A bass pitch shifter pedal allows you to alter the pitch of your bass guitar without any need to re-tune. In this department, you'll find various different types of pitch shifters.
Expand Your Bass Sound With Octavers and Harmonisers
There are various different bass guitar stompboxes in our range of pitch-shifters that you can use to tastefully enhance your sound. One of the most popular options is the octaver: an octave generator that adds either a higher or a lower octave to any notes you play. Here, the octave-down effect results in an extra deep sound, while an octave-up makes sure your bass guitar has an easier time coming out on top of other instruments in the mix. Besides octavers, there are also harmonizer pedals. Harmonizers add different intervals to multiple notes at once and can effortlessly create complex but harmonious sounds. That said, you'll want to be wary of muddying the sound too much, especially if you're playing a lot of really low notes at the same time, like notes below the A on the fifth fret of your low E-string.
Whammy, Drop-Tune and Other Modern Pitch Shifters for Bass Guitar
Other pitch-shifter pedals that are only becoming more popular are drop-tune and whammy pedals. Drop-style effects lower the pitch of your bass to even more extreme depths, while whammy pedals give you a tool to kick the notes up in pitch. Via a foot pedal, you can lower or raise the pitch by anything from a half-step to two octaves. Back in the day, these kinds of pitch shifters offered rather poor tracking performance and they used to be notoriously glitchy due to their monophonic nature. Fortunately, that's now a thing of a past as most modern stompboxes are polyphonic, meaning they're much better at harmonising and are generally more responsive. Not only that, most contemporary pitch-shift effects pedals are true bypass and won't discolour your sound when they're switched off. If you'd rather go for a more all-in-one solution, be sure to browse through our range of Bass Guitar Multi-Effect Pedals.
