Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork Polyphonic Pitch Shift Pedal

This is a really unique pedal and definitely can add a lot to your sound if you are willing to mess with it long enough. Controls are pretty basic, the blend dial adjusts the volume of the effect (noon is a 50/50 blend effect, fully dialed in the effect takes over) and the right knob controls the pitch effect. The dual switch picks whether you want to shift up or down, while the dual mode applies both equally. Tracking is very accurate even on fast playing, and the harmony selections are usually spot on.It's fun to mess around with the octave settings to get 12 string and even 18 string guitar sounds, but switching the octave settings to 2 or 3 octaves above and below rarely creates a very usable sound. However, there is a lot of fun to be had shifting the pitch down an octave and putting the blend to max. This effect makes your guitar sound like a very convincing bass guitar which is cool for certain scenarios. Running a Big Muff Pi in front of the Pitch Fork in dual octave mode creates a huge wall of sound synth effect.Overall, this may not be the most usable pedal for day to day playing, but it can add a great amount of creative options to studio playing and provide a good bit of fun in a jam scenario.

I record music for a living yet this is my first stomp box pitch shifter. I wanted to get a simple octave pedal so as to record fake bass parts using my guitar and my new looper pedal "just for fun" when not in the studio. This device does way more than simple octave work. You can pick all major scale intervals (including unison) and then either blend that in with the original signal or have it be the dominating sound. You can also pick either an octave above, octave below, or have both at the same time (including the original signal of course). Finally, you can either pitch up/down by 1-3 octaves. The unison function when blended in with the original provides a lush chorus effect. I also like the latch function, where you can have the effect come in and out by just pressing on the switch. When you release your pressure the effect turns off. What is cool about this pedal that i didn't realize when I ordered it is that I can pitch shift my entire instrument to other keys and for example fake a baritone guitar. Just set the mix to 100% wet, have it set for one octave down and set the interval to a 4th and there ya go. Using latch you can be playing some insane low chunky part and then lift your foot up and seamlessly go into your guitar's original tuning. It sounds fairly realistic and seems to track great. You can also fake a 12 string guitar by blending in an octave up setting lightly. I imagine I'll use this thing for real sessions now that I have it. I can get that cool low tele baritone sound very easily now so that will be great "on tape". There is a little latency for sure but I imagine with anything like this that requires some serious DSP to work will have that. It's not unplayable by any means. It could be that just a simple octave pedal takes less processing and thus has less latency.

Wow, this pedal is fun. It tracks really well with no noticeable lag. The octave down works nicely to give you a bass sound if you are playing guitar, and isn't too synth sounding. Shifting up can sound a bit synthetic, especially if you go 2 or 3 octaves up, but I like the sound. It is good for prog rock / Yes type stuff. The non octave intervals (4th, 5th, 6th) etc. are fun and interesting to play with, especially for single note runs. The blend control is super useful, allowing you to dial in just a bit of the effect (9 to 10 oclock is the sweet spot IMO), or to dial out the original signal completely if you want to just use this to adjust your tuning.This is much nicer sounding that the SubNUp which I also tried out. The POG2 and HOG2 are very popular in this category, but they were much more expensive and don't offer as many intervals, so I'm super happy with my choice.

I bought this pedal to put through my Infinity pedal for transitions between songs of different keys. It works amazingly! I use an expression pedal to slowly fade the to songs together. I might buy another one for my board since this one runs through the send/return of said Infinity pedal. The only downside is that it doesn’t have all twelve halve steps between octaves, but what can you do….