DWARFCRAFT
DEVICES
WIZARD OF PITCH
REVIEW BY YOEL KREISER
STREET PRICE $225.00
Pitch shifting was always a
fringe subject for me. It is
not an incredibly popular
subject of conversation with
my gearhead buddies, or
high up on the list of GASinducing goodies. However,
ever since listening to
“Come Dancing” off of Jeff
Beck’s 1976 LP, Wired, I was
infatuated with the unique,
artificial, and grinding
overdrive of the octavedown effect (Jeff used a
Mu-Tron Octave Divider on
that track, for the curious).
The Wizard of Pitch, from
Wisconsin-based Dwarfcraft
Devices is a completely
new and unique take on the
pitch shifting effect. Taking
influence from the hallowed
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Uni-Vibe, and incorporating
volume manipulation, pitch
shifting, and vibrato, this
pedal is great for ambient
textures, or slogging and
syrupy chords with layers of
sonic action.
The enclosure of the
Wizard is a warm yellow,
with medieval inspired
graphics. It’s smooth,
light, and a slightly unique
shape. Instead of opting
for the standard Hammond
enclosure, this pedal is
just a bit bigger, and has
sharper corners than the
ones on most standard
pedals, making it feel just
that little bit more special.
It has controls for Pitch,
Mix, Speed and Boost, as
Dwarfcraft Devices Wizard of Pitch
well as two switches labeled
Step and Bender. The Pitch
controls the “tuning” of
the pedal, or how many
cents below or above the
fundamental pitch of your
note is. At the bottom
of the range is down an
octave, and at the top of
the range is up and octave.
At exactly 12 o’clock, there
is no change in pitch, and
it has little to no noticeable
effect. The Mix controls the
amount of dry signal being
fed into the pedal, and the
Speed controls the rate at
which the tone of this pedal
moves (this little box has a
lot of different movements,
and we will get into them
soon). The Boost is, of