Do you have a track that desperately needs a sitar? Session sitarists are not easy to find, and with its characteristic harmonic and dynamic slipperiness, the sitar is a tough instrument to emulate with a guitar pedal. Thankfully, there’s the electro-harmonix Ravish Sitar, which distills the essence of the sitar into a compact enclosure, serving up a polyphonic lead voice and tunable sympathetic string drones that dynamically react to your playing. You can create your own custom scales for the sympathetic strings as well as set decay time for the lead voice. Two expression-pedal inputs let you simultaneously bend the pitch of the lead voice and control the volume of the sympathetic strings. Tweak the Ravish Sitar’s powerful controls to conjure new organic instruments. With the electro-harmonix Ravish Sitar in your sonic palette, you might even start calling yourself “Mahavishnu.”
