Hedra
3-Voice Rhythmic Pitch Shifter
Her Light Will Change Us
“We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams…” – Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1873)
Angelo Mazzocco
I grew up idolizing how the 90s guitar giants used their unobtainable big box pitch shifters, the Hedra branches out from there with all new mind bending sounds and capabilities.
Powerful in Execution
Plug in to Hedra to expand your melody palette and unfold your landscape. 3 voices, in rhythm combine with your original voice to create angelic harmonies. Each voice can be delayed and fed back in 4 intricate matrices for either predictable or unpredictable results. Explore endless creative avenues with pitch corrective locking and glide modes, either smooth or hard stepped. Add sonic unease and texture by micro tuning each voice.
SOUND CLIPS
3-Voice Rhythmic Pitch Shifter
- Selectable Pitch Correction Types to ReVoice your Melodies in RealTime
- Individual Controls for Pitch and Time Offset for each Voice (3 Voices Total)
- Micro Tune control creates gentle chorus-like detuning, classic studio fattening, and extreme warping
- Chromatic or Key Driven Harmony with Selectable Scale Types
- 4 Delay Configurations with unique Feedback Routing (520 mS max delay time)
- Unique Keyboard Control putting a Live Quartet Under your Fingertips
- Our Original Glide Mode slides between pitches at the speed you choose
- Choice to sweep through Intervals smoothly or hard step for dramatic pitch effects
- Switchable Half Speed and Auto Swell for advanced textures
- Digitally controlled Analog mix control
- Stereo input and output
- Switchable input / output headroom level for Guitar or Synth / Line level
- Multi-function EXP jack for optional expansion: MIDI, Preset Switch, Expression Pedal or Tap Switch with compatible hardware. (Expansion hardware not included)
- Expression pedal control over all parameters simultaneously
- Presets available via external 4-Preset switch or MIDI
- MIDI in/out over TRS via the EXP jack with compatible MIDI to TRS conversion box (not included)
- External Tap Tempo over TRS
- MIDI beat clock synchronization
- Premium analog signal path and 24-bit AD/DA w/32 bit floating point DSP
- Premium Analog Devices JFET input section
- Color – raw brushed aluminum with clear coat
- Designed and built in Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
- Premium quality 24 bit A/D and D/A
- 32 Bit floating point DSP hardware
- Premium low noise Analog signal path throughout
- Digitally controlled Analog Dry path for wet/dry mix
- Analog Devices JFET input circuitry
- Selectable True Bypass (Relay) or Analog Buffered Bypass
- Durable transparent coated brushed aluminum
- Current draw < 150 mA
- Dimensions – 4.25″ wide, 4.5″ long, 2″ tall
Manual
Factory Presets
Blank Preset Sheets (All 5)
WATCH AND LISTEN Hedra Preset Sounds
BADSNACKS "...blowing my mind with all kinds of crazy new sounds, harmonies and atmospheres and ugh my heart.'
THE PEDAL ZONE "Do I like the Hedra? I Freakin LOVE it."
PEDALS AND EFFECTS "It sounds F'N awesome." "This is the most forward-thinking pitch shifter that I've ever seen."
Reviews
They think so far outside the box they’d probably need Google Earth to find their way back inside it again!
It’s not intended solely for processing guitars — the designers have added the ability to switch the input/output headroom levels to suit guitar, electronic keyboards or line-level signals.
Some companies build stompboxes; and then there’s Meris. Meris are undeniably revolutionising the way players consider exactly what constitutes a guitar pedal.
It’s a serious pedal that should almost be considered more as a studio tool than a mainstay in your gig rig, but it’s portable and rugged enough to sit pretty on your pedalboard should you please.