![]() ![]() Every note you play will have a perfect harmony added on top! This is more commonly used for vocalists who want a rich, layered sound, but when applied to guitar it can make for some really interesting effects! With harmonisers, you choose the musical key that you’re playing in, you choose your interval, and the pedal does the rest. …this brings us onto harmonisers! ‘Harmony’ is defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “a pleasant musical sound made by different notes being played or sung at the same time”. You can mimic different tunings, reach higher or lower notes than your guitar allows, or create abstract textures that sound less and less like guitar the further you go! And as with octave effects, you often have the option to either blend the effect with your signal, or remove your signal completely, opening up a world of tonal opportunities. The idea behind a pitch shift effect is that it doesn’t just shift by octaves, it can shift by any chosen interval. You can fatten up riffs by adding lower octaves to the mix, add extra sizzle to your leads with higher octaves, or drop your sound down by an octave or two and pretend you’re playing a bass.and much, much more! Most octave effects allow you to either blend the affected note with your original tone OR remove your original tone from the mix entirely. ![]() Some pedals even allow you to layer multiple octaves, creating an organ-like effect. Instead of shifting by just 12 notes (1 octave), they can shift by 24 notes (2 octaves), or even 36 notes (3 octaves), allowing you to create really unique sounds. Some octave effects can also shift by more than 1 octave. This means that if you play a C note through an octave pedal, you’ll still hear a C, but it’ll be either an octave higher or lower than you played it. So the idea of an octave effect is that it takes the note that it detects, and shifts it by exactly 12 notes either up or down. So if you start with a C note and ascend 12 notes (12 frets on a guitar), you end up on a higher C. You may already know that musical notes repeat themselves in a seemingly endless cycle. In musical theory terms, an octave is the distance (also known musically as an ‘interval’) between two of the same note.
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