MicroPitch Delay
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GUITARIST JULY 2021
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A
s you’d expect from a company
that’s been around as long as
Eventide, there are some classic
effects in its roster. And recently the brand
decided to put some of them into a series of
dedicated pedals. Last year, we took a look
at the Blackhole reverb pedal and now it’s
the turn of an effect that’s been at the core
of what the company has done for decades.
First seen in the rackmount H910 and
H949 effects processors, and subsequently
in the H3000 Harmonizer, the MicroPitch
effect is used as a stereo widening tool
to make sounds bigger, accomplished by
applying a small amount of pitch shifting (a
few cents) to the source signal and panning
the upshifted and downshifted signals
left and right. That pitch shifting is now
available in this dedicated pedal, alongside
stereo delay that can be combined with it.
IN USE
The MicroPitch Delay pedal takes a mono
or stereo input, but it has two outputs:
Pitch A and Delay A go to output 1; Pitch B
and Delay B go to output 2, but you can run
it all out of output 1 in mono. Your sound
is set up by six knobs, all of which have
secondary functions accessed by pressing
a small toggle button. Pitch A offers up to
50 cents of upward pitch shifting, while
Pitch B offers the same range downwards.
The combination of these two detuned
signals gives you your effect, which can be
100 per cent wet or subtly mixed in with
the dry sound.
The actual effect is a lot like chorus
but without the sense of motion that
goes along with it. Should you want a
more traditional chorus-like effect then
modulation can be added via the Depth
and Rate knobs. The modulation can be
fixed, but you can also control it with
playing dynamics via an envelope follower
that can be set so that increased volume
either increases or decreases the pitch
amounts. Both of the delay lines offer up
to three seconds of delay time, actually
going up to six seconds in a bpm-based
Tap Tempo mode.
With both the pitch shifting and delay
brought into play, the pedal can cover
plenty of ground with subtle changes to
both primary and secondary parameters,
so storing your edited sounds is a
necessity. The pedal stores five presets
onboard, but there’s a grand total of 127
available via MIDI or directly loaded
from the Eventide Device Manager
(EDM) software, a Mac or PC application
that’s used for editing and saving presets.
Eventide ports another classic effect into its own dedicated pedal
WordsTrevor Curwen Photography Olly Curtis
PEDALBOARD
MicroPitch Delay
CONTACT
SOURCE DISTRIBUTION 020 8962 5080
WWW.EVENTIDEAUDIO.COM
MODEL
MICROPITCH DELAY
PRICE
£279
MANUFACTURER
EVENTIDE
EV ENTIDE
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