phil_m Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I made this little clip last night as a "proof of concept" more than anything. I'd wanted to try this for a while, and I don't know why I waited so long to do it. I assigned the pitch of the B-string on my JTV69 to be controlled by an expression pedal to emulate a B-Bender (min offset set 0, max set to +2 semitones). It works OK as long you make the transitions relatively fast. It isn't going to give a slow pitch bend. It actually doesn't really bend between the pitches - it just alternates between the two pitches. I should give a caveat that I'm not really a B-Bender type player, so I'm just messing around here. Could be a cool effect in the right situation, though. https://soundcloud.com/phil-miller-20/jtv-helix-b-bender-demo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco_Crocco Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Wow that's pretty ingenious, Phil. Sounds great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 Well, I can't claim credit for the idea. Eric, aka Digital Igloo, mentioned it a few times over on TGP, and possibly here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangha Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Hey Phil! May I ask how you assigned the pitch shifter to 1 string only? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Hey Phil! May I ask how you assigned the pitch shifter to 1 string only? Thanks This wasn't done using a pitch shift effect. This was done by assigning the pitch of the B-string in the Variax in the input block to be controlled by an expression pedal. The pitch of the individual strings can be treated like any other controllable parameter, so you can have it controlled by an expression pedal, a footswitch or with a snapshot change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothermohammad Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 i made a b bender since seeing this i can't nigure she tout so good but you need a variax BrentMaHussain.hlx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somebodyelse Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Shame I couldn't access the clip, nevertheless, the idea sounds really cool. I actually own a B Bender Tele, so the title caught my attention. Don't really know much about the Variax, but seems like a fascinating bit of kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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