Yup. Real-time pitch shifting is full of tradeoffs. I you want low latency you get tremolo artifacts. If you don't want the tremolo artifacts you get high latency and weird artifacts on complex intervals.
What I wouldn't give to pick this dudes brain for 20 minutes. Learned more from this man on how amplifiers work than anybody else. Before the AFX3, I came from simple amps in my teens...Gorilla 1×12 combo lent to me by that "cool older guy friend", (cool little thing, ended up blowing it up because I "Marty Mcflied" it with my nerd buddy at the time
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) I also remember a Park combo 1x12 the same friend lent me, and the first amp I OWNED and bought for myself was a Fender stage 112 SE 2x12, to go along with my first "Oh yes it will be mine" Wayne's world guitar, a 76 Gibson explorer reissue Black with white pick guard. Looking back now, I had absolutely no Fn clue what I was doing
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That combo today seems cringe for a Thrash/blues/ metal guy like myself. But it was soo fun
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Believe it or not, the Fender got a decent crunch tone all it's own with no pedals...Then I tried a "D.O.D death metal" pedal ran into the clean channel...I was wowed back then. Gain to ten, no mids, bass to 6, treble to 6 (stuck to that rule for years until I grew up and met all you clever folks lol) Then it was a Line 6 spider 3 120w, for the "insane" setting(don't kill me
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) Then a spider 4, a spider V....Then I upgraded a couple of years ago. What a difference... Learned how and why boost pedals work, the difference between pre/power amp distortion and which type suits what I'm playing for that day, bias, eq/ and Q, and how not diming gain and scooping mids makes a way better tone. What a terrible and yet awesome time to be Alive. My playing has progressed more from the age of 42-44, than it did from the age of 14 to 42. All of this top shelf gear/knowledge makes you want to play every day. Damn I digress, didn't mean to go into my musical / gear history but hell yeah guys, hell yeah Cliff. Thank you.