vkinetic
Inspired
Just loving my new AX8 and gradually getting my head around lots of stuff - it's capable of so much. But a really big disappointment for me is the Pitch block. It might do de-tuning etc fine, I don't know because I haven't explored it that much. But all I'm trying to do, in writing a patch for Lenny Kravitz's 'Are You Gonna Go My Way', is to get an octave up. Our second guitarist isn't always able to play with us, so when he is away and we do this song I have been using an EHX PitchFork for an octave up in the appropriate (mainly mono) parts of the song. But getting a half decent octave up on the AX8 is just not happening. It sounds totally artificial and just plain crappy. It sounds like early versions of pitch shifters when they first came out. I would have thought that the computing power of the AX8 would be sufficient to get a decent octave up, even if it is only mono.
I have tried a couple of things, like delaying the octave a little but it seems no matter what I do I just can't get a reasonable octave up that doesn't have very serious artefacts, unless I turn down the octave so much that I might as well not have an octave on at all. So unless someone can point me in the direction of pulling a better octave up it looks like the only pedal I will need to retain from my previous rig will be The PitchFork.
Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong, or tell me to stop wasting my time and just use the PitchFork in the FX loop? Here is my preset so far - it is a work in progress, and the octave section is in Scene 2:
I have tried a couple of things, like delaying the octave a little but it seems no matter what I do I just can't get a reasonable octave up that doesn't have very serious artefacts, unless I turn down the octave so much that I might as well not have an octave on at all. So unless someone can point me in the direction of pulling a better octave up it looks like the only pedal I will need to retain from my previous rig will be The PitchFork.
Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong, or tell me to stop wasting my time and just use the PitchFork in the FX loop? Here is my preset so far - it is a work in progress, and the octave section is in Scene 2: