If you are the kind of guitar players that always add the last innovations to their gear you should read carefully about this product, the new Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal is a harmony generator pedal that analyzes your playing, chords and style, and creates a 3-part harmony signal that complements the chords you played before the solo section. The pedal has 2 footswitches, one of them (memory select) allows you to memorize up to 4 different harmony voices to be played during the solo section, and the other is the one that activates the harmony generation.
The specifications of the Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal are independently selectable voices for each harmony (from 2 shift modes, unison/detune, octave +/-, +/- 12 semitones and 2 octaves down), strum key (that sets the key from your chords), pre-harmony loop that allows you to apply your favorite stompboxes before the harmony is generated, 2 voice and mix (that blends between the lead and harmony signals) controls, 1/4″ guitar input (with distortion send and return), 1/4″ guitar sidechain input (to use your guitar bandmate to be the harmony generator source), balanced stereo 1/4″ outputs and built-in tuner
The Digitech Harmonyman Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Pedal will be available this month and its MSRP is $450.
My concerns with this pedal are mainly to do with true bypass and whether or not the harmony processing will be accurate if used like traditional pedal hook ups (the guitar is plugged in directly and the output goes straight to amp or splitter box then to amps) Will it suck the guitar’s natural tone and alter the pickup’s balance? Also if this pedal produces any noise….
Wish Digitech would already have the pedal out to its delears, since it was advertised that Harmonyman would be available in May. Now most stores are saying they wont be in till June 16th.