PEDALBOARD
MicroPitch Delay
Eventide ports another classic effect into its own dedicated pedal
Words Trevor Curwen Photography Olly Curtis
MANUFACTURER EVENTIDE
MODEL MICROPITCH DELAY
PRICE £279
CONTACT SOURCE DISTRIBUTION 020 8962 5080 WWW.EVENTIDEAUDIO.COM
EVENTIDE
As you’d expect from a company that’s been around as long as Eventide, there are some classic effects in its roster. And recently the brand decided to put some of them into a series of dedicated pedals. Last year, we took a look at the Blackhole reverb pedal and now it’s the turn of an effect that’s been at the core of what the company has done for decades. First seen in the rackmount H910 and H949 effects processors, and subsequently in the H3000 Harmonizer, the MicroPitch effect is used as a stereo widening tool to make sounds bigger, accomplished by applying a small amount of pitch shifting (a few cents) to the source signal and panning the upshifted and downshifted signals left and right. That pitch shifting is now available in this dedicated pedal, alongside stereo delay that can be combined with it.