15 Best Pitch Shifter & Octave Guitar Pedals

While the Boss is excellent, it doesn’t have everything you could ever dream of. This Eventide unit almost certainly does. If changing pitch is even remotely involved — and yes, that includes a tuner — this unit can do it. It’s expensive as it is difficult to master, so you would choose this if you found all other options lacking. If you’re still looking for it after you’ve tried this, it might not exist yet.

Controls are abundant and give you finite adjustment of the many parameters at your disposal. There’s an over all Mix for the unit as a whole, as well as a Pitch Mix. There are two knobs apiece for Pitch and Delay, as well as Depth/Key, Speed/Scale, Xnob, and Ynob, whose functions all change depending on which of the ten pitch-based modes you’ve chosen.

There’s a tap tempo, and inputs include stereo 1/4 inch ins and outs, external aux and expression switches, and USB that allows for MIDI use. You can change the inputs and outputs to instrument/amp or line.

The unit comes with 100 presets, but an unlimited number are available via MIDI. Like all of the Eventide Factor pedals, this is basically a rack unit condensed into a stompbox, so the sound quality is studio-level. If you can spare the cash and pedalboard space, this will certainly deliver everything you need.

If you want even more than that, opt for the Eventide H9, which takes up less space on your pedalboard, but includes all algorithms from the company’s pedals. It will also make considerable room in your bank account.

The Gearwire demo is about 15 minutes long and is but a sampling of what it can do.

In part because of the shift of late to the H9, you should be able to find PitchFactor units used on Reverb at a decent discount from new.

Specs:

• Range: Three octaves below to three octaves above
• Blend?: Yes
• Polyphonic?: Yes
• True bypass?: Yes
• Expression pedal?: Exp jack provided