Hi everybody my name's Tris I'm the lead
vocalist and guitarist in Dethonator. So
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talking about the TC Electronic
Quintessence Harmonizer pedal this is a
video that I shot last week, before we
get into it I just wanted to say that
this isn't sponsored by TC electronics
or anybody else, it's just for fun
really just thought we share with you
some knowledge about the pedal give a
bit of metal demonstration so if you've
got any thoughts please leave them in
the comment section below so yeah hope
you enjoy it so today we're going to be
talking about harmonizer pedals or
specifically one harmoniser pedal that is
the TC Electronic Quintessence
Harmonizer I only recently got this, erm... why 
did I get it? I was just interested to see
what the possibilities were with the
harmonizer pedal in terms of doing some
dual leads stuff for you know making
the solos pop a little bit more so when
I ordered it it came in this rather
nifty box and this isn't an unboxing but
there you go you can see that was the
box, TC Electronic Quintessence, I think I'm
saying that right... Quintessence...
Quintessence? And this is the beast, there
she is so as you can see you've got
various different controls you've got
the mix knob there which controls
essentially it controls the level of the
duplicate guitar that's playing the harmony so you're playing and then if
you would have it totally dry that would
just be your clean signal if you had
it totally wet that would be the
harmonized signal by itself so generally
you pretty much want this in the middle.
One thing I have found is that it does
make the output seem to jump out a
little bit louder when you've got it
when you're using the pedal when you
engage it, which can almost then make the
the other leave passages you're doing without
the pedal engaged almost seem a little
bit quieter so I haven't quite figured out a
way around that yet, I did try putting
it through the effects loop on the back
of the amp and then running it about
minus 10 decibels, didn't seem to make a
huge amount of difference so what I've
been doing for now is just reducing the
mix level slightly so it's slightly
leaning more towards dry than it is wet
obviously you can pick your key this
guitar is half a tone, a semitone
down so it's in e-flat (Eb)
we're in D and then you can pick sharp
or neutral so we're in D sharp if you
know your music theory it helps a little
bit I used to know music theory pretty
well it's up there somewhere
some of it's just gone but and then you
pick a scale so for the most part we're
gonna be in Aeolian minor scale there
because it's h eavy metal but it's not just a
metal pedal you can obviously do
anything with this really so you've got
your Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian
you know... all of that you can see they're
all listed up there so and then of
course you pick your harmony so what
we've got here is set two thirds usually
in heavy metal not all the time
obviously but usually it's a third
that's in play you know just try to play
'The Trooper' engage that and you'll see
what I mean but you've also got various
other intervals you can see there and
then there's the toneprint can you see
where it says TP 1, TP 2, TP 3? That is if
you actually plug this into a computer, it came with a USB, it's own USB cable
you plug into your phone, plug it into a
computer
and then you can actually design your
own intervals so I haven't fully
understood yet because I'm be honest I
couldn't get it to work but that's
probably if it says more about me than
it does the pedal but if some reason you
couldn't see my computer couldn't see
the device but I've seen other people
use it successfully so I need to play
around with that more I see if I can get
it working but amazing if you can
actually create your own, tell the pedal
exactly program it to do exactly what
you want on a preset patch. So it's got a
fairly robust little stomper on it which
you want obviously cuz you're gonna be
you know stomping on it on stage and
this pretty generally feels a pretty
robust pedal you know it feels like it
could take your weight not like some
pedals that feel, I don't know maybe it's
just me, but I feel like I'm gonna
break them. It's also got this curious
feature where it's actually sensitive so
if you press harder it actually bends
the pitch up a semitone I'm not gonna I
don't think I'm gonna use that but
pretty cool they can do that I guess you
can also have it set to latch or moment
essentially so if you latch it's
essentially bypass on or off, if you have
it set to moment what it is it will only
engage when you press the pedal and then
when you release it will disengage I
think I've got personally enough to be
going on with between switching between
different channels and stuff and then
working the mic as well so I don't think
I'm gonna be using that but could be
quite handy if you just wanted a quick
you know and then take you foot off so
yeah we're gonna be getting into this a
little bit more now. So, there is the
pedal board and you can see there is a TC
Electronic Quintessence in there on the
end. I could say normally if you're running
it through a proper amp, proper rig, I
would have it on its own channel on the
effects loop and then my distortion
tonight is provided by
the Metal Planet by Rocktron. I've had this
pedal for years just literally just use
it with practice amps, got this old Laney
practice amp, which God knows how old
that is, it's probably older than me but
that is providing the gain so yeah fair
play, it's good for the bedroom. Actually
still got the box to that, funnily enough,
so if anyone knows if anyone actually
out there owns one of these and then
tell me I've never met anyone who's
heard of a Rocktron, you know the
Metal Planet. Anyway, getting sidetracked, 
so yeah I'm going to set up and then
we're going to just play around with
this pedal a bit
you can also do that little nifty thing
I was talking about where you
press harder and it shifts it so listen out for that
maybe that'll be better if I actually showed you the
foot action
That's the completely wet signal
okay so there you have it the
Quintessence Harmonizer. I've not used
any other Harmonizers really so maybe my
opinion is a little bit moot or biased
but I think it is done exactly what I
wanted it to do
I think there's still more features to
explore about it and it seems to track
what you're doing really well so it
doesn't matter how fast you're playing
the pedal always seems to keep up and it
does sound to me as close as I can
imagine to two guitars playing tightly
together, obviously, you know, you're never
going to get that expression of a human
element that comes when you've got two
actual players but in terms of just
harmonising the lead part or passage
you want to play I think this does a
pretty awesome job so it's a thumbs up from me
and we'll have a look next time of doing
some other bits of gear I'm desperate to
show you my Laney Ironheart amp at some
point. I know other people have done run
downs on the Ironheart but I feel like
it takes a while to get to grips with
the Ironheart so we can explore that in
more detail next time you know once you
understand the amp you can kind of
unlock it a bit better so yeah thanks
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