Pitch Shifter Schooling!

[kanderson]

Help! I recently bought a TC Electronic G-major and want to use the pitch shifter for some harmonizer type leads for some old 80's tunes with my band. I see that I have two voices to control and they both range from -2400 to 2400. I've played around with it and set one at -300 and the other at 600 for a decent sound, but I'm a bit confused and need some schooling! Any constructive help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[kanderson]

nobody? really? comon...somebody has to have some insight on setting up a good harmonizer sound.

[Flenz]

As far as I can tell, -300 cent is a minor 3rd down, and 600 cent is a tritone up, 100 cent = a semitone. It's in the user manual on page 41 http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/g_major_us_rev71.pdf
I don't think, you're really going to nail the 80's sound without an intelligent pitch shifter though.

Flenz

[Blix]

nobody? really? comon...somebody has to have some insight on setting up a good harmonizer sound.

Hard to reply when you don't really tell us what you're after.

But if your setup is stereo, try +9 on one side , -9 on the other for a classic 80's sound.

[kanderson]

As far as I can tell, -300 cent is a minor 3rd down, and 600 cent is a tritone up, 100 cent = a semitone. It's in the user manual on page 41 http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/g_major_us_rev71.pdf
I don't think, you're really going to nail the 80's sound without an intelligent pitch shifter though.

Flenz


Thanks Flenz... I was wondering if I should have held out for a G-Major 2 with the intelligent pitch shifter. I have the manual, but I just wish the manual gave some more examples and explained it a little better.

[kanderson]

Hard to reply when you don't really tell us what you're after.

But if your setup is stereo, try +9 on one side , -9 on the other for a classic 80's sound.

Thanks Blix...I'll give that a try. A good example of what I'm after is the beginning of Def Leppard's "Bringing on the Heartbreak"...although I believe that is two guitars.