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  • October 9, 2010 at 12:39 am #111871
    WatsonWood
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    Ummh..it took a little time but I have now tried out tweaking the trim pots on one of my Electric Mistresses, a vintage DEM, and the sounds are getting towards the Enchanter. Adding a vintage Hot Tubes up front helps a bit, too. So my next step into the land of the Enchanter will be to buy an old Mistress and an old Hot Tubes and see what happens when putting them together.

    October 9, 2010 at 3:47 am #111874
    julian
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    I think what you really want is a comb filter pedal. That would be able to get some nice sitar sounds.

    The reason that flangers (and super short delays and bathtub reverb) can sound sitarish is that they often have resonant frequencies, much like the unplayed sympathetic strings on a sitar that give it it’s characteristic sound.

    A comb filter is in effect many delays in parallel tuned to different resonant frequencies, which would get you much closer to the sitar sound.

    Of course the other thing you need is a buzz bridge and just intonation (fretless guitar would work very well for that)

    Here’s a nice comb filter demo someone did on youtube:

    November 17, 2011 at 11:01 am #116357
    WatsonWood
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    Well, Julian, just about a year exactly since your last post I was able to get one of the first Ravish Sitars to arrive in the UK. And I am Enchanted.

    January 23, 2012 at 7:57 am #116842
    WatsonWood
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    A few weeks after buying the Ravish Sitar I continue to be amazed by its properties and possibilities which, as I have joyfully discovered, include Arp-like synthesizer modulating and wonderful envelope effects, especially on the E and A bass strings. I am far from the end of discovery with this pedal and need to do some serious practice with programming scales….. what an Enchanter this pedal is! How many times can I say thank-you to EHX?

    April 8, 2012 at 9:05 pm #117288
    JolyV
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    It really is a shame how the left is able to take any good idea and run it into the ground.

    April 9, 2012 at 5:13 pm #117293
    Cryabetes
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    yeah those durn librulls don’t want us havin sitar-combfilter pedals.

    September 3, 2012 at 1:42 pm #118091
    WatsonWood
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    After a short tour of 15 gigs my Ravish Sitar has proven to be as roadworthy as the most rugged vintage EHX pedals in my possession. Great to be able to modulate the sounds in realtime in the middle of a solo and then punch back into mem mode in a millisecond just before vocals et al start up again.
    I was hesitant about using the RS on the road and had been holding back but now….no more! The RS is definitely a stompbox worthy of its name…..Next step will be to juggle between two expression pedals.

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