The King of Gear introduces another cool somewhat glitchy wobbly pitch-shifter pedal - the Pitch Magpie

I’ve followed tkog / The King of Gear for many years now - and have had the Mini Glitch in the reference collection for quite a while - a really cool and relatively simple but impactful Micro-Sampler. I believe that first materialised properly in 2018 - where I’m aware there were a few earlier sort of prototype versions before then - while I think the final design occurred some time in and around 2018.

Around a year later, tkog then introduced its Oxford Drive - which I understand is an evolved take on the Marshall ShredMaster. That’s been on my radar for a while - and I’ve considered it a few times for the collection, but not yet pulled the trigger. The fact that the Sinvertek N5 MGAT-1 and MGAT-1-GE are so stellar - means that most every other Marshall style Distortion kind of pales in comparison.

And finally - and with quite a gap on the release schedule - we now have another very obviously tkog device - the Pitch Magpie - which offers lots of versatility around polyphonic pitch-shifting - courtesy of 4 control knobs, and 3 Modes of playback.

I’m always fascinated by which devices end up in the reference collection and which don’t - it’s a mixture of timing, opportunism, and needs must really. I often acquire a number of pedals when I focus on a particular topic area - with a view to doing an overview of that genre - and so I tend to end up with a few more varieties than I would otherwise normally have need of! Once in the reference collection though - the pedal stays in the collection!

I really like each pedal in this trifecta - and depending on pricing and availability, and prevailing priorities of course - I might very well end up with all 3 eventually. While I’m largely very mood- and thematically driven - so in terms of what happens and when has both a structured approach - and some happenstance about it.

All 3 pedals are still in production - but produced in relatively small batches, so not always available, and they often tend to get snapped up pretty quickly in any case.

All 3 are priced at $200 - and the Mini Glitch, Oxford Drive and Pitch Magpie are available from the tkog webstore - when in stock obviously!

It will be interesting to see if and when I pick up the remaining two here!

Here follow the further details on each pedal :