• PITCHFACTOR, Absolutely Cool

  
  As reviewed by Keith Fries on 7/29/2009

  This is the first truly usable harmonizer for the Pedal Board!! I have been using my Pitchfactor for about a week now and I'm absolutely in love with it. Unlike others I have purchased only to sell this thing can work in a signal chain. My live chain (as of today in sequence) Keely comp. OCD, Clyde Wah, Pitchfactor, Mini Deja Vibe 2, Holy Grail, TRex Replicator. (No, not all on at the same time!) It's a bit daunting to deal with all the knobs and their changing values with option selected but for live work I have a few basic sounds I kick in and I developed a quick ref to remind me where I set the dials. With the potential of this unit so great, the experimentation is well worth the effort. Gee kids, It will enable you with expanded creative options and amaze your family and friends!!! I really don't want to see many of you out there with this pedal. I like being the only kid on my block!

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• The Eventide brainwave has struck again!

  
  As reviewed by Michael Emmanuel Gabriel on 9/20/2009

  The future HAS arrived. Finally, a pedal-board Harmonizer! Unbelievably, Eventide has done it again! Packed with essential effects, useful features, MIDI, a logical knob-based interface and effortless USB upgradeability, to say the new PitchFactor ROCKS is an understatement! This stompbox literally encompasses the history of the Harmonizer, enabling an encyclopedia of pitch-shifting effects utilizing ten flexible algorithims. A stereo/mono device, input and output levels are switchable (line/inst, line/amp), with an additional programmable sensitivity adjustment for guitar, bass or synths. Virtually every parameter is programmable and accessible through MIDI, and you can connect any normal expression pedal (passive or control-voltage) for even more programmable real-time control (I use a Roland EV-5 with excellent results). For instant gratification, there are 100 built-in presets, including at least two inspired by Steve Vai. However, the interface is so intuitive I found myself writing my own settings immediately, and I've only used it twice! There's a relay-operated bypass system which gives you true-bypass, or two variations of buffered bypass. It's an Eventide, need I say more? I MUST! I can tell you unequivocably I have owned pitch-shifting devices by seven other manufacturers, and as much as I do like them, the PitchFactor SMOKES THEM ALL. The audio quality and purity were, frankly, exactly to my expectations; after all, this is an EVENTIDE HARMONIZER.

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• Excellent but with a couple exceptions

  
  As reviewed by GREG WILSON on 9/12/2011

  This is the best harmonizer, octive, chorus pedal I have heard. The sound is on par with most rackmount units until you hit the real high dollar level. This pedal is totally quiet - there is no noise from this pedal. Even in bypass it is completely quiet that places it above everyhing else right there. The sounds you can get are real nice and with exceptional clarity. You have a ton of control over the many adjustable parameters and if you control it via midi there is even more control. I use his pedal with bass because I wanted a good octive effect and a harmonizer but there is a lot you can do wih this on bass. The tracking is superb. This pedal is worth the price. If you happen to be ready to buy on a weekend that GC has a coupon you can save some cash. I got it for $399 so I was very happy. There are a couple of things that I think could be better. Therenhave been a lot of comments about the display and it is a little difficult to read at first but you will get used to it and it is not so bad. My biggest issue is the damn power supply. For a pedal at this price you should not have to deal with a wall wart - and it is a big one. It should just have a cord - the power transformer should be in the box. I suspect that they did not want to make the pedal any bigger so the power supply is not internal and maybe they could not make it noiseless if they put the power supply in the pedal. But the wall wart is a pain and those little wires from the transformer are notorious for shorting out with heavy use. Since I have no need of a pedal board I have to sting that little wire across the floor night after night - it will eat it before long. Updating the software is seamless and the editing software is not bad but could be a bit more robust I do recommend this pedal if you can afford it. It is worth waiting until you can afford it - it is that good.

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