A curio

Through a convoluted web of trades and exchanges, the EHX Ravish Sitar briefly came into my life. I never had the proper theoretical grounding to tackle the nuances of its scale-based modes; I just wanted the hypnotic buzz that is so often associated with the sitar. Curiously, I don't think I ever even used this pedal on a guitar. Instead, I applied onto a bass once and onto a synth numerous times. Using both of the unit's outputs, I I rarely even used the Main sitar voice. It was usually kinda dopey. Instead, I milked every juicy, resonant drone out of the Sympathetic output. I then layered effects on top of that one (Mel9, reverb, delay) for some out-of-this-world ambience. Misusing equipment is always a fun way of getting unique sounds.

Despite the textures I could coax out of this pedal, I felt like I wasn't really getting too much from it. After a few months, I said goodbye to this fella as I sank the profits into a slush funds that yielded a Moog. The verdict? Unless you're a muso steeped in theory, this curiosity won't intuitively lead to particularly desirable tones. As such, you'll have to be extra clever as you forge your own unforeseen sounds.

novelty pedal

hard to get a good sound out of it. better off buying an actual sitar, its less expensive too

Try it before buy it or you'll regret it.

This is my main clean sound, all in one box. I was searching for a pitch modulating sound with modulations and in this box you have it all. You can control the pitch, how the strings resonate, how they are balanced and how much modulation do you need. It's a really COMPLEX pedal with tones of options and you need to be really careful before you buy it because it's not for everyone and you can be easy bored after you tried once. For me it's gold cause I was searching for that sound using a pitch shifter and a chorus withouth really having it. This box is ages forward us, 9 presets, 3 modulations that interacts each others, two spots for expression pedals to control pitch and freeze chords.

Incredibly deep synth platform

The only reason this doesn't get 5 stars is the $250 price tag. The variety of sounds you can create with this seemingly limited pedal is fantastic. Just finding new ways to blend the dry, lead, and sympathetic signals is variety enough, but the tone controls, key changing, modulation, decay, scale input (!!), and TWO expression inputs make it one of the most dense beasts I've encountered that doesn't say "Strymon" on it. If you're into experimenting, this is definitely on your list.

As to my one gripe, I really hope they make a mini/nano version of this eventually as they did with the POG. That would be a barrel of fun.

great Sitar sounding pedal

I used this pedal on the cover of The Rolling Stones "Paint It, Black". great pedal if you want a sitar but can't afford Danelectro's 6 string electric Baby Sitar or a real one. I Recommend.

Does what you'd think

You can get wild sitar sounds out of it, but also atonal not so musical sounds if you are not careful. Takes some experimenting. Turn the lights down low and trip out.

what a lifesaver

Dont need to try to find the holy grail of sitar guitars cort anymore, this puppy does it all! you can sound like ravi shankar with a marshall tone!