I got to play a bit more ambient guitar this weekend, and have some more fun with my Live effects box/looper setup. One effect I get a lot of mileage out of in this setup is the Grain Delay. I use several of them for a few different purposes, one of which is pitch shifting for generating low bass notes and high harmonized melodies.
This is no super clean Eventide-style pitch shifting. It creates a noticeable pulsation in the signal and has an overall quirky sound to it that I like.
My basic setup for pitch shifting looks like this:
The key settings are:
Pitch is set to the number of semitones you want to transpose the signal. The above setting is for a perfect fifth up.
Delay Time is set to 1ms to pitch shift the signal without noticeably delaying it.
Frequency can be tweaked to adjust the rate of the pulsing
Feedback can be turned up to add additional shifts. In this case, turning it up will generate additional perfect fifths above the shifted signal.
Once you've got a sound that you like, try putting a standard delay (like the Filter Delay) after the shifted signal to really space it up a notch...and make sure to try it out on drums and other instruments you might not think of as candidates for pitch shifting.
GRAIN DELAY AS PITCH SHIFTER
I got to play a bit more ambient guitar this weekend, and have some more fun with my Live effects box/looper setup. One effect I get a lot of mileage out of in this setup is the Grain Delay. I use several of them for a few different purposes, one of which is pitch shifting for generating low bass notes and high harmonized melodies.
This is no super clean Eventide-style pitch shifting. It creates a noticeable pulsation in the signal and has an overall quirky sound to it that I like.
My basic setup for pitch shifting looks like this:
The key settings are:
Once you've got a sound that you like, try putting a standard delay (like the Filter Delay) after the shifted signal to really space it up a notch...and make sure to try it out on drums and other instruments you might not think of as candidates for pitch shifting.
mmmmmm, weird.
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