I have been making industrial music for awhile and realized a lot of the bands I like use hardware like the BOSS SE50 or SE70. I was curious if anyone knew any more recent and cheap hardware that could do the same thing (layering four channels of pitch, +1,-1,+2,-2, etc). I have a vocal 300 by Digitech but it doesn't allow for this feature. Thanks.
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Looking For Pitchshifting Hardware Comparible to BOSS SE50/70
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Thereflectingvoid
offlineMemberPosted 6 months ago # -
two icepopsicklething sticks, 4 differently stretched empty balloons, tape together, a variation on the jew's harp...sing through this into eventide h8000fw, yade will recommend which cheap mic to get.
you don't need se70, only prodigy used that, and look at how they ended...sad old men with trihawks, you don't want that!Posted 6 months ago # -
Plastik Suicide
offlineMemberActually, you don't need hardware for that, just some multitracking!:
First take: Just use your normal voice and go with it.
Second take: Drink shitloads of whiskey and get yourself seriously wasted (don't forget a few packs of Marlboro), next morning record a another take.
Third take: Hit your balls with somenthing heavy (good ol' kick will do too) and record third take.Combine these and you sound totally evil bro.
Posted 6 months ago # -
opium1984
offlineMemberthe Boss PS-6? the manual goes into detail on how to get the detune effect.
i dont personally have one, but i plan to get one when i get my mic setup going; still focusing on gettin a good hardware sampler soon.
Posted 6 months ago # -
HA! I actually bought an SE-50 for this very reason and honestly I can tell you it sounded just ok. I was expecting magic but found the results kinda bland. It worked well for the artists at the time (probably almost a decade ago). Try some free audio applications and use the options there. All of them have pitch, speed, and tempo adjustments.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Eric Christian
offlineMember@ZETA I was expecting magic but found the results kinda bland.
Used alone there isn't really any magic. You'll probably get better results if you use a tube preamp in front of it or combine it with a mild touch of other effects. I use a Presonus TubePre in front of mine. Both the SE-50 and SE-70 are unique for the amount of levels of pitch shifting you are able combine in the patch. There are a few other hardware processors that do similar pitch shifting but they are in the $2000-3000 range. Fractal and Eventide come to mind.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Sony DPS-V55. Make a program using two of the dual pitch blocks. This gives two pitch shifters per channel with independent panning, effect level and direct level. Since the pairs of pitch blocks are in series you can set them both to +1 on one side and -1 on the other. These boxes used to go very cheap used but unfortunately they have been "discovered" and frequently go for as much as $400+ now. But worth setting up a search on Ebay for in the hope you find a good deal.
Also the Kurtzweil Mangler has some pretty good pitch shifting abilities as well as related pitch domain effects that are simply outrageous. As soon as I can afford it I am getting another one of these units.
I owned an SE-50 a long time ago. Too much damn noise and pitchers got too mushy for my tastes. One of the surprising gems in that machine was actually the Leslie speaker effect. Didn't sound like the real thing but did very cool shit to synths and voices.
The overdrive for that Leslie effect sounded better than all the actual overdrive and distortion effects in the box which were mostly useless.Posted 6 months ago # -
use your voice and any state-of-the-art distortion unit...preferably a bitcrusher...if you want to save your voice use a vocoder with a white noise source as carrier..and speak the lyrics..then everything through the distortion...and off you go...
still dunno why everybody is so into this pitchshifting-crap
Posted 6 months ago # -
Another cheap box with the ability to do 4 separate pitch FX is the ART DMV-Pro. I see these on Ebay for less than $100 when they crop up.
http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=91&cat=14&id=14Posted 5 months ago # -
get a digitech studio quad or a tc electronic fireworx. The fireworx is basically the end-all for fx processing imo.
Posted 5 months ago #
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