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dots · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:07 pm Post subject: octave

mooer makes a bitchin one for well under a hundred bucks street price.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYXcbvw9u4[/youtube]

anybody know of any this versatile and near this price (say within 30%)?
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Bacchus · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: octave

Bacchus · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:45 pm Post subject:

Oh and, um, no. Are these not pretty glitchy, though?
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BearBoy · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:50 pm Post subject:

More dollarz but the EHX POGs are super solid.
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dots · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:54 pm Post subject: Re: octave

dots · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:54 pm Post subject:

benecol · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:42 am Post subject:

They're shite, apparently. But the Tender Octaver is meant to be amazing. Lonk

George · . Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 20327 Location: UK

i had a mooer pitch shifter and it was garbage. terrible tracking and only sympathetic to notes in the b major scale. everything else was dissonant

the only pedals that seem worth a punt are the pog or digitech whammy. best tracking i've ever had is surprisingly on fender mustang amps

dots · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:41 pm Post subject:

88 bucks on reverb.com for the tender might be worth a try next paycheck...
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Bacchus · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 12:45 pm Post subject:

Sort of relevant: I've been playing with my OC-3 a lot recently and can't get it to track at all reliably. I understood that the OC-2 was loved because it was glitchy, and that the OC-3 was supposed to be better/cleaner. I remember it being much better than this so I'm wondering if it's the guitar I'm using.
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dots · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:01 pm Post subject:

I guess it would help if I explained my intended use of the effect. I'm basically looking for something to track single or octave (power chord without the 5th) lines, adding only the higher octave. The tone will be over driven, and if it sounds a little synthy, I'm ok with that.
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George · . Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 20327 Location: UK

i found the oc3 to be one of the classic "only tracks reliably around the 12th fret on neck pickup" type pedals

Nick · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 2:35 pm Post subject:

Doog · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:06 pm Post subject:

Pitchfork does look awesome- not keen on EHX's 'balance' control (losing dry signal at the cost of FX signal is shite for some effects), but I think it'd work here. Obviously I can vouch for the Micro POGs, even if they don't keep the huge round bottom end (missus) of something like an OC-2. Tracking is worth it.

May cash in my spare Micro POG for a Pitchfork sometime soon actually.
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dots · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:13 pm Post subject:

looks/sounds great, but dat micro pog is a little spendier than i was looking to go at the moment. reverb's got a used one for $165 atm, tho...
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71Smallbox · . Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 2242 Location: Brooklyn

A lot of the glitchy aspects of certain octave/pitch shifting pedals can be fixed by putting a compression pedal in front of them. If the input its getting a varying signal, the processors/circuit will react oddly.

Bacchus · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 4:26 pm Post subject:

I have a compressor after my OC-3. My thinking was it would be good there to thicken up or fix the sound the OC-3 makes, but what you're saying makes sense.

Not certain I could be bothered with taking my board apart to try...
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benecol · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:24 pm Post subject:

Everyone else shut up: that Tender Octaver is a Micro POG beater for chump change.

Buy it dottyman.

dots · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 6:59 pm Post subject:

Brandon W · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:28 pm Post subject:

the epitome like i said in that other thread.. it has the pog in it
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