Pedal Steel Effect by Morphing Harmonies?

  • So I love pedal steel and I just saw an awesome demo of a TC Electronics Quintessence (here’s the demo) that stacks a 3rd and 5th on top of a single note and when you press the foot switch it raises the 3rd and 5th up a scale degree to a 4th and a 6th. It really does sound like a pedal steel and now that I have the Kemper I figured I could use the morph along with the Harmony effect to achieve this sound. And it's super super close, but it's not there yet so that brings me here.


    The thing that makes the tc pedal sound so good is that the notes glide or bend up and down. I thought that connecting an expression pedal may magically solve the problem but I realized that morphing between the two is only a binary action. So I was wondering if anybody has a way to make the notes glide?


    I know there are other workarounds like using the pedal pitch effect, getting better at guitar, or I can stop listening to country but again my end goal is for my heel position to be a 1 3 5 triad that raises to a 1 4 6 triad with glide using an expression pedal just like the TC Electronics Quintessence.

  • That does sound pretty cool. I can't think of a way to do exactly that with the Kemper. If it were me I'd get the pedal, like I did with the Freqout (which I've now bonded with).

  • You can use Pedal Pitch to do it. It has been ten years, so I don't remember the intervals I used. But, if you want the harmonies to change from +3,+5 to +4, +6 you can edit the effects. You can find the Rig by searching for "paults" on the Rig Exchange.


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  • Thanks for the reply cause it definitely helps me clarify what I’m looking for. I tried using this setup a couple times and honestly it does the trick but the thing that’s missing (at least in my opinion) is when you switch between the the 1 3 5 and the 1 4 6 it is a very drastic shift instead of a smooth glide between notes like you hear in the TC pedal. So I guess that’s what I’m looking for: A setting to adjust the glide between notes when using the morph mode to change harmonies.