Bonsoir!
I have had the pleasure of playing my new Ravish Sitar for four days now and wish to say that this is an extremely sophisticated piece of equipment! With some wonderful sounds already dialled in and more to come when programming starts. (RTM time?)
Here are a few initial thoughts about EHX’s wonderful gift to us aficionados and which I muttered to myself during my recent musical trip on the RS:
1) Get two amps – one for the Main Output (Lead Voice) and one for the Sympathetic Output
(Drone)…yes, there are two dedicated outputs on the RS.
2) Get three amps – two for a Stereo Memory Man (Main Output) and one for the Sympathetic Output.
3) Get four amps – two for one Stereo Memory Man (Main Output) and two for a second Stereo
Memory Man (Sympathetic Output. Now life is getting interesting.
4) Watch the mids on the amp(s)’ EQs since the Ravish can come up with sudden tonal surprises.
5) Learn to play the Ravish with your guitar since guitar dynamics, volume and tone settings can
change the sound scape of the Ravish dramatically without having to tweak a single nob on the
pedal itself. (This is true)
6) Use an expression pedal mainly for the beautifully consistent Drone Mode.
7) Use an expression pedal just every now and then on the Pitch Mode.
Buy two expression pedals.
9) Remember which key is selected in the Key Mode. Très sensible!
10) Read The Manual
11) The Holy Stain is a good companion to the Ravish Sitar.
12) The Stereo Memory Man is a good companion to the Holy Stain and to the Ravish Sitar. Be warned!
Sounds can reach cosmic proportions!

I played an SG with Seymour Duncan Classic Humbuckers and then a Fender Roadworn Telecaster with Texas Special PUs into a Vox. The SG had a set of 11s, the Telecaster a set of 10s. The Telecaster worked the best for me although the SG triggered some impressive tonal patterns (see 4). This is an exciting and highly inspirational piece of Electro-Harmonix magic! My Ravish Sitar has already featured in a couple of TDG’s numbers and worked like a dream when we did some live recording, crisp, clear sounds with no buzz or interference whatsoever, even when it was coupled with the Holy Stain in Dirt Mode. Straight chords are no issue, sound right on, strange chords produce a wide and varied musical universe, exotic chords produce microtonal response. And, last but not least, the memory storage works easily and smoothly with the option to return to the default factory presets when you get lost in waves of microtonal harmonics and have forgotten the way back to your original musical intention (see 1 to 12).

To sum this all up …. The Ravish Sitar is a classic.