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Me bro wrote: "Actually, I seem to have forgotten that boss makes a diatonic style harmonizer pedal, Doh! Haven't tried it though." Actually, after being really unhappy with my old school Digitech Red Whammy pedal, I discovered that the Boss PS-5 Super Shifter has both simple intelligent harmonizing capabilities and simple parallel shifting capabilities as well. I love the 'theremin effect' that one can get with the expression pedal on the old Digitech Red Whammy pedal (which actually has some beautiful and very musical artifacts in it if you have the original one) but it was just so damned noisy that it compromised my whole chain of effects; exacerbatet by having an AKG C1000s condenser microphone at it's start) so I was thrilled to discover that the BOSS PS-5 has an expression pedal in. I just used it as my only 'effect' on my Europe/UK tour and loved it. There's nothing like getting a single dayglo orange frisbee to be a kick drum and any pitch of tom tom that you want! You have to predetermine which scale you want to have harmonized so I didn't find it all that helpful (due to the fact that I was mostly using found sound sources) but I didn't delve to heavily into that world. I also like the forcing of suspended and dissonant harmonies by using paralell or incorrectly harmonized pitches, so it produced some very 'happy' accidents. The quality of the sound, however, was excellent, it has low noise (way quiter than the Digitech) and I can highly recommend the pedal. I love artifacts so much that I'm even considering buying a second one to put in the chain. I love screwing up the sound by pitch shifting down two octaves and then taking the results and pitch shifting back up two octaves. You get the same pitch you began with including a lot of juicy and weird artifacts. ********************** And, while we're at it, I also had read that the relatively new and ludicrously cheap Danelectro Chili Dog Octaver pedal tracked better and had a cleaner sound than the tried and true brown Boss Octaver and the rumors were completely true. You can get them for only $29 USD (that's like 5 Euros right............................lol) through Musicians Friend or , preferably, your local independent music store. Arild Andersen borrowed mine and made me sell it to him after A-Bing the Boss and the Chili Dog. It has three knobs for normal sound, one octave down and two octaves down and it really tracks nicely..............one of the best deals in all stompboxdom.