Boss PS-6 Harmonist (Demo)
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2010
- A detailed description of the Boss PS-6 Harmonist pedal, new for 2010. Includes a few side-by-side comparisons with its predecessor, the PS-5 Super Shifter.
This video contains a lot of information and was a monster to edit, but I hope it helps.
Before anyone comments on it, my rather liberal use of the phrase "digital warble" is intentional. Look up "warble" in the dictionary and you'll see that it describes exactly the kind of unstable nature of pitch shifting effects. 
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I got drunk last night and ordered this pedal. Must have been the Scorpions I was listening to. I regret nothing after watching this video.
That's hilarious. Scorpions were my first concert as a kid, and though I don't remember it much, I will say that the song Zoo was probably one of the biggest inspirations for me ever picking up a guitar
Daniel Chapman Lol
Daniel Chapman it’s been two years , is this pedal still in your roster or has it been moved aside ? Do you still stand by the purchase ? Great story btw I lol’d
Yeah Boy Get It I Wanna Get One
Still have it?
It's 2023 and I just got value from this video. Thank you, Nick.
Sweet! Glad to know this channel is still helping folks since I stopped making videos a long time ago.
It is 2024 and I still got use out of this video XD. Cheers Nick!
one of the best youtube tutorials I've seen. Pro quality. You need to send it to Boss Corp and ask for a job doing nothing but youtube tutorials for their effects. I bet most of those 157k hits would agree. Straight to the task and completed. No dicking with music, the camera and almost no unnecessary talking(only facts belong in the quality of this tutorial, no opinions)
Thanks for the compliment. It took a while to learn how to edit my own dumb phrases out.
No video for the RC-3. Haven't been doing videos for a while. I went back to school and am balancing that with work. Very little time these days for new video endeavors.
Thanks for great detail and comparison, seriously considering purchasing one myself. This is the first of your Demo's I have watched. I will definitely watch all the rest.
Great formatting on the video. I always wondered what exactly the PS-6 could do, and this video makes it very clear.
Dude, your selling yourself short. All the demo riffs you played were crisp, clean, in tune, and on tempo. Sounds pretty fucking good to me!
Great demo, you took a relatively complex pedal and made it simpler and explained functionality well👍🏼 you’re good at this, thanks dude.
Thank you. I'm out of the pedal demo game now, but comments like this still make me feel proud.
Excellent video Nicholas, thanks for posting, much appreciated. You are very talented!
Great demo dude! And you're playing is totally fine.
I love it when you find EXACTLY the right youtube vid that you want ...on the first try. Great demo dude!! And that little closing jam thingy at 7:50 is just plain cool.
Nicholas, This was very helpful. Thank you for making this video. I was looking for a PS5 and did not know the PS6 replaced it.
Terrific vid. Thanks so much. The one thing I didn't really hear was your take on the PS-6's octave up setting compared to the PS-5's octave up (in harmony mode, which I loved).
This is a great video, man. Thanks so much for your work. Subscribed!
Your playing is good man, this demo was awesome thank you
Great thanks, helped my shopping list a lot, had a few pedals in my sights but gonna go with either of the Boss pedals now x
I love your no nonsense review, excellent demo, your playing is fine man. 😎 [ I immediately liked and subscribed]
Thank you so much for sharing with us, and the excellent reviews you do. Honest, intelligent reviews as always, keep up the good work!
Great demo. Very informative and straight forward.
doing research for the band I'm leading for show, I appreciate this video allot.
Thanks Sxip! I did too!
Amazing demo, Nick; completely informative! Thank you!
I don't have a video for the PS-3, and have been really quiet on making any new videos these past couple of years. I simply stopped buying guitar gear (I now have what I consider my dream rig) and have been nerding out in the cycling world. I'm also returning to school. No promises on making any new videos. Thanks for the support, though.
well made and narrative, very easy on the mind to watch, clarifies a lot, well done, H6UK
One of the BEST presentations on youtube..........MORE!!!!!
Cool. A very well organized demo. Your commentary on what you felt was useful/unnecessary, etc. was honest and straight forth. Thank you.
Very nice video. Straightforward, answers most questions. Thanks for posting
great demo.ive always wanted to try one of these pedals.this was highly informative.thanks for sharing
dude thanks for the review, you made the choice between these two a lot easier for me! cheers
I had a head injury and suffered alot of memory loss. I actually forgot almost 30 years of guitar playing experience and lost my technique, style, everything. Before I got hurt I sat in on alot of local bands recording and had alot of playing experience with different bands in the 80's. I could go from Poison to Morbid Angel and I had my own style of metal blues. It's taken me the past couple of years to get to where I remember almost 90% of what I knew. This video brought back a bunch of memories. By the mid 90's I had mapped out my own pedal chain based on all the pedals I had tried out in Guitar Centers. The Harmonist pedal was one of them I wanted most. I have some of my gear left and after I watched this video I went out to my garage and rebuilt my pedal chain in the same order and ran it into the half stack I've had for over 30 years and plugged in my new Strat and dialed my pedals in. Damn good to be able to remember all this. Until now I've been playing unplugged and through a modeling amp. Thank you for the video. You helped me with alot more than your demo.
Wow! That's incredible! Thank you for sharing your story. Cheers.
I feel you man. I too had a motorcycle accident that made me lose many years of playing ability (20 years in my case) Not just head trauma, but also severe forearm and shoulder damage. It's a long journey back, but never give up on it
Thanks for sharing your insight man. Don't be down on your playing, you sound great. Have fun with it :)
Gotta use them on stereo, speperates it like two guitars panned hard left and hard right. Sounds so good
This was incredibly helpful for me. thank you!
Great demo brother! Nicely maps out the various features and sounds. :)
Great Demo, Boss, owes you money.
I'm already signed up on Google AdSense, but more money is always great!
Great tutorial I actually understood it, and the speed was perfect.
Thank you. It made more sense to simply run through the same scale multiple times to show off the pedal's chops.
dude this is by far the best demo ever about the PS-6 haha thanx a lot (Y)
Thanks for a cool review man! Enlightening and relevant
Best demo...made lots of sense and was very useful...thanks!
Great work here man, very educational.
Thanks for posting this! I've been having a hard time deciding which phase shifter to purchased. PS-6 will probably work for me. :-)
Fantastic review! Very informative and to the point, thank you.
good demo. Thanks. This cleared up a lot of questions
Nic - you did a great job with the Demo , I can't believe somene would be upset over the pronunciation of the pedal
Thanks man. Cheers.
Thanks for the informative vid sir.....getting one of these shortly.
I would never have thought you were a "bad" player bro. haha Good video. Thanks!
This is awesome. We just kicked out our other guitar player and all he really did was harmony parts over the riffs. really added to our music. Ive been looking around and i think one or two of these might just be what i need. hahaha great review man! really helpful and insightful.
He choose his girlfriend who is underage and jobless over band......lol no.
Nice demo. Very informative.
Great review! Thanks!
Thanks, man. I promise I won't be so self-deprecating when (or rather, if) I make videos again.
Thank you for making the video....I appreciate it very much !!!
Remarkably good demo. Thanks
This was a big help. Thanks.
You get straight to the point! Loved it!
great demo of each setting. :-)
great demo man
such a great video
Freaking sweet idea!! Love your thinking!
@addy121
One of the better compliments I've received. Thank you. I'm actually very comfortable with my current skill level (playing for 11 years). I've recorded and played shows; it's just the "turn on the camera and go" thing I'm self-conscious about. I'm not interested in the "Ultimate Guitarmageddon Video Showdown" that's always going on.
Thanks for the video. Very informative.
$125 @ Guitar Center. Thx for the great demonstration!
If I want a Fruciante-"strip my mind"-kind of harmonic, would this be the pedal to go with?
Very helpful video. Thanks a lot.
Melhor review que ja vi !!!
Really great, thank you so much.
nice job, clear and concise thanks a lot
The Fryette head is the Pittbull 100CL. 100-watt EL34 quad set, switchable down to 50 watts. Two channels each with multiple gain-stacking modes, and a graphic EQ. The Orange cab is just a regular PPC412, not the HP version. Amazing sound.
Superb demo
Nice demo thank you
excellent demo, showed all i wanted to know. still im keeping my ps-5, though
You play fine dude. Good demo and I dig the pedal. I bought boss octave pedal instead, but perhaps there's room for this at some stage.
I have both the Octave and Harmonist Boss pedals. They are great together!
What’s the difference between putting it in output B or A(mono)? The Boss oc3 I️ have only works in the mono output.
Extremely thorough,yet concise, helpful demo :) Huge thanks & much Respect ~*
crazy pedal! nice video
No need to excuse your playing. You did a GREAT demo and it is unnecessary to show off any skills to do so. Thanks for sharing!
how about the dry volume when using harmonies? ps-5 reduces a little of ur dry sound when pedal (harmony mode) is on, which is a huge problem when playing live wth ur band..
@squiresuzuki
I must have been thinking in terms of semi-tones (or number of frets) when I put it in there. I'm semi-embarrassed at the flub. Thank you for pointing it out.
Will the PS-6 allow settings to simply sound like you are tuned a 1/2 or whole step down (not harmonized). so I don't have to de-tune any of my guitars? -Thanks
Great comparison/review. I own the PS-6 but I was wondering about the differences between the two and this spelled it out perfectly. I like the octave down pitch shift but my little Mustang I amp doesn't handle frequencies that low so it sounds bad. Can't wait to play with it some more once I get a larger amp. Cheers!
Great video presentation!! Thank you! BTW, do both pedals handle polyphony shifting with ease just as the micro pog? i think i've seen a PS-6 vid actually doing better than micro pog...
Also, i'm building a flight case pedal board, what's your advise, shall i have a very thick foam pressing against the pedals, on the lid part? Thanks again!
I know it's been many years since you made this video, but I would have loved to see the Super Shifter handle, say, runs in Cm using the 3rds setting, then the Harmonist doing the same key/interval. A few A/B comparisons like that would be really helpful.
IMO, harmonisation in-key is the reason these pedals exist, and the other features are just gimmicks (some useful, some not) to make them seem worth the expense.
Your best bet at this point is to run to your local GC, see if both are available, and do a shoot-out. I don't keep either of these pedals on my board anymore. I still have a PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay which I only use on octave-up or octave-down settings. Thanks for checking out my [old] video.
this is a great video
@RisingEternity
I'm not using a distortion pedal at all. I'm using my amp's distortion, and the signal is being sent to/from the effects loop. Watch my video "The Effects Loop: A Practical Guide" for more info.
How does the harmonist deal with changing key centers. Do you have to adjust that knob every time you change keys?
Great review - thanks! :)
Can this pedal make a 2nd minor harmony? What about the s bend function "+2 chromatic"?
How does it track? Also, is it best to put it before or after your compression and drives? I was thinking FX loop, but it's stereo, so perhaps towards the end of the chain.
Thanks for the info! How about overall tracking? Are they comparable or is one clearly better than the other?
great video,thanks!
So when it is used you got to change keys with the mode knob every time you play a song in a different key or what? I am not really understanding how to use this, I dont think so.. Can you post up a little more about this?
Cool video. Thanks.
Without going into technical details of what the "chorus" modulation sound is, yes.
Dude, awesome video.... help me a lot..:D
Wow the knob moves by itself like magic! 😮😮😮
It's a miracle of modern video editing technology!
+NICHOLAS GREENWOOD which ps difference 6 for PS5 ??? which is better? both do the same things? hugs
@penguinrock im using the vox valvtronix 15, so it does hav effects, but im not sure how to put it in front of the effects.
don't suppose you got a tutorial on the boss rc 3 out there somewhere ??
@keebaeklim
Hmm... Does your amp have an effects loop? Put it in the loop and your amp's disortion will be "in front" of the pedal. That's how the pedals are wired in this video.
quick question,
1) if i have a tube screamer as an amp boost, do u put this before ts or after? Or do u place it in the fx loop?
2) if I bypass this pedal, but with output A to amp A, output B to amp B, will this pedal act as a signal splitter?
thx mann, really straight forward video.
Great video Nick - thank you! Has Boss fixed the "warble" when going 1 octave up on the PS-6? It has been 10 years since your video, so I am hoping so ... If not, I am grabbling a PS-6 AND a PS-5 because the latter's 1 octave up sound is absolutely killer!!!
Thank you for the comment. I no longer own either of these pedals, sorry. But I don't think Boss has changed anything on the PS-6. Try them both and see what works best for your rig!
Great Review...