Electro-Harmonix Hog Guitar Synthesizer

It's a really good pedal,but the painting is so fragile that with only moving the faders it scrathes the painting.Also,the most important thing that really is bad from this pedal,is that when you put all the faders down(at zero)there's a little bit of sound from the guitar.That is very annoying when playing with only the low octaves,'cause you could also hear(low but you can hear it )the normal guitar.And also when you use the attack,first you hear the normal guitar and after the attack.

Very good sounds,but there are the problems I explain above.

I love this pedal,and I don't understand why electro-harmonix people have made this two mistakes(painting and not zero sound with all voices-faders down).

I've sent them an email and they haven't answer me.A friend of mine sentthem an email about the painting,and they answer:yes ,we know that the painting is so fragile...

I play many guitar synths(gr-100,gr-300,gr-500,gr-50,gr-700,korg x-911,korg z3,also the Pog,the Microsynth and the Hog from electro-harmonix).I don't understand why electro-harmonix doesn't give me a solution about this pedal...Hope they realize about this two things going wrong with this pedal,and they make them well in the future.

Straight out the box this thing is completely overwhelming; you can fiddle with it in confusion for hours trying to find the sweet spots. However, if you can get your head round all the parameters its actually not as complex as it first seems, and once you find the sounds in your head it is amazing.
I'd say the optional foot contoller for storing presets and an expression pedal for controlling parameters etc. are absolutely essential, otherwise you simply will not be getting the most out the unit. A lot to ask after paying so much already i know, but definitely worth it.

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I'm pretty fussy about pedal noise, and although this pedal isn't silent when off its pretty close.
The actual sounds this unit creates are amazing; church organ, hammond, bass synth riffs, washing soundscapes, thick overdrive, chirping birds etc etc etc etc. Personal favourite is the "Freeze Gliss" expression mode, which holds the chord you've just played and makes it shimmer while you play over the top.

Who knows? It looks pretty sturdy, but only time will tell. Only thing I can picture going wrong quickly is the momentary expression switch if you don't use an external expression pedal.

Never had to deal with EHX direct, but the company Hotrox UK I ordered this pedal and others from are absolute legends to deal with. Cheers guys!

I like to play anything that sounds a bit odd, and this pedal definitely fits the bill. Although its never going to be suitable for every song, when you bring it out its bound to wow. If it broke or was nicked then I'd have to replace it ASAP, as soon as I could save up the pretty ridiculous price all over again.

This thing is full of FUN sounds! It's about 4 to 6 times as cool as the POG! If you've never played with a pitch shifter then it will look weird to you, but if you know about pitch shifters and love to make insain noices then you'll love it!

Yeah, it sounds awsome! Just like the POG, it's sound quality is the best! I've had, the original Digitech Pitch shifter, and I know every one is all crazy about it, but, for real... the HOG totally smokes it! This is the best I've ever heard! It's crazy expensive, but what do you really want? You're going to get bumbed out if you buy some thing else, like the New Digitech Wammy, cuz that thing is totally a peice of crap. I bought two of those and out of the box one was totally broken! The HOG is SH*T! Spend the Money, you WILL Dig it!

Well it's EH, so who knows. I always asome that it's going to brake in the first year with them. That's Right EH, You need to step it up a little when it comes to quality control and longevity! I think that it comes with a One Year warrenty, but I really think that they should have given us a 5 year warrenty. When You spend big money you should be confident that it wont break on you. It is in a new box, that look a lot better then the older (Memory Man / Poly Chorus) boxes. I think that it will last a lot longer then most of the other effects. EH is usually pretty good about fixing their effect. Talk to me in a year and I'll give you a real review of it's reliabity.

EH is allways pretty good about customer support. They close at 5pm East coast time so that mean that they're closed by 2pm on the West coast where I am. So my only complaint would be that they stay open a little later to help out people on the more Westernly side of the country later in the day.

Is it the best thing I've ever used for pitch shifting? F*ck Yeah it is! It's great! I cant wait to try it on all of my Casios! I've owned or used a crap load of pitch shifters, and this is great! They've up graded every thing that I could of wanted to have changed on the POG, and thrown in a bunch of other stuff that makes it even better. If you have a studio and want to impress people record with you, buy this! You will totally convince people that you know what you're doing!

Extremely easy to use, it's either on or it's not. There is one big knob on it that does not seem to make a noticeable difference in tone.

I am the guitarist in a two-person band, and I use a two-amp set-up so that my guitar has both a bass and treble amp setting. Therefore, one of my amps uses bass cab speakers and the amp is set for bass! The Hog's Foot is essential for my set-up, because the bass boost basically transofrms my guitar signal into a bass guitar signal. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what else one would use this pedal for, the bass boost is so overwhelming, it literally cuts almost all treble in the signal. The literature of the day when this pedal came out (late 70s-early 80s) says that it is for the "delta blues" sound; not at all true. But for bass, or guitar, it gives you that real John Wetton bass sound without a fuzz box. And you can't really use a fuzz box with it, the Hog's Foot is a very pushy pedal that really takes over your instrument's sound.

Totally dependable, but also dependable to always have A LOT of hum, no matter how low the setting.

Maybe E-H will re-issue it, they've re-issued a bunch of stuff!

For me, it's indispensible.