Eventide Audio - Micropitch pedal

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Kapo_Polenton said:
No, because this isn't 1985-1995 anymore and I also am not EVH.

Outside of that, what is the use? Regular chorus for the win if I want to go vintage. Sounds good though and reasonably priced.
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The fact that it’s not 1985 anymore is exactly the reason to use it instead of a regular chorus pedal.

I’ve always found regular chorus to sound weird and cheesy, specifically due to the swimmy oscillation. Micropitch shifting is basically just chorus that doesn’t oscillate. It has the benefit of widening your tone like putting a 1-5ms delay on one stereo side will do, but unlike that delay trick, Micropitch shifting will successfully collapse to mono without phase cancelling.

Basically it’s chorus without the cheese. It’s great and can work with pretty much any guitar tone from super clean to modern high gain.
 
Mine arrived yesterday. Just got finished jamming on it. Sounds great, just like the Micropitch from the H9.

NOTE: To get fine tuning, choosing actual numbers instead of the dials on the pedal, you have to use the software editor downloaded from Eventide. The big caveat is that the editor is a Midi Editor, so instead of showing dials as 0-100 or 0c to 50c, it's in midi steps of 0-127. Not much a big deal, but it was a little tricky for me because I wanted to free up one of my H9's. So I wanted to copy the exact micropitch preset from the H9 to the Micropitch pedal. So I had to do a little math to get the settings exact or at least very close. But the end result is I have the Micropitch pedal going into 2 H9's that gives me an H9 freed to do anything else.

Loving it, really adds a bit of crisp thickness if that makes sense.
 
stratjacket said:
Mine arrived yesterday. Just got finished jamming on it. Sounds great, just like the Micropitch from the H9.

NOTE: To get fine tuning, choosing actual numbers instead of the dials on the pedal, you have to use the software editor downloaded from Eventide. The big caveat is that the editor is a Midi Editor, so instead of showing dials as 0-100 or 0c to 50c, it's in midi steps of 0-127. Not much a big deal, but it was a little tricky for me because I wanted to free up one of my H9's. So I wanted to copy the exact micropitch preset from the H9 to the Micropitch pedal. So I had to do a little math to get the settings exact or at least very close. But the end result is I have the Micropitch pedal going into 2 H9's that gives me an H9 freed to do anything else.

Loving it, really adds a bit of crisp thickness if that makes sense.
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Thanks for the full review. Will it split a mono input signal to stereo L and R?
 
harddriver said:
Thanks for the full review. Will it split a mono input signal to stereo L and R?
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Sort of but probably not the way I think you're hoping. "In Mono, both outputs have the same dry signal" from the manual.
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stratjacket said:
Mine arrived yesterday. Just got finished jamming on it. Sounds great, just like the Micropitch from the H9.

NOTE: To get fine tuning, choosing actual numbers instead of the dials on the pedal, you have to use the software editor downloaded from Eventide. The big caveat is that the editor is a Midi Editor, so instead of showing dials as 0-100 or 0c to 50c, it's in midi steps of 0-127. Not much a big deal, but it was a little tricky for me because I wanted to free up one of my H9's. So I wanted to copy the exact micropitch preset from the H9 to the Micropitch pedal. So I had to do a little math to get the settings exact or at least very close. But the end result is I have the Micropitch pedal going into 2 H9's that gives me an H9 freed to do anything else.

Loving it, really adds a bit of crisp thickness if that makes sense.
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trying to ‘dial-in’ precise numbers via the app for my H9 is the only thing i do not like about the product. total pain.

i love the Eventide micro-pitch sound and i use it frequently. it does not have to be full-on EVH OU812 style to work, most of my own H9 presets are subtle.
 
stratjacket said:
Sort of but probably not the way I think you're hoping. "In Mono, both outputs have the same dry signal" from the manual.
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correct, it’s not actual stereo but you can split the outputs and have one W and one D. i use this feature to send one of the outputs to my Kemper.
 
dsquared said:
correct, it’s not actual stereo but you can split the outputs and have one W and one D. i use this feature to send one of the outputs to my Kemper.
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Wait, so if I go line out from my guitar amp (one mono cable) into the input of the micropitch and use both outputs with each going to one side of my stereo power amp, will it split it to stereo left and right? Will I be able to do say -5 on the left and +5 on the right?
 
Now that I’m re-reading the manual, it does do stereo out as well but i haven’t tried.
 
bubbastain said:
Wait, so if I go line out from my guitar amp (one mono cable) into the input of the micropitch and use both outputs with each going to one side of my stereo power amp, will it split it to stereo left and right? Will I be able to do say -5 on the left and +5 on the right?
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That's my question as well....
 
bubbastain said:
Wait, so if I go line out from my guitar amp (one mono cable) into the input of the micropitch and use both outputs with each going to one side of my stereo power amp, will it split it to stereo left and right? Will I be able to do say -5 on the left and +5 on the right?
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Yes, It'll most definitely be stereo.
 
seems like this would be amazing in stereo but kind of suck in mono? Which means buying this would start a chain of events leading me to buy more cabs/power amps
 
Well, I’m gonna wait until either GC, Sweetwater or Amazon has them in stock. I want it now though.
 
Shask said:
The trick for this is to run the Chorus in parallel. Keep your drive tones, and just dial in enough Chorus for it to be noticeable without losing your core tone.
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I did that just now. My Savage 60's fx-loop is typically at 100% wet, or serial, since I'm looking to minimize any timing issues when my fx-loop signal goes through a few digital pedals. Luckily for me, all 'dem pedals are true bypass.
I did have to crank the Levels of a few pedals with the loop at ~40% wet, and my TC Ditto (last pedal in the loop) still works, but with the level maxed and it ends up a hint lower in volume than I'd normally use for doing some rhythm recordings and then play lead over it.
So, still, very good advice :giggle: , but there are a few caveats.
 
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