, it 
only does the shift, but the interesting thing is that it has an 
insert jack in the back that'll let you patch in any other unit 
between each feedback loop.

So, the effect you're looking for is essentially a delay unit 
inserted into the loop: shift --> delay --> shift again --> delay --> 
shift again, etc., etc.  The Pitchtraq enables you to use anything 
with a quarter inch jack inserted into the feedback loop.  This can 
be a delay, another pitch shifter (you can get some cool 
stair-stepping by setting the Pitchtraq and delay to shift up one 
interval, for instance, while setting the other shifter to step back 
down by a different interval, and vice-versa), reverb, 
multi-effects... heck, you name it.

FWIW, I've a couple of Pitchtraqs (I've keep two configured for dual 
mono) that I've married to an old Digitech DSP-128, and gotten some 
of the thickest choruses ever by crossfeeding the reverb/delay 
programs with only a few cents of shift.

Again, not a footpedal, but definitely fun....

        --m.

(p.s. looks like the Boss PS-3 will indeed only do semi-tone shifts 
with the delay, so that one is probably out.  sorry.)
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