giles
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Pitch bend pedal
#940135 - 11/09/11 08:46 PM
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I need to be able to play quarter tones on a fretted guitar and would like to be able to
do this with a foot pedal. The desired effect should be like a pitch bend wheel on a synth
keyboard. does anyone have experience with this and could they recommend a pedal?
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Here be Dragons
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: giles]
#940147 - 11/09/11 09:19 PM
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maybe the digitech whammy pedal.
but it'll require some serious hand/foot
coordination to do much at any speed....
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uphillbothways
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: giles]
#940164 - 11/09/11 10:58 PM
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If you just need the odd quartertone for Middle-eastern music, the Whammy should just
about cut it. If you're playing modernist or jazz music based on quartertone scales, it
probably won't. The Roland VG99 is a more sophisticated option, as it can pitch-shift each
string independently and can be controlled over MIDI. Not cheap, but it's an extremely
powerful tool. The VG99 does guitar-to-MIDI, so you could use it to control Pure Data or
Max/MSP if you're doing anything microtonal.
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zenguitar
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: giles]
#940165 - 11/09/11 11:07 PM
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Quote giles:
I need to be able to
play quarter tones on a fretted guitar and would like to be able to do this with a foot
pedal. The desired effect should be like a pitch bend wheel on a synth keyboard. does
anyone have experience with this and could they recommend a pedal?
Either the Whammy pedal as already
suggested, and I agree that it won't be easy to co-ordinate. Or get the guitar fretted for
24 notes per octave. Any decent luthier can do it, the fret positions are easily
calculated. And if you need precise measurements send me a PM with the scale length and
I'll calculate them for you.
Andy 
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When the going gets weird, the Weird turn Pro.
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giles
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: giles]
#940191 - 12/09/11 07:41 AM
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thanks for your replies, I have to be away for a week so I will return to this thread
then.
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Mixedup
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: zenguitar]
#942510 - 22/09/11 09:24 AM
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Quote zenguitar:
Either the
Whammy pedal as already suggested...
or
better still the Morpheus Bomber. But the same practical problems still apply.
You *could* use a MIDI foot controller and use computer software to do the
pitch-shifting.
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AllyB
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: Mixedup]
#943575 - 27/09/11 11:22 AM
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EHX hog
just set the throw on the pedal adjustment to the bend you want.
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artifus
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Re: Pitch bend pedal
[Re: AllyB]
#944315 - 30/09/11 04:48 PM
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lofi diy option: cheap delay pedal that allows wet (delay) only signal out with zero
repeats/no feedback. hack stereo jack onto delay time pot. insert expression pedal.
practice foot. profit.
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