A soundclip using my Deja Vu and the Morpheus Capo

[Kosh Naranek]

I recorded a quick sound clip using the Deja Vu I got on Saturday, and the Morpheus Capo:
Deja Vu demo clip

Then I decided to redo a few things, tweak some tones, and add reverb:
Soft Place to Fall

There are 3 guitars, all through the Deja Vu. The swell/pad is a guitar with a volume pedal and the Capo pedal, and a little chorus added. Guitars were recorded direct, and Amplitube and Revalver software amp simulators were used on guitar tracks. The reverb is the Sonnox plugin reverb.

[B Bent]

Re: A soundclip using my Deja Vu and the Morpheus Capo

I recorded a quick sound clip using the Deja Vu I got on Saturday, and the Morpheus Capo:
Deja Vu demo clip

Then I decided to redo a few things, tweak some tones, and add reverb:
Soft Place to Fall

There are 3 guitars, all through the Deja Vu. The swell/pad is a guitar with a volume pedal and the Capo pedal, and a little chorus added. Guitars were recorded direct, and Amplitube and Revalver software amp simulators were used on guitar tracks. The reverb is the Sonnox plugin reverb.

Sounded good. I have been intrigued by the morpheus capo. Is it pretty decent?

[TheLivingDead]

Re: A soundclip using my Deja Vu and the Morpheus Capo

Sounds awesome, man!

[Kosh Naranek]

Re: A soundclip using my Deja Vu and the Morpheus Capo

Sounded good. I have been intrigued by the morpheus capo. Is it pretty decent?

It's pretty straighforward, does what it's supposed to. I was using it to pitch shift the faded in chords an octave up, which when you run that through chorus, delay and reverb, you can get a lovely string pad effect. When I set the pitch shift up an octave on some of my rack units, it gets so warbly and out of tune that it's unuseable. I recently found that my Rocktron Multivalve does a fairly good job of 1 octave pitch transposition - about as good as the Capo. I was gonna start using that for this kind of stuff, but when I saw the Capo on clearance, I grabbed it. It saves a lot of time just hooking up a pedal and recording. With rack effects, sometimes by the time you hook up cables, try to remember how to program the thing, and then tweak and save presets, the weekend is over and you have no time left to actually record music. And the Multivalve is routed internally so that if you use pitch shift in conjunction with its chorus, reverb and delay, the other effects process and mix back in the un-transposed signal. So I could only do pitch shift with it anyway.

The one thing that disappointed me about the Capo is that Morpheus evidently didn't think anyone was still interested in the 80's fifths lead guitar effect, because you cannot mix in the dry signal when transposed up a fifth. I wanted to fade in some fifths in that piece, but discovered the Capo doesn't let you. No wet/dry mix knob like on a rack pitch shifter. It lets you transpose a second, third, fourth, fifth and an octave. Only at the octave setting do you have the choice of having it output the dry signal with the pitch shifted signal, for a 12 string effect.