![]() I might be OK with just octave up/octave down but I'm hoping to get something with more choices than just that. I'd consider that feature the lowest priority on my acquisition list, not nearly as everyday a thing as looping and long delays with feedback or my Freeze function. That worked good in the Eccos (as long as I was willing to reassign the pedal every couple of days) so I need to replicate that in my Eccos replacement.Īnd I'd still like some sort of pitch shifting function, albeit for very occasional use. I like riding the pedal while I play to sort of swell in and out from runaway oscillation to quick decay as a form of "dynamics" to what I'm playing. I need a nice-sounding delay on which I can control the feedback with an expression pedal. Once I receive the Ditto I'll have two functions I need to cover, hopefully with a single pedal. It also has a convenient one-shot trigger option on the FX switch. I found a good deal on a used Ditto X4 from the TGP Emporium and with the Decay knob it will do basically what the SOS feature of the Eccos does. This time around I've decided to split out the Sound-on-Sound looper into a standalone pedal. I'd be willing to get putting up with that if not for the constantly losing my external control settings. I'm also not totally in love with being unable to see what setting the alt function are currently set to on each knob. So I'm sending it back and going in another direction. ![]() And something about saving presets seems to undo the expression pedal assignment. I don't know what triggers it, sometimes it forgets after a power cycle, sometimes after I change a couple of the alt functions. ![]() Yesterday I had to re-initialize the footswitch setting and re-assign the expression pedal from Blend to Feedback for about the eighth or ninth time in two weeks of owning the pedal. My Keeley Eccos has a habit of randomly forgetting my programming for external footswitches and expression pedal. The grand plan for completing my pedal setup has veered off course. I do realize it's borderline insane to have a dual-delay DD-500, another delay Eccos and be Jones after some more delay functions in my pitch-shift pedal. I just want to turn knobs until I find sounds I like and then loop and improvise the afternoon away. So I'm not really concerned about which of these would work better at a gig or anything like that. I'm totally an at-home tinkerer, explorer and dabbler playing for my own amusement. Are the tone quality differences between the two? But the Hedra has a third voice, all the trippy "rhythmic" delay possibilities, the ability to work diatonically in a key in addition to chromatic intervals, the list goes on.įrom YouTube demos they both sound just little synth-ish but still with a hint of guitar-like tone sneaking in there. So what's the trade offs here? I'd imagine Pitch Fork+ is 100% easier to use. I think a few modulations and such can be applied to the added voices.īut for not a heck of a lot more money I think Meris Hedra does everything the Pitch Fork+ does (correct me if that's a wrong assumption) but almost endless ways of adding additional "stuff" along with the pitch shifted voices. Two added voices which can be any intervals. I think in EXH terms that means spending about $200-$250 on a Pitch Fork+ pedal. What I really want is "another voice up/another voice down" without being limited to octave intervals. But after researching a little I realized both of those were your basic octave-up/octave-down functions. My initial idea was "get a POG or something like that" which kind of morphed into "get either a Nano POG or Boss OC-5". The only thing I really lack is an easily accessed "one shot" phrase loop function. I keep the Eccos in SOS looper mode and use the DD-500 for basic looping. When I started playing electric guitar my wish list for pedals was:īetween a Boss DD-500 and a Keeley Eccos I have 1-4 covered and some nice doubling-up possible with up to three delays and/or two loopers. I have been assembling my first set of pedals and have just one type of function remaining.
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