A unique guitar pedal that generates harmonies based on your chord progression.

The DigiTech HM2 HarmonyMan features 4 different types of pitch shifting depending on which of the 42 different voices you select. Combine up to 2 distinct voices in any combination to accompany the input signal: a 3rd or 5th above or below, an octave up, 2 octaves below, 24 semitones and 4 detune variations. Simply play the songs you know and love, and when the spotlight cues your solo, hit the harmony footswitch to get amazing multipart guitar harmonies!

Following up on the success and rave reviews of their Vocalist products, DigiTech decided to make an effects pedal with the same cool features but specifically designed for guitarists. With exclusive musIQ technology DigiTech combined the lightning-fast, natural sounding harmony generation made famous by the Vocalist pedals, and made it meet the demands of professional guitarists everywhere.

SHIFTING MODES:
Triad Center Shifting Mode
Create musically correct harmonies based around your favorite chordal structure whether soloing a riff in a specific key or using the sidechain input for chord recognition.
Scalic Shifting Mode
Creates musically correct harmonies with various shifting depending on the harmony key.
Fixed (chromatic) Shifting Mode
Applies fixed harmony intervals to all notes with the fixed number of semitones selected.
Detune Shifting Mode
Get a thick overall sound applying a small fixed amount of pitch shifting to the lead guitar voice ranging from 5 cents to 30 cents in both up and down directions simultaneously.

HARMONY KEY DISPLAY Indicates the key and scale that will be used for harmony note generation. When the musIQ button is enabled, these multicolored LED's show the key status as you play chord changes.
TUNER DISPLAY Seven LED's and the Voice 1 display help you accurately tune your guitar.
musIQ BUTTON Automatically recognizes the correct key and scale based on the chord progressions you play. Produces accurate harmonies every time!
VOICE DISPLAYS Shows the active harmony voicings. When tuner is enabled, left display shows the current note being tuned.
VOICE KNOBS Select the voicing for each harmony voice.
HARMONY ON/OFF FOOTSWITCH Engage harmonies hands-free. Also, can be held down to engage the guitar tuner.
STORE BUTTON Store your four favorite settings to memory for instant recall access.
MIX KNOB Controls the mix between the lead guitar and the harmony, where full left gives just the lead guitar and full right gives just the harmony.
MIX KNOB Controls the mix between the lead guitar and the harmony, where full left gives just the lead guitar and full right gives just the harmony.
MEMORY SELECT FOOTSWITCH Easily cycle through your four custom presets. Press and hold this footswitch and strum a chord to set the key and scale - hands free!
DISTORTION SEND/RETURN This loop lets you place a distortion stompbox before the harmony effect without affecting chord recognition of the Clean Input signal.
GUITAR CLEAN INPUT Connect your unprocessed guitar here for chord recognition.
MAIN OUTPUTS Dual outputs let you connect to one or two amps. Stereo setups give you panned harmonies that really fill up the room.
SIDECHAIN INPUT/THRU The sidechain input/thru lets a second (rhythm) guitar be the chord recognition source while the lead guitar signal is shifted to produce harmonies perfect for bands with both a lead and rhythm guitar player.

DigiTech HM2 HarmonyMan Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Effects Pedal Features:

• Cutting edge pitch detection engine designed specifically for guitar delivers fast accurate shifting
• 3 part guitar harmony without programming
• Intelligent harmony voicings, fixed chromatic voicings, and detune voice settings
• Edit, store and recall 4 memory presets.
• Sidechain connection lets you solo while your rhythm guitarist provides the recognition source
• Built-in guitar tuner
• Pre-harmony Distortion loop

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DigiTech HM2 HarmonyMan Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Effects Pedal Specifications:

• Unit Dimensions: 9.75" x 7.9" x 3.4"
• Unit Weight: 4 lbs.
• Power Supply: 9VAC 1300mA
• PS0913B-120 Included
• Inputs: 1/4" Unbalanced
• Outputs: 1/4" Unbalanced
• Sidechain: Ground Lift Switch
• SKU/UPC: HM2/691991201356

DigiTech HM2 HarmonyMan Intelligent Pitch Shifter Guitar Effects Pedal

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AWSOME!!

Posted by Anonymous Musician from Florida on Sep 17, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock

It is so nice to play harmonies on the fly. This thing does all the figuring out for you. It allows you to be spontaneous with some seriously lush sounds. Super Cool!!!

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The HM2 is worth the investment

Posted by Rob from Boston on Apr 26, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

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Reviewer's Play Style: everything

The HM2 was a little too much at first. But after sitting down for an hour an reading what each setting does I was able to emulate Brian May and the Allman Brothers to a very impressive degree, If you are loking to add some serious high end sound to your solos... this is what you need!

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HarmonyMan

Posted by James Lemelin from Sacramento on Apr 12, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Professional

Reviewer's Play Style: All Styles

I have played guitar for over 40 years. I have used effects since the days of the Jordon "Boss Tone" fuzz box. I use two different rigs of effects; Boss and Line6. This pedal is far and away one of the best pedals ever developed or manufactured. It is extremely user friendly and sounds great. Using the MusicIQ function the pedal knows the best key even when I don’t. I can’t say enough about how good this pedal is. Without Slamming other Harmony pedals, I can only say I have tried them all and THIS IS THE BEST. I get nothing but raves from other players and listeners during my performances.

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Excellent for the price

Posted by Dmann from Calgary, Canada on Dec 17, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician for 20+ years

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Metal, Blues

I play metal mostly, and have a rack mounted rig- in a nutshell consists of; -ADA MP-2 Pre-amp -T.C electronics G-Major I tried a few stompbox dist pedals as instructed in manual, and just couldn't get it work/sound well with my rig placing the HM2 in front of my preamp or using my amps send/ret. I noticed when using the dist send/ret of the HM2, that signal is always active, So I tried my pre-amp through the HM2's dist send/ret, my guitar into the clean in of the HM2, stereo out to my G-Major from the HM2. Very impressive. Clear and precise harmonies even at max gain.

Negatives; -no volume control at all -no panning options -no voice delay -can only store 4 settings -no MIDI Still for a stompbox, not an rack unit, the price right.

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Brian May fan

Posted by old school guitarist wannabe from Louisville, Ky on Sep 19, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: hobbyist, self taught,

Reviewer's Play Style: 70s rock , acoustic Jim Croce, America et...

Bought this harmonyman last week. First impressions, it's built well. Rather small, has a built in tuner, the key finder is cool. I have the Brian May pedal and the harmonyman's sound beats that. I am self taught, acoustic mostly, but play alot of electric riffs from the 70's rock era. Only I play by ear, so no technical training, and it seems with this pedal you do have to know your scales, which was a bummer for me! I have a vox ad30vt amp set on the clean setting, with a Brian May guitar. Yeah I'm a big BM fan, that's why I bought this! I've only used it a couple times so I might still be missing something. Overall once I get the hang of it I'll enjoy it more!

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