Easiest Way to get good Guitar Harmonies

[evhwanabe]

Yeah I know find another guitar player! but I like doing things the hard way. What is the best pedal/rack mount unit that can actually replicate or create a harmonized guitar part? Is there such a unit? I have a line 6 vetta combo right now that has an onboard harmony effect that sounds cool most of the time but when you hit a certain note it just doesn't sound right. Any of you guys having luck with anything else? I want to use this live or else I would just play the second part my self if recording.
thanks

 

[juststartingout]

Just learn how to play them....it's not that hard!!

 

[Buck62]

Check out the Digitech Whammy.

It's as good as it gets for the money.

 

[evhwanabe]

Just learn how to play them....it's not that hard!!

If you actually read my post you would know that that's not what I am asking! If you can play harmonies by yourself with one guitar in a live situation than you are a better guitar player than I am and your name is probably Stanley Jordan lol.

 

[evhwanabe]

Check out the Digitech Whammy.

It's as good as it gets for the money.

Thanks Buck62 I will look into that

 

[playit]

Yeah, he's talking about harmonies not harmonics!

 

[foo]

For clean sounds, you can actually do it yourself.
If you think about it as two (or more) notes, you're going to psych yourself out (although if you practise enough, you can still do it that way) but if you think about your harmonized notes as peices of chords, it becomes easier to get you rhead around it.

For distortion, you need some help. I seem to remember an Eventide Harmonizer that you could program to play harmonies in keys that you select. Don't know if they're still available, or if they even still make them.
You need to have it programmable by key - other wise it doesn't play the right notes when you need it to.

Hope this helps.

 

[Armistice]

I have a Digitech RP14D that does this - you have to tell it what key and what harmony though. Have never really tried it as I don't like the sound of pitch shifted guitar all that much - could be useful as an undertone though.