the eventide pitchfactor

Teetonetal

Um. It's a bit shit. I mean it does lots of cool things.. just very badly. The tracking is pants. Which is nice if you want screwed up glitch city but not so good if you actually want good tracking.

Must be doing something wrong.

Noticed that firmware is v3 and 5.02 is the latest so that should help. Anyone else used one of these dogs?

joeyowen

Totally the opposite of my thoughts, I though it was amazing. Tracked great!

How hot is the signal going in? Putting it after a volume pedal can make life difficult sometimes

Heartfeltdawn

It's been many years since I had one but I wasn't impressed. It hasn't got the fun bits of gear like the H3000. The Timefactor, Space, and Modfactor were really good but the Pitchfactor just missed the mark. 

Teetonetal

@joeyowen

I'm going direct from the guitar into the pitchfactor then direct into the amp.

It really, really lags. lots of warble and gliss as it tries to find the notes. The only algorithm that seems to work is the Octaver.

Been looking at the eventide forum and it seems that the pedal can be set at different tunings and for different instruments, so I will check that mine has not been set to something odd (it's a 2nd hand item).

Do you drive yours with a compressor?

joeyowen

Nopes don't think I did, it was years ago I had one!

Maybe the tuning is out, worth a try.  It just don't ever remember having an issue

I uesd it for Octs, harmonies and harmony delays

All was fine, but it was many years ago, maybe I'm just blanking out the errors ha

GavRichList

If I were you I'd reset factory settings, then install the latest firmware and go from there. Hard to believe it's pap given how exceptional the Space is.

Teetonetal

GavRichList said:

If I were you I'd reset factory settings, then install the latest firmware and go from there. Hard to believe it's pap given how exceptional the Space is.

Yup, that's the plan - new firmware is only a few months old, so hopefully things have improved.

joeyowen

Eventide don't release shit really, all of it is goooood quality!

kjdowd

Don't like any of the eventide stuff. Just don't think it sounds right to me. I totally appreciate this is a personal thing, and I don't have a problem with digital stuff generally, but had an h9 and couldn't get on with it at all.

longi

Stick it in the effects loop if your amp has one, it should make a vast improvement. Pitch effects don't like going into the front of an amp for some reason.

GavRichList

longi said:

Stick it in the effects loop if your amp has one, it should make a vast improvement. Pitch effects don't like going into the front of an amp for some reason.

disagree strongly

meltedbuzzbox

GavRichList said:

longi said:

Stick it in the effects loop if your amp has one, it should make a vast improvement. Pitch effects don't like going into the front of an amp for some reason.

disagree strongly

and what do you know about pitch effects? :-P

GavRichList

meltedbuzzbox;870252" said:

GavRichList said:



longi said:

Stick it in the effects loop if your amp has one, it should make a vast improvement. Pitch effects don't like going into the front of an amp for some reason.







disagree strongly





and what do you know about pitch effects? :-P

Well exactly; I barely ever use them

meltedbuzzbox

next you will be offering opinions about delays

GavRichList

Get out of town. I don't even have a pedalboard.

meltedbuzzbox

GavRichList said:

Get out of town. I don't even have a pedalboard.

to be fair that is almost accurate 

its a small Eastern European city (it probably has more power too)

GavRichList

Wisdom

longi

GavRichList;870143" said:

longi said:

Stick it in the effects loop if your amp has one, it should make a vast improvement. Pitch effects don't like going into the front of an amp for some reason.







disagree strongly

Every harmonizer I've tried in the front of an amp sounded like a ring modulator! They also can be a bit funny in an effects loop depending on the pedal order.

Teetonetal

Well I updated the version last night to 5.2 and the difference is huge now it tracks properly and has pre / post routing which is awesome, so it can go in front of the amp and in the loop

Actually it's going to go in-front of the amp and in the loop of the mf-104

Need to hook it up with an expression pedal and see if the whammy is as good as a whammy, which will mean i can move my whammy to the gigging board

Must admit I've always put pitch effects before the amp, pitchfork, whammy, ps-3, oc-3 etc never had any issues.

meltedbuzzbox

Good to see its straightened out now.
I wouldn't stick it in the loop of the Moog though, it seems like a waste of a monstrous pedal

Teetonetal

@meltedbuzzox Ah but that's the beauty. With the last firmware update the all eventides have pre/post routing on a per patch basis.

So you use 4 cables. 2 in the regular chain and 2 in the fx loop of an amp or fx pedal loop (eg mf104 or super ego)

Then when you change patch the pedal moves into the correct position, whilst maintaining the dry through of the other position.

It's genius.

Song 1 could use it as a whammy before the amp, Song 2 as a reverse octave doubler in the feedback loop of the moog

All the eventide range now do this @Gavhaus were you aware? means your Space can be in two places in your chain....