Pitch Fork or Whammy V?

[coldbrightsunlight]

The ricochet doesn't but with the rise/fall times and the switching it does a lot of the same things, but yeah I have an expression pedal I never use which is why the pitchfork is definitely an option. Sorry I'll stop hijacking

[Paul_C]

plus you can plug an EHX 8 Step Program into the Pitch Fork for even more crazy shenanigans

[Gone Fission]

So, to summarize, the hive mind is saying to get a Pitchfork, an 8 Step, an expression pedal, a Ricochet, and a V.

[neonblack]

[Smarty]

Not tried a pitchfork but the whammy V (which is the same algorithm as the ricochet as people have said) is great with chords. It's slightly slow tracking but it's not very noticeable unless you're playing fast riffs. It doesn't bother me.

That's good to hear. I'm not much of a riff miester anyway, let alone a fast one, so I don't think a tiny bit of slow tracking will give me any jip.

[ck3]

I have no Whammy V or Pitchfork experience, but have been tinkering with a Ricochet for a few months.

The only irritance thus far has been slight latency/doubling when the momentary switch is on, though I've primarily been using it in true bypass mode to emulate a recording slowing to a stop and bass guitar, so the momentary mode hasn't seen that much action.

If you're just looking to periodically bend chords and don't mind rhythmically stomping a soft switch to trigger the effect, slight doubling at all times, or have any other pedals that react poorly to buffers, the Ricochet's momentary mode should prove useful. The artifacts I mentioned are easily obscured with washes of ambient/shoegazey effects like reverse reverb.

[Smarty]

I have no Whammy V or Pitchfork experience, but have been tinkering with a Ricochet for a few months.

The only irritance thus far has been slight latency/doubling when the momentary switch is on, though I've primarily been using it in true bypass mode to emulate a recording slowing to a stop and bass guitar, so the momentary mode hasn't seen that much action.

If you're just looking to periodically bend chords and don't mind rhythmically stomping a soft switch to trigger the effect, slight doubling at all times, or have any other pedals that react poorly to buffers, the Ricochet's momentary mode should prove useful. The artifacts I mentioned are easily obscured with washes of ambient/shoegazey effects like reverse reverb.

So if I was just to kick it on for choruses or breaks, so as to give a bit of variation to the song, it would do fine? That's what I'm really looking to do with it. I'm not planning on doing any Tom Morello stylee stuff.

[ck3]

The latching (non-momentary) mode requires two stomps to engage and bypass and transitons off/on at a rate based on ballistics knob settings, so it probably isn't ideal for brief pitch variations, though would work if you wanted to virtually "retune" your instrument mid-song.

Momentary mode works best for intermittent pitch bends, but adds the artifacts mentioned above, which are more apparent if there are no other active effects in your signal chain.