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  • May 10, 2017 at 7:20 pm #84900
    funkonosserus
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    Anyone have experience and advice as to using the Pitch Fork with bass guitar? One of my bands is a power trio and I like the idea of doubling lead guitar lines with octaves up or even parallel 3rds or 4ths, which the spec sheet says the Pitch Fork does. Probably it would mostly be for octaves up or down, to thicken up the groove when the guitarist switches from chords to leads. If it tracks well in plus or minus octave mode it would be worth it; any other harmonies would be frosting on the cake. I used to have a Digitech Bass Harmony Machine, which I wish I’d kept– but it was rackmounted. This pedal will fulfill a long-held fantasy if it can do for bass what it does for guitar in the demo videos.

    Thanks for any honest advice.

    September 18, 2017 at 7:34 pm #123162
    gvelasco
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    I haven’t tried it with bass, but the Pitchfork is digital and polyphonic, so it shouldn’t have any problem tracking a bass.

    I like it when bass plays chords under a lead guitar. I also like octave bass, up or down, but I don’t get straight parallel thirds or fourths. I think diatonic intervals are more useful, but you don’t get those with straight pitch mod machines. You need an effect that knows what key you’re in.

    For a really good octave down ONLY sound, you can use the EHX Octave Multiplexer. It’s not listed as a bass effect, but I’m pretty sure it will work with bass, at least the original that I had many years ago did. The Octave Multiplexer is 100% Analogue and it is monophonic, so it will get confused if you throw intervals or chords at it.

    The Bass Micro Synthesizer has the same circuit as the Octave Multiplexer for the Sub Octave channel. It also gives you an Octavix ( Octavia-like ) octave up, that means it’s distorted, and a square wave which is just a super clipped signal, basically a distortion. The filters on the Bass Micro Synth are tweaked for bass frequencies. This is also a 100% analogue effect which makes it essentially monophonic when you’re using the octave channels.

    Again, if you only need an octave, the POG series is digital and polyphonic and it can give you a pure octave up and/or octave down. Even though it only does octaves, some people prefer the tone and ease of use of the POG to the Pitchfork in side-by-side comparisons. I’ve never seen a POG-Pitchfork shootout using a bass, so it might be that one tracks bass better than the other.

    March 28, 2018 at 5:52 am #123745
    Stormbringer
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    I have both the Micro Pog and the POG 2 and they both track well on bass for the most part. If you go down to the lowest registers or use a 5 or 6 string bass it could be a little less effective but in the higher registers- no problem.

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