Harmonizer pedal suggestions?

I can't think of any pedals that will let you turn off the high/low harmonies individually. The best you would be able to do there is to get a pedal with presets and switch between different presets.

My two best suggestions for you are the Earthquaker Devices Pitch Bay and an Eventide Pitchfactor or H9 (Pitchflex algorithm). The first is cheaper and a nice, simple intuitive small pedal. However, it has a very warbly/chorus-y sound to it, IMO based on demo videos. Also, no presets. The Eventide stuff is more expensive but has all the control you would ever need, along with the ability to use presets to switch between different options.

 

Both of my suggestions have complete control over the wet/dry blend (but not a dedicated switch for that).

 

I've read and seen some reviews saying that the Pitchfactor does not track as well as, say ElectroHarmonix stuf.
What is your experience with that?

 

I've never owned EHX stuff. I think the Pitchfactor tracks just fine. If you do a lot of polyphonic stuff, then there are spots where it begins to slip. But otherwise, it's really great and gets a bad rap.

Check this out:
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/pitchshifting-a-blind-shootout-for-your-perusal.1107262/

 

my kevlar umbrella is open as protection from the certain doo-doo storm, but...
behringer multiFX. 6 effects including harmonizer, which attenuates an octave up and down by halfsteps, and has mix and fine-tune knobs in harmonizer mode. tracks low B just fine. $39.

 

Anything else out there?

 

BWhammy and or a POG2?

 

I like my Boss PS-6. It is key dependent in two modes but not in all the others. There's major and minor harmony mode(key dependent), polyphonic pitch shifting, detune, and s-bend, which is monophonic but also awesome and worth the price you pay for PS-6 just for that feature alone IMO. Anyway in poly mode you can do 3rd up, 5th up, 7th up, +1 octave, +2 octave, +1 ocatave and -5 on the up side of the dial and the same thing down except the last setting is +7th and - 5th. S-bend allows you to use an expression pedal to do Whammy style bends or use the momentary switch mode(it goes to this if you don't have an expression pedal hooked up)and set the rise and fall of of the pitch bend. In s-bend you can go from +1 to +4 octaves and then a weird vibrato thing and dual rising and falling simultaneously mode and on the down side you get -1 to -3 octaves, down shifted weird vibrato thing, and +2 chromatic. It's a super fun pedal just for s-bend mode and I also use the poly shift and detune quite a bit. I don't really understand theory well enough to use the major and minor harmony modes but I do mess around with them from time to time. It's really fun to send crazy bends into oscillating fuzzes or pitch up an octave in the poly mode and do reverb swells and sound like messed up orchestra.

 

Cool I like boss stuff. Going with this thanks.

 

For that kind of sound i use the new bass Whammy, even now if i have a Pitchfork.

 

Hmmm the whammy bass pedal or the boss???

 

I'm glad it works for you, but it didn't for me. It is a fun pedal indeed with a lot of possibilities, but it had too much latency for me. Fine for long notes, but it threw of any groove with more staccato playing. You also have to like the 'steel drum' type of sound.
It might work for the OP, but definitely try before you buy!

 

The way you are explaining I probably won't like it. What are you using?

 

I have had a Harmonist in 2011. So it was just a kind of toy for me. Not really useful and plastic sounded.

 

A friend gave it to me, so I simply had a good time trying it out before I gave it away to another friend (guitarist). He sold it very soon after…
I never had a real need for it, so I didn't try to replace it. I only sometimes use an octave up from my EHX Microsynth (analog, so a dirty up) or octave down from my Octamizer, but no real harmonies. Both of these are analog and don't give me any latency issues at all, but I'm sure they're not what you are looking for.

 

If I were looking for two independent shifts, I would go for something like boss LS-2 with two shifters (which need not be the same type, of course), one in each loop. Total control over which is/are on or off and each totally independent of the other.

 

PS-6 might not be for everyone I guess. I don't notice any latency and I don't think it sounds like a plastic toy either. I find it very useful.

S-bend mode:





Used in poly and s-bend with an OC-2