Virtual capo, improvement.

[boardwlk17]

I think the biggest issue is the EQ and the little wobble, it gets
If you have the block set to no pitch change and turn the block on and off it, drastically changes the tone of your sound. Shouldn't it sound the same? Seems to lose all the low mids and the highs. When you turn the block on with no pitch change.

 

[Budda]

I think the biggest issue is the EQ and the little wobble, it gets
If you have the block set to no pitch change and turn the block on and off it, drastically changes the tone of your sound. Shouldn't it sound the same? Seems to lose all the low mids and the highs. When you turn the block on with no pitch change.

Do you have the high and/or low cut engaged?

 

[unix-guy]

High Cut defaults to 10k if I remember correctly.

 

[iamdave]

Yea, I ran into that also. When you want it off, it's best to just disable it altogether. It does give an odd sound. That said, I do like the VC in general. It comes in handy. Within a band sound nothing it really heard.

 

[bertwarbutton]

The last gig I played about a week ago, I used the virtual capo for the first time live... I checked the recording after the gig and it sounded fine... the concerns I had listening in my home studio monitors seem to get "lost" in the band setting...

 

[bdrepko]

I think the biggest issue is the EQ and the little wobble, it gets
If you have the block set to no pitch change and turn the block on and off it, drastically changes the tone of your sound. Shouldn't it sound the same? Seems to lose all the low mids and the highs. When you turn the block on with no pitch change.

I have this problem with all pitch shifters. You would think after 20 years there would at least be a little improvement in pitch shifting, but to this day "The Drop" pedal is still the best thing out there. At least from what I have heard anyway.

 

[Randall Smith]

I have this problem with all pitch shifters. You would think after 20 years there would at least be a little improvement in pitch shifting, but to this day "The Drop" pedal is still the best thing out there. At least from what I have heard anyway.

I think that pitch shifting is the most computationally difficult thing an audio processor can do.

I mix tv and film sound for a living, and in so doing have had to do pitch shift corrections on films coming from/ going to the EU (4%+.1%). Those processes are offline, take a long time to complete and are rarely error free. It doesn’t surprise me at all that a live processor, which is also handling other audio tasks isn’t perfect.

 

[DLC86]

I mix tv and film sound for a living, and in so doing have had to do pitch shift corrections on films coming from/ going to the EU (4%+.1%). Those processes are offline, take a long time to complete and are rarely error free. It doesn’t surprise me at all that a live processor, which is also handling other audio tasks isn’t perfect.

TV shows get pitch corrected?? I thought this wasn't done, I always hear a difference in pitch on theme songs (and sometimes even on actors' voices) when watching a show on the TV vs Amazon Prime or Netflix (where I assume they're played back at the original 23.976 fps instead of 25 fps).
E.g. on The Big Bang Theory it's pretty evident.
Maybe not all shows are pitch corrected?

 

[bdrepko]

I think that pitch shifting is the most computationally difficult thing an audio processor can do.

I mix tv and film sound for a living, and in so doing have had to do pitch shift corrections on films coming from/ going to the EU (4%+.1%). Those processes are offline, take a long time to complete and are rarely error free. It doesn’t surprise me at all that a live processor, which is also handling other audio tasks isn’t perfect.

I'm sure it is. It would be nice if someone could make a breakthrough in this technology though.

 

[Randall Smith]

TV shows get pitch corrected?? I thought this wasn't done, I always hear a difference in pitch on theme songs (and sometimes even on actors' voices) when watching a show on the TV vs Amazon Prime or Netflix (where I assume they're played back at the original 23.976 fps instead of 25 fps).
E.g. on The Big Bang Theory it's pretty evident.
Maybe not all shows are pitch corrected?

It used to be very common, and is less common now, because of the issues induced by pitch correction.

Musicals are the only exceptions that I know of that still always get pitch corrected. I try to steer clients away when possible.