Digitech Mosaic

Looks great but as a twelve string simulator it fails miserably

Fantastic

My cheap 12 string was getting battered when gagging, researched mosiac pedal and took a chance .

Side by side comparison with my takamine acoustic + mosiac and my 12 string showed minor differences. Used all the time now and really pleased with the sound and quality . If you push this pedal too far it can sound a little polyphonic almost keyboard like ( works great when playing golden brown by the stranglers then back off to 2 o’clock and 10 o’clock respectively for a lovely 12 string chime . Highly recommend

Interesting pedal

I got this pedal because I wanted to add the 'illusion' of a 12-string in our gigs. I wasn't going for a specific sound - just wanted to add some more options to my pallet. I haven't had a chance to try it in a live setting or even in rehearsal, so this review is about how it sounds on its own and not within a mix or a band (could be amazing, can't say). From my limited experience so far what I can say is that the extreme settings can sound less-than-stellar. If used with moderation, it gives indeed a good 12-string imitation. For me, this means the Tone setting between 9-10 o'clock and the Level between 13-15 o'clock depending on guitar and amp used (Level all the way clockwise can also sound interesting if going for a very pronounced effect). Overall I am quite happy with the sound, I guess in a live/band setting the small reservations that I have would be hidden in the mix.

In isolation, super fake 12 string effect. Digital artifacts and weird glitching...

I really wanted to love this pedal as the up octave mode on Digitech's Whammy 5 has always impressed me and there isn't another pedal I know of that tries to imitate a 12 string like this. This pedal however has a strange glitchy feel to it, like the pedal is resetting itself while arpeggiating chords. It kind of sounds like it's trying to follow along by continually resetting itself with each new sustained note added to chords. The tone control goes someway to hide this and on monophonic phrases it sounds considerably better. However, for chordal use I felt the sound wasn't as great as I was expecting and could perceive a short delay (only a matter of milliseconds) when playing faster rhythms / strumming. I have heard that in a band mix these issues are considerably reduced and masked but I personally couldn't get past the fakeness of the sound. It's a fairly wide pedal by today's standards and requires a lot of power too. I felt I just couldn't justify a place on my pedal board for it and sent it back.

12-string chime in a pedal

As a huge Byrds & Beatles fan, I bought this to try emulate a 12-string sound on my 6-string electric guitars. Rather than being just an octave pedal, crucially, it leaves the high E and B strings the same note doubled, like an actual 12-string guitar

Pros: it really gets the chime sound, particularly good on semi-hollow guitars to get that Rickenbacker type sound. I don't know how it does it, but somehow it can differentiate between notes as to what should be unison or octave

Cons: For a >100euro pedal, it literally just does one thing: makes your 6-string guitar sound like a 12-string. How about adding a compression option, Digitech?

Better than I expected

The first thing I did when I got this item was to check it really was true bypass. I.E. does it need power in the bypass condition. No it does not. Great. I am fed up with op amps labelled as true bypass which my ears tell me is not. This is true bypass. OK so now to does it do what is says on the packet? Yes. In fact I might go a little further. I am crap at playing 12 string, and I hate the faff of tuning. SO I never bother with a real 12 string of any sort when playing out, I am not good enough to play one out to an audience. Now I get the 12 string sound, with clean chords and don't have to change guitar mid gig. Digitech have nailed it with this one. Someone who popped around to our studio, another musician said he could not tell the difference to his ears. Maybe if we had swapped my Guitar for a tuned uo a 12 string we might, but then all 12 strings sound different. Digitech are happy to warrant this for four years and I like the range of mix and tones it offers. We could hear no glitching, which to be honest we were expecting to need to play around, so one more thing not to have to worry about. The power adaptor was supplied with both European and US troucs for the travellers amongst us, shame there wasn't a UK/HongKong one in there as well! Overall very impressed, and it has already claimed it's place on my very limited board. (Tuner is the only other item, we use the other space for transporting things like leads etc to gigs.

I might even try it on acoustic!

Leave the 12 string at home

Ok it will not replace a 12 string in a recording environment, but saying that, buried in a mix you really can't tell much difference between a 12 string electric and this .... as long as you don't go too high up the neck.

I also use this on acoustic guitar, where a little subtle use goes a long way. I put a TC spark in front to give it a bit more signal to play with and the results are really nice.

Be warned, this like the Digitech Luxe (one of my favourite pedals) are the 'older' current hungry pedals asking for 300mA, so if you have a 500mA power block it is a greedy little thing, which will starve your other pedals.

For playing live, it really can't be beaten, in terms of not having to lug around another guitar.

The main difference with this and an octaver is that the two top string are unison (+- a few cents for a chorusy feel), so you don't get that toy guitar sound on the high strings. Playing too high up the neck it does get a bit weird where very subtle is better.

All in all a very fun pedal and save a lot of hassle.

Highly recommended

Who needs a 12 string guitar?

Great sound from this pedal. I did contemplate about getting a 12 string guitar but now I don't need to. No regrets, totally satisfied with my purchase!

Simple, straight forward, instant 12-string effects.

Solid piece of equipment, sturdy etc. The Mosaic uses polyphonic pitch shifting and intelligent doubling algorithms to create its sound. Very decent sound for a decent price, you obviously wouldn't swap it out for the real thing but does a good job in emulation.

No more endless tuning

I'm retiring my Yamaha APX 12 string now that I have this to play my APX six string through. So less fiddly and such a great sound. In fact all my electric guitars can sound like a 12 now. Great piece of kit.