New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

[Boogie Bill]

I actually just picked up a used Boss PS-5 Super Shifter. Looks brand new.

Anybody use one of these? Any favorite settings? Where do you put yours in your pedal chain?

I'm probably only going to use the Harmonizer setting on two songs to re-create a twin-guitar harmony lead parts.

Bill

 

[WhoFan]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

i only have an old MIJ Boss Super Phaser... i've been wanting to try one of these modern versions

 

[aleclee]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I put it pretty much at the end. In addition to basic harmonization, I'd put a very small pitch shift as a less swirly chorus effect.

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I have an old Boss PS-3 I bought from some Japanese chick maybe a decade ago. It's awesome.


Sometimes I wish I had an expression pedal for it so I could get all whammy and sheet.

Those things sound pretty nice as a chorus though. It can be handy live to add a upward sparkle ( I'm sorry, I don't know how else to describe it).

Harmonizer stuff sounds kinda cheezy on it though so I don't use it for that. And then when you want to get all atonal and stuff you loop a phrase and go nuts with the knobbies.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I own a PS-2 and just got rid of my PS-3 recently . . . those pedals were good for weird stuff, but not so good for note tracking. The PS-5 was supposed to be a lot better for pitch shifting, so I'd be interested to hear what you think about it.

I put the pedals before distortion whenever I was using the pitch shifting sounds, and at the end of my chain when I was using them as delay/chorus/flanger pedals.

 

[kjrocks]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I own a PS-2 and just got rid of my PS-3 recently . . . those pedals were good for weird stuff, but not so good for note tracking. The PS-5 was supposed to be a lot better for pitch shifting, so I'd be interested to hear what you think about it.

I put the pedals before distortion whenever I was using the pitch shifting sounds, and at the end of my chain when I was using them as delay/chorus/flanger pedals.

I've never checked these out closely. Do they really do all that stuff?

 

[guitarded]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I actually just picked up a used Boss PS-5 Super Shifter. Looks brand new.

Anybody use one of these? Any favorite settings? Where do you put yours in your pedal chain?

I'm probably only going to use the Harmonizer setting on two songs to re-create a twin-guitar harmony lead parts.

Bill

Mine only sounded good in the loop... Some really weird artifact tones happening when it was in front of the amp. What amp or guitar I used did make a difference, but sounded neat in the loop. The minor 3rd harmony feature really sounded cool. The detune feature was a nice alternative to a full chorus unit. I ended up selling it because it was more of a novelty item then a useful pedal fro me. I do miss it though.

 

[guitarded]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I own a PS-2 and just got rid of my PS-3 recently . . . those pedals were good for weird stuff, but not so good for note tracking. The PS-5 was supposed to be a lot better for pitch shifting, so I'd be interested to hear what you think about it.

I put the pedals before distortion whenever I was using the pitch shifting sounds, and at the end of my chain when I was using them as delay/chorus/flanger pedals.

I never had any issues with the tracking on that pedal.

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I never had any issues with the tracking on that pedal.

The octave down and up on both pedals doesn't stay in tune . . . there's some kind of weird jitter with both pedals. If you're playing clean it's very noticeable.

I've never checked these out closely. Do they really do all that stuff?

The PS-3 has delay, reverse delay, single and double pitch shifting, a couple of weird arpeggiation modes, and some whammy-type external pedal control. I always thought that they were mediocre at pitch shifting but pretty sweet as delay/noise boxes.

The PS-2 has delay, octave up/down modes, and manual pitch shifting. It's also a very dirty sounding digital delay that you can do some cool self-oscillating tricks with.

I haven't used a PS-5, but I thought they did away with all the wacky stuff and made it more of a dedicated pitch shifter.

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

I'm actually having some fun with this, though I'm only using the Harmonizer mode.

Kinda nice having another guitarist in the band that makes the same mistakes I do!!! LOL!

Bill

 

[jcthejester13]

Re: New Pedal Day: Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter

It is really cool to have 2 together... You can get an overly-metallic twang sound like somebody just punched a garbage can. oooooor not really the tone you are looking for?

I thought it was cool.