Harmonizer plug?

chdrummer

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What's a good plugin that'll harmonize guitars? Sometimes it would be nice to be able to do this when the guitarist isn't around since I don't play the guitar.
 
amplitube has a harmonizer effect on it, but it also deadens the tone unfortunately - unless im doing something wrong (im a bit of a noob)
 
from what i've messed around with harmonizors generally suck - they harmonize too quick and accurate making your track dull and turning it into an almost "single" sounding take and when it comes to bending notes they often fuck up and make weird fucked up completely wrong harmonies.

if your using logic on mac you could play with the pitch correction plugin - or the real backward method, cut your tracks on the transients and shift them up or down in pitch.. but this will lead to all sorts of horriffic problems.

anyway yea amplitube has one built in - so does guitar rig (3 & 4 - not sure about earlier)

there's also the digitech whammy
 
if your using logic on mac you could play with the pitch correction plugin

I know someone will probably tell me to rtfm - but I've done that and I didn't learn much more. How can I use the pitch correction plugin to make a note something completely different than the original source? I can only make it to get as close as possible to the original note - which is what it's for at any rate - but how could I, for example, use it to transfer the notes to completely different notes? This scale thing is kind of beyond me... It only forces the notes to the closest key, and it might force some notes to some keys I don't want it to, even though I've disabled many notes. How do?

This question directly applies to auto-tune as well - one that doesn't have a timegrid or such, but only the keyboard thingy.
 
yeah i've messed with the ampitube one and it sounds like shit. my friends went to chango studios and i heard a clip that he had done with harmonies with a plugin. i wish i could talk to him and find out what the hell he's using, cause it actually sounded natural
 
I know someone will probably tell me to rtfm - but I've done that and I didn't learn much more. How can I use the pitch correction plugin to make a note something completely different than the original source? I can only make it to get as close as possible to the original note - which is what it's for at any rate - but how could I, for example, use it to transfer the notes to completely different notes? This scale thing is kind of beyond me... It only forces the notes to the closest key, and it might force some notes to some keys I don't want it to, even though I've disabled many notes. How do?

This question directly applies to auto-tune as well - one that doesn't have a timegrid or such, but only the keyboard thingy.

right i'll make a small tutorial tomorrow cos i got to sleep - im pushing on 46 hours being awake at the moment
 
I didn't even know something like that existed - I just stick to knowing my music theory - besides how are they going to play the harmonies on stage when they never learned them?
 
I didn't even know something like that existed - I just stick to knowing my music theory - besides how are they going to play the harmonies on stage when they never learned them?

Lol my guitarists are more than capable of learning some harmonies...

I'm lookin forward to the tutorial ross
 
It takes little to no amount of effort to record harmonies; so avoid the fakeness of plugins/pedals.

Unless that's what you're going for in a certain section?
 
It takes little to no amount of effort to record harmonies; so avoid the fakeness of plugins/pedals.

Unless that's what you're going for in a certain section?

It would just be nice for pre pro ideas. Not final tracks. Unless something did sound good enough