Electro-HarmonixPitch Fork Polyphonic Pitch Shift Pedal

Definitely a great tool for adding a bit of flair to your guitar tone. Is also great for practicing and testing Down-tuned sounds without having to actually re-tune your gear. Also really fun to play with and hear some of the crazy sounds you can get with it.

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.

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 kinda panned their Cockfight pedal (for my setup and style) but I love this thing!Mine came in a shrink wrapped box with the AC adapter. The footswitch was totally loose and almost fell into the unit. I had to carefully tighten it without spinning it and ripping out the wiring. Totally unacceptable to recieve a partially unassembled product!I bought a Moog EP3 expression pedal which does two things: 1) obviously it opens up lots of dynamic shifting and sliding the effect on/off and partial/full. 2) It allows me to have the Pitchfork on the table/couch so I can adjust the settings without stopping down. Plus you can rock the pedal on/off really quick to hear with and without the effect.Press the latch button to enable expression pedal. Rock all the way back to give unaffected guitar tone.With guitar > Pitchfork > amp with a little distortion [Pitchfork blend 10 o'clock / shift set to "1" / dual switch set to down] I finally got an awesome "Sunshine of your Love" tone.Totally clean and blend near 12 o'clock you can get organ tones just like "In-a-gadda-da-vida" in seconds!I noticed that with zero distortion anywhere some of the settings gave an awesome full sound that just seemed huge and warm: like how if you listen to some songs carefully you realize the"heavy" guitars really aren't that distorted at all. They're just BIG because of the mix and bass and harmonics,etc.This thing is really, really fun! When I get tired of banging out Danzig and Slayer tunes from the 80s I can get weird...Steve Vai sorta weird.1960s Hendrix/Clapton tones ; Beautiful organ ; Rage against the machine squeals ; sound like a guitar and bass (but for real, not just a simple lower note boringly added) ; do your own new thing!To each their own.