Boss PS-6 Harmonist (Demo) 

I got drunk last night and ordered this pedal. Must have been the Scorpions I was listening to. I regret nothing after watching this video.

one of the best youtube tutorials I've seen. Pro quality. You need to send it to Boss Corp and ask for a job doing nothing but youtube tutorials for their effects. I bet most of those 157k hits would agree. Straight to the task and completed. No dicking with music, the camera and almost no unnecessary talking(only facts belong in the quality of this tutorial, no opinions)

It's 2023 and I just got value from this video. Thank you, Nick.

Dude, your selling yourself short. All the demo riffs you played were crisp, clean, in tune, and on tempo. Sounds pretty fucking good to me!

Thanks for great detail and comparison, seriously considering purchasing one myself. This is the first of your Demo's I have watched. I will definitely watch all the rest.

Great formatting on the video. I always wondered what exactly the PS-6 could do, and this video makes it very clear.

I love it when you find EXACTLY the right youtube vid that you want ...on the first try. Great demo dude!! And that little closing jam thingy at 7:50 is just plain cool.

Great demo, you took a relatively complex pedal and made it simpler and explained functionality well👍🏼 you’re good at this, thanks dude.

Great Demo, Boss, owes you money.

Excellent video Nicholas, thanks for posting, much appreciated. You are very talented!

Thank you so much for sharing with us, and the excellent reviews you do. Honest, intelligent reviews as always, keep up the good work!

I don't have a video for the PS-3, and have been really quiet on making any new videos these past couple of years. I simply stopped buying guitar gear (I now have what I consider my dream rig) and have been nerding out in the cycling world. I'm also returning to school. No promises on making any new videos. Thanks for the support, though.

Gotta use them on stereo, speperates it like two guitars panned hard left and hard right. Sounds so good

Great demo dude! And you're playing is totally fine.

Your playing is good man, this demo was awesome thank you

This is a great video, man. Thanks so much for your work. Subscribed!

Nicholas, This was very helpful. Thank you for making this video. I was looking for a PS5 and did not know the PS6 replaced it.

Amazing demo, Nick; completely informative! Thank you!

Great demo. Very informative and straight forward.

great demo.ive always wanted to try one of these pedals.this was highly informative.thanks for sharing

Very nice video. Straightforward, answers most questions. Thanks for posting

One of the BEST presentations on youtube..........MORE!!!!!

Great thanks, helped my shopping list a lot, had a few pedals in my sights but gonna go with either of the Boss pedals now x

I had a head injury and suffered alot of memory loss. I actually forgot almost 30 years of guitar playing experience and lost my technique, style, everything. Before I got hurt I sat in on alot of local bands recording and had alot of playing experience with different bands in the 80's. I could go from Poison to Morbid Angel and I had my own style of metal blues. It's taken me the past couple of years to get to where I remember almost 90% of what I knew. This video brought back a bunch of memories. By the mid 90's I had mapped out my own pedal chain based on all the pedals I had tried out in Guitar Centers. The Harmonist pedal was one of them I wanted most. I have some of my gear left and after I watched this video I went out to my garage and rebuilt my pedal chain in the same order and ran it into the half stack I've had for over 30 years and plugged in my new Strat and dialed my pedals in. Damn good to be able to remember all this. Until now I've been playing unplugged and through a modeling amp. Thank you for the video. You helped me with alot more than your demo.

Cool. A very well organized demo. Your commentary on what you felt was useful/unnecessary, etc. was honest and straight forth. Thank you.

dude thanks for the review, you made the choice between these two a lot easier for me! cheers

I love your no nonsense review, excellent demo, your playing is fine man. 😎 [ I immediately liked and subscribed]

Terrific vid. Thanks so much. The one thing I didn't really hear was your take on the PS-6's octave up setting compared to the PS-5's octave up (in harmony mode, which I loved).

doing research for the band I'm leading for show, I appreciate this video allot.

well made and narrative, very easy on the mind to watch, clarifies a lot, well done, H6UK

Great demo brother! Nicely maps out the various features and sounds. :)

Fantastic review! Very informative and to the point, thank you.

This was incredibly helpful for me. thank you!

Great tutorial I actually understood it, and the speed was perfect.

Best demo...made lots of sense and was very useful...thanks!

Thanks for a cool review man! Enlightening and relevant

good demo. Thanks. This cleared up a lot of questions

Thanks for posting this! I've been having a hard time deciding which phase shifter to purchased. PS-6 will probably work for me. :-)

Thank you. It made more sense to simply run through the same scale multiple times to show off the pedal's chops.

Great work here man, very educational.

dude this is by far the best demo ever about the PS-6 haha thanx a lot (Y)

Thanks for sharing your insight man. Don't be down on your playing, you sound great. Have fun with it :)

Thanks for the informative vid sir.....getting one of these shortly.

You get straight to the point! Loved it!

Thank you for making the video....I appreciate it very much !!!

Remarkably good demo. Thanks

Great review! Thanks!

Melhor review que ja vi !!!

I would never have thought you were a "bad" player bro. haha Good video. Thanks!

Nice demo. Very informative.

Freaking sweet idea!! Love your thinking!

Thanks for the video. Very informative.

This was a big help. Thanks.

such a great video

Nic - you did a great job with the Demo , I can't believe somene would be upset over the pronunciation of the pedal

This is awesome. We just kicked out our other guitar player and all he really did was harmony parts over the riffs. really added to our music. Ive been looking around and i think one or two of these might just be what i need. hahaha great review man! really helpful and insightful.

Superb demo

great demo of each setting. :-)

great demo man

Very helpful video. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, man. I promise I won't be so self-deprecating when (or rather, if) I make videos again.

nice job, clear and concise thanks a lot

Really great, thank you so much.

Nice demo thank you

@addy121 One of the better compliments I've received. Thank you. I'm actually very comfortable with my current skill level (playing for 11 years). I've recorded and played shows; it's just the "turn on the camera and go" thing I'm self-conscious about. I'm not interested in the "Ultimate Guitarmageddon Video Showdown" that's always going on.

$125 @ Guitar Center. Thx for the great demonstration!

excellent demo, showed all i wanted to know. still im keeping my ps-5, though

Extremely thorough,yet concise, helpful demo :) Huge thanks & much Respect ~*

The Fryette head is the Pittbull 100CL. 100-watt EL34 quad set, switchable down to 50 watts. Two channels each with multiple gain-stacking modes, and a graphic EQ. The Orange cab is just a regular PPC412, not the HP version. Amazing sound.

this is a great video

crazy pedal! nice video

Great review - thanks! :)

Wow the knob moves by itself like magic! 😮😮😮

great video,thanks!

Great video presentation!! Thank you! BTW, do both pedals handle polyphony shifting with ease just as the micro pog? i think i've seen a PS-6 vid actually doing better than micro pog... Also, i'm building a flight case pedal board, what's your advise, shall i have a very thick foam pressing against the pedals, on the lid part? Thanks again!

Great Review...

Cool video. Thanks.

Dude, awesome video.... help me a lot..:D

No need to excuse your playing. You did a GREAT demo and it is unnecessary to show off any skills to do so. Thanks for sharing!

dude this is GOOD! thnks!

You play fine dude. Good demo and I dig the pedal. I bought boss octave pedal instead, but perhaps there's room for this at some stage.

Great comparison/review. I own the PS-6 but I was wondering about the differences between the two and this spelled it out perfectly. I like the octave down pitch shift but my little Mustang I amp doesn't handle frequencies that low so it sounds bad. Can't wait to play with it some more once I get a larger amp. Cheers!

Thanks for the info! How about overall tracking? Are they comparable or is one clearly better than the other?

Good and helpful

I just found out that my old PS5 (along with a ton of other old pedals) were stolen and I was soooo bummed because I knew they didn’t make it anymore! But now I guess I can get a 6 since it does seem nicer.. have to start saving for that now!

thank you

Ps5 was a tone killer for sure.

Without going into technical details of what the "chorus" modulation sound is, yes.

The best way too find great original sounds as a musician is too experiment. Never be afraid to experiment! :)

I have both pedals too. Thanks for explaining things out. I haven't realized all the differences. :) What's your opinion on Digitech's Harmony Man?

You are cool! Thank you!

@jacobkay Precisely what I'm going for. Thank you for the compliment.

That was a pretty sweet top-floor studio apartment I had in Tempe, Arizona. Now I'm in Seattle and pay over $100 a month more for a room that's about a quarter of the size of the old place. Not gonna lie, it's a major reason why I haven't been posting more videos lately. Bum deal, but I'm happy in the doom and gloom of the Northwest.

I know it's been many years since you made this video, but I would have loved to see the Super Shifter handle, say, runs in Cm using the 3rds setting, then the Harmonist doing the same key/interval. A few A/B comparisons like that would be really helpful. IMO, harmonisation in-key is the reason these pedals exist, and the other features are just gimmicks (some useful, some not) to make them seem worth the expense.

@penguinrock that was quick! Thanks for writing back so soon. As far as beating myself up, i've already done that and accepted the fact i cant play like them lol. But I think i figured it out, i need to put the harmonist b4 the distortion. But i use my amp distortion, but i switched the order of my overdrive and it sounds a bit smoother

Sounds like Thin Lizzy, damn!

Oh my. I must have this. Now.

The fact that your putting yourself out there on RU-vid for all to hear is something that many, including myself, find difficult. I once tried to demo a new pedal and was CRUSHED by the comments. No bullshit, I was thinking "man, do I sound that bad?" And the truth of the matter was no, I was just fine. There are thousands of trolls just waiting to pounce on you. Now, I just disable the comments and lay it out there for all to see. Like it or not, I don't care!

@squiresuzuki I must have been thinking in terms of semi-tones (or number of frets) when I put it in there. I'm semi-embarrassed at the flub. Thank you for pointing it out.

great video, not sure if the answer to my question is somewhere in the comments but, what model Fryette head is that? also, is that Orange cab the 4x12HP?