DigiTech HarmonyMan - First Impressions!

I've been playing around with the new DigiTech HarmonyMan guitar pedal and I'm really impressed - best tracking, lowest latency, and highest quality of any shifter I've ever played with!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• pedal
• digitech
• harmonyman
• musiq
• 3dbresearch
• harmony
• harmonizer
• pitch
• shifter

[exaltedone]

Near the end, he says no other pedal can give you a step down without the dry signal. That's just not true. My Electro-Harmonix HOG can do that just fine. It can also give me a step up.

It can also do a whole heck of a lot more...even if it is double the price. :)

[grapevineguitar]

I've used the HOG - yes it can do a step down fully wet, but I would never use it like that because the shift quality doesn't even come close to the HarmonyMan. I like the POG actually, but not for crisp clean intelligent harmonies, and lead line pitch shifts. It's really a different beast all together.

[peterfalahee]

hi there a quick story ....i bought this pedal and i cannot get a good queen harmony sound...i do a queen set at the end of our gig...but when i try the solo i want to break free for example ...it sounds out of tune can you quide me or help me in any way please....if you say a 5th up and a 3rd down it means nothing i dont understand all that stuff what setting have you on your two voices for queen thank you peter

[grapevineguitar]

I think a lot of Queen stuff sounds good with the distortion using the HM distortion loop, and one voice of harmony set to 3H (try a 5H voice too sometimes). It will absolutely sound out of tune if you use the wrong key though - make sure you set the key correctly. There's a good example on YouTube - search for Killer Queen and HarmonyMan.

[SRVisthebest]

Will it let you change key while your playing or do you have to do it manually?

[grapevineguitar]

If you use musIQ it will follow your key. If you want to change keys while playing, you can just hold down the footswitch and strum a chord to change key. But if the key changes on the fly, I just use the presets and pre-store the key in each preset - then I just step from one to the other during the song.

[theultimaterockr]

Could you do another demo with a high gain distortion?

[xdivinebladex]

what do you mean "kinda" jazzy? Take 5 man! :D

[guitarman5560]

I just have to have this pedal on my board.

[Preludiumi]

I am Iron Man

[nintendoor1]

What are the advantages of using dist pedals in loop(besides having it post distortion obviously)like,what does it do for the tone of the harmonys?and also,if your distortions in the loop,can you still use it with the rest of chain?like when the harmony man is off?

[brandon9271]

have you used the HM2 yet?

[sclogse1]

I'd like to get a west montgomery octave sound...anybody try that on their archtop?

[Dedalusalley]

I was wondering how should I do if for example I wanna connect the harmony man with a delay and a reverb pedal all in the fx loop. Do I still have to connect the output of the guitar to the input of the harmony man or can I put the guitar on the fx that are in the chain that goes to the input of the amp? I'm a little bit confused :)

[joniiboy]

The tone you have going on there would be great for video game music :)

[handhband]

hi im in a heavy melodic metal band and we cant find another guitarist so i was gonna cover it all and get a harmonizing pedal would this be good with alot of distortion?

[cyberflea07]

can you harmonize ninth's ,eleventh 's and thirteenth's  above and below the original pitch with this nice little toy?

[sixxstringmf]

picked one up last week,,and it IS the best by far!!