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Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:30 am
by karmablock
I still want one but i think I'm going to wait until they start coming up used.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:24 am
by Adoom
A touch disappointed. It will notatall approximate a Bazantar.

I echo the sentiments of rbtr abov, however.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:59 am
by retinal orbita
monkeydancer wrote:why shouldn't someone be able to sound like a sitar if they want?


That's just how I feel about it..... just emulating the sound won't actually sound like a sitar anyway, same with the drone strings....... all I know is that when I die and go to heaven will George Harrison want to shake my hand and then want to have a sick jam or will he look away and mutter "sitar poseur" under his breath.........

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:26 pm
by andtheLiquidmen
Doesn't sound sitar-like in the least. Perhaps if in an open tuning with some actual sitar-like playing it could sound a bit less hokey.

I had my Jerry Jones clone sounding a hell of a lot closer just by playing differently.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:33 pm
by dubkitty
hell, i had my Les Paul sounding more like a sitar through a Phantom Ring and a chorus.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:03 pm
by theactionindex
Meh. It has some interesting functions, but overall I was pretty damn underwhelmed.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:23 pm
by aen
Sounds like a freeze and a POG.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:37 pm
by veteransdaypoppy
aen wrote:Sounds like a freeze and a POG.


qft

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:16 am
by GiAnt_ROboT
Yup sounds kinda meh. I saw this on another forum. Its a way cheaper alternative and sounds better
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Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:49 am
by retinal orbita
Wow I bet George Harrison would totally want to hang out with that guy...... can you post the forum link? I'd like to turn a shitty strat knock off I have into that sort of thing.......

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:17 am
by Joe Gress
The drone + fuzz sounded sick as tits! But the rest kinda meh. Like a lot of extra added treble and glitchyness.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:29 am
by Holy Schnikes
aen wrote:Sounds like a freeze and a POG.

Yep. Plus the POG can put forth a shit ton of other awesome, useable sounds. Why drop all that cash on a "Sitar" emulator with POGs and POG2s available used at fair prices? I'm thinking most people won't.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:26 pm
by Alicetheenigma
Hate the play the devil's advocate here, but this Ravish Sitar pedal is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I've been looking for something that'll allow me to have a drone under a solo/interlude, or a riff like the guitarist in the video did. That fuzz+drone thing he did was a total 'sound in my head' kind of thing. I can honestly say I understand why you guys are disappointed, it's not a sitar, but I think if you WANTED IT TO BE, it would be.... hell, run a squier strat into one of these with that mod to make it sound like a sitar. I also loved that it could sound like a chorus pedal, it could probably be used as a flanger or phaser, and had that pitch bender expression pedal out, which I was afraid would sound like a lame whammy knockoff, but sounded like it bent the pitch up a half step to a whole step, which I've ALSO wanted to for a while. That pitch bender doing vibrato+the player doing lots of virbato+that sitar drone/sitar emulated sound+fuzzzzzz=Something I'm not quite yet sure the world is ready for. :!!!:

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:21 pm
by dubkitty
i'm not disappointed that it fails to emulate a sitar perfectly, i'm disappointed because it sounds so thin and cheesy. i was hoping for something with richer overtones in the drones in particular, but instead it has that sort of unpleasantly artificial weedy quality the POGs have that i really don't like. it seems like a really interesting idea realized to about 15% of its potential. but then, if it did the kind of things i'm hearing in my head, it'd be a guitar synth LOL.

Re: EHX Sitar Pedal

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:54 am
by Adoom
Alicetheenigma wrote:Hate the play the devil's advocate here, but this Ravish Sitar pedal is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I've been looking for something that'll allow me to have a drone under a solo/interlude, or a riff like the guitarist in the video did. That fuzz+drone thing he did was a total 'sound in my head' kind of thing. I can honestly say I understand why you guys are disappointed, it's not a sitar, but I think if you WANTED IT TO BE, it would be.... hell, run a squier strat into one of these with that mod to make it sound like a sitar. I also loved that it could sound like a chorus pedal, it could probably be used as a flanger or phaser, and had that pitch bender expression pedal out, which I was afraid would sound like a lame whammy knockoff, but sounded like it bent the pitch up a half step to a whole step, which I've ALSO wanted to for a while. That pitch bender doing vibrato+the player doing lots of virbato+that sitar drone/sitar emulated sound+fuzzzzzz=Something I'm not quite yet sure the world is ready for. :!!!:


Fret not dude, to each their own! And remember, the world didn't know it was ready for Hendrix until the man ripped into them with his sonic wonder.