boss harmonizers - yuck!!!!!!

[swiggy]

sorry to say but i just don't think they cut it.

i have never been a huge fan of harmonizers anyway but this just sucked.

[ellsobrien]

I would have to concure on this one. The stompbox harmonizer just did not cut it for me either.
I know you can not expect Eventide quailty from a pedal, but the Boss GT-3 harmonizer (older?) sounds completly different (less digital).

But to compare apples to apples, if you compare the sound of a full octave lower on the harmonizer compared to the octave lower on the Octaver it is 10 thousand percent better and of course if your just doing a quick shred or two and need a perfect 5th or 3rd it is not soo bad.

-Andrew

[megawzrd]

What would be a good harmonizer on the market in comparison to the boss version.

[tomizm]

I was thumbing thru the sheet music for Satch's Extremist and found a note that mentioned using a Digitech HM-4 Harmonizer.
I found a used one for $75. *
It's a rack unit, and I was pretty impressed with it's tracking ability. *Harmonized notes needed to be fed thru a mixer to blend better, but was totally useable right out of the box. *Kind of old technology, the unit hummed audibly, but not thru the signal cables, just the unit itself. *Had optional outputs for dry signal, harmonized signals 1 and 2. *MIDI control.
Check one out sometime. *It's well worth $150 IMHO.

[Josh Blagg]

Make sure you count out all octave units that are produced by clipping (ie, fuzz octaves). *This effect occurs with distortion by nature of clipping the signal, and with a great mathematical mindf*ck, can produce octave sounds. *Not the same as a harmonizer. *Just wanted to make sure no one was comparing these things, like the Octavia and the other 72 million clones on the market.

[jem7vwh]

I'd love to try one of these out, but I have next to zero cash. *I have a DOD FX-9 processor which I bought solely for the distortion module. *It's strange, I hate DOD stomp boxes, but I love the distortion on this processor. *It's the closest thing I can find to shelling out for a 5150. *In addition to the killer distortion, it has some really weak pitch-shifting but I'm not sure if that's the same thing as a harmonizer. *is it?