Pedal Recommendation - Pitch Shift

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I am looking to add a pitch shift to my pedalboard. I bring two to three guitars to gigs, but I thought it might be nice to add this effect if some stages are too small for multiple guitars. I am only looking to go down a half step to a full step. I know most people discuss the Digitech Drop pedal. Are there any others? I see that Electro Harmonix has the Pitch Fork pedal. I have been watching some videos but would love to hear from you all. Thoughts?
 
I only have experience with the Drop and have no complaints. It really is only good for a whole step down before some digital artifacts come into play though.
 
I've used the Pitchfork pedal for years and love it; even works great on bass

Unfortunately the latch switch on it eventually broke and I only ever really use it in momentary mode; need to get that fixed at some point
 
The Boss PS-5 or PS-6 work quite well and sound good.
 
They all suck. Latency, and high end roll off for days. Wish someone would perfect this in a pedal. It's beyond frustrating. Save yourself the money and bring another guitar tuned down.
 
Shredneck said:
They all suck. Latency, and high end roll off for days. Wish someone would perfect this in a pedal. It's beyond frustrating. Save yourself the money and bring another guitar tuned down.
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This was my ultimate conclusion as well. Even when going all digital using NeuralDSP plugins, just wasn't enjoying it.
 
MXR Poly Blue. I had one, it's a great pedal. The Boss Harmonist is as well.
 
I'm using the Pitchfork for harmonies in momentary mode. I dig it for that. I've uses it on Kazoo with great results too, but then again it's virtually impossible to make a kazoo sound bad.
 
The Eventide Pitchfactor does alot of stuff I don't even use and the sound quality is excellent.
 
Look at the Line6 HX One.

It has their Poly Capo which is the best pitch shifting tech I've tried (beats the Drop pedal, Fractal's take and Neural DSP's transpose).
 
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