Harmony Pedals? What's out there?

[John_P]

You can get decent results with some of the gear from TC electronic - the g system definitely does reasonable harmonies and iirc the nova system. There are several options from the tc helicon line aimed at vocals - i used to have a voicelive in my rack that did a great job on vocal but would have been fine running guitar through it - i'm sure there are floor/pedal versions.
Alll of these are a bit of an investment in cash, complexity and the amount of gear though and I'm not sure that a simple stombox pedal can get something that you'll be happy with.

[shadyady69]

I have a Boss PS-6. I mainly use it for synthy/organ type swells which it really excels at - but I do like the key selectable harmonies on it (although some are cheese on a stick and sound kak with drive). You might find that you have to keep the manual handy at all times, they've squeezed loads into the pedal and it's a bugger to remember what knob does what. If you get a chance to demo one I guarantee you'll have a "WTF were they thinking" moment with some of the features.

[ICBM]

I have a Boss PS-6. I mainly use it for synthy/organ type swells which it really excels at - but I do like the key selectable harmonies on it (although some are cheese on a stick and sound kak with drive).

That's why the original HR-2 had a 'Detector In' jack - the idea was that you split the signal before your drive pedals (the TU-2 is ideal for doing that), and put the harmoniser after them - so the harmoniser could track the guitar correctly, but applied the effect to the distorted sound. That's the only way to make it work properly and it's baffling that they dropped that feature from the PS-5 and PS-6. Without that, if you put the harmoniser before the dirt it produces that distorted-harmony sound (which is kak), and if you put it after the dirt it tries to track the harmonics in the distortion, which still tends to be kak...