HARMONIZER- MOOER Pitch Box... is it EVH in a box???

 MOOER PITCH BOX 

$42.00 USD

There are many pitch related pedals. Octave pedals which give 2 or 3 fixed choices. Others are built into a volume or Wha casings that can sweep through an entire range. Others even let you fix what key you are playing in so the harmony's are related and not just a fixed parallel harmony. 

The Mooer lets you dial in any parallel pitch over a 2 octave range. If you are into this there are many choices including high end high spec pedals. 

But I am focusing on the Mooer because of it's ease to create a doubling effect with it's detuning option.

EVH is famous for putting himself on the map by playing live off the floor in the studio and not doing additional tracks. It caused a problem when recording because when you put out a stereo recording the drums, bass and vocals are traditionally in the center and there is usually one guitar on the one side of the stereo image and a second guitar of keyboard on the other. They got around this by using the Eventide Harmonizer by slightly detuning it. In other words if you played an A440 pitch from the guitar they could tune it to A438 etc. It creates the illusion of one guy playing the same part twice. The real guitar on one side and the detuned guitar on the other.The reason it works is no mater how tight you play the same part both the timing and the pitch of the notes you play are different. No one plays with machine timing and you finger will always move the string up or down a tiny bit every time you press it down.

The Mooer may be only on the first rung on the pro ladder but you not asking it to do much. If for example had a problem getting perfect tracking it would actually make it sound even more convincing as it would have a more human like control of a strings pitch.The bottom line as it punches a way past it's weight ...in short it does the job!!

CONCLUSION

Ideally a box to do this right would be just a 'Detune' pedal with a knob to give you a setting for both -2 and +2. as that is what the Eventide provided. But to be fair the Eventide ran in stereo. Running 2 signals may cause phasing issues since both signals would be going into mono. 

If you have a digital delay with a modulation setting the delay to a short single repeat could work as well. 

$36.00 USD

OPTION

ROWIN HARMONIZER

Mooer make pedals for over 25 different companies. Most are Mooer pedals with just the paint and labeling changed. No they do NOT dumb down the parts.  Mooer owns a super high tech factory that do 2000 pedals a day. Often it is the same pedal.

Except for control over your wet and dry it has identical functions. It is one of Mooers standard predrilled casings they do many other pedals in this same box.

In short the Rowin is Mooer.

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NOTE: 

All my pricing is from AliExpress.

A lot of Bricks & Mortor stores sell Mooer products

so if one is in your area check it out. You can also

check out any of the other pedals in this line, then 

compare the price with the re-brands on AliExpress 

Often the re-brands are 30% less or even cheaper.

Mooer do not rebrand very recent additions to their

offerings or in this case a very big seller like the

Pitch Box. The Harmonizer could be as good or better

but outside of buying both???