Anyone use the Mooer Pure Octave?

[jumblemind]

I'm looking for a 1590a-sized octave pedal to squeeze onto my pt nano, and the only one I've found is the Mooer Pure Octave. I know that Mooer isn't making them right now (pending an update?), but I've found it stocked elsewhere online. Does anyone have any experience with one? I couldn't find much with the search function. The few seconds of bass in their demo vid didn't sound all that great, but they only showed two settings.

[millahh]

There was an ad in the classifieds for one of these about a month ago, where the seller said something to the effect of "Yes, it really sounds like that, so be advised". I take that to mean that the wobble and poor tuning in the video is representative.

[jumblemind]

Ah, thanks. I missed the "be advised" part. I thought he meant that it would really sound like steel drums or whatever. The warbly sound clips were definitely not what I'm after.

[millahh]

Well, the alternate pitch does sound metallic and percussive (at least it did on the PitchBox that I had on my board for about three minutes), and therefore steel drum-esque...it's just pitchy. I would actually describe the sounds from the pitchbox as being unmusical. It does sound like the Pure Octave handles bass way better than the PB did, but it still has that same metallic harshness (to my ears, anyway).

[cavemanbass]

I just posted this on the Mooer thread, not sure if I should link to it or copy / paste:

well, I took one for the team and ordered a Mooer Pure Octave from Amazon. $88 shipped. Will be returning as soon as I can get to the post office, it's completely unusable for octave up IMO. Can't imagine it being any better on guitar, but I'll let someone else try that...

For reference, I've found most pitch shifter devices sound like crap for octave up; exceptions that I've tried are the Line 6M9 (so I assume the M5 is also good), the Eventide Pitch Factor, and the original V-Bass. Yeah, all of these cost way more than the Mooer, but they also do many more functions. I was hoping that Mooer had figured out how to do the simple octave up / down at low cost and more importantly in a small box / using 9V power supply.

Here's my review from Amazon:
I was tempted to give two stars because the form factor and overall quality feel - nice switches, looks / feels very well made. But, the sound quality is so bad that I could not do it. I bought this for doing octave up pitch shifting, as I've got the octave down (traditional analog octaver) covered. I was playing single note lines, not expecting it to be able to track multiple notes.

The pitch shifted sound is horribly out of tune and has a wavering, warbly tonality. No way that I could use it for lead lines where I hoped for a stable, clear octave-up copy of my original sound. So, I tried mixing in just a small amount of pitch shifted sound with clean hoping that I could use it to just add a bit of brightness, but the sound is so out of tune that even in really small doses it was driving me crazy. I can't believe that Mooer put this pedal on the market, definitely does not give me confidence in their other products.

[BigBeatNut]

FWIW this is well covered in the guitar forums too. I know that guitarists can't give us a good/bad verdict for bass, but there are claims that the warbling also happens to a degree in the sub-octaves.

YMMV