Octave question

[Lowpro]

Hey guys, I've got a question on octavers; partly a "does this theory work/do you dig it" and partly "what out there fits the bill"

I've got a Stingray which sounds punchy, I have to throw a good bit of bottom via my amp since my effects chain kinda strangled my tone and leaves me with sort of a "fake" sound; it's noticeable. It's good for that punchy crisp treble but like I said my bottom is out.

So to fix that I've been running through another peavey amp (courtesy of my bass whammy which has a dry out) and EQ'd it to really fill my bottom out.

However I've been wanting to dig on an octaver but I know that what I want it for is to give me that synthy "pog" sound, I'm not looking for grit so much as I am looking for a bit of reverby keys sound. What I wanted to do was leave it with my Peavey chain with a reverb pedal if needed so I can basically kepe the trebly presence from my main amp while throwing that synthy powerhouse down through the peavey. Not saying I know if it works, but I know I dig octavers mixed with flangers and I want to get that kinda sound every once in awhile.

There's my origin story pretty much (really kinda useless now that I look back on it...) but what octave pedals aren't focused on ODing the lower octave so much as really filling in good bass and giving that synthier sound. If none do that, does anyone try throwing the Octaver in with a reverb/flang to really get it to shimmer?

[rratajski]

Most octave pedals don't OD or add dirt to the lower octave. I think that you might be confusing this w/ the octave up on analog pedals, where you will find an octave up sound created by distortion,
For example, the EHX BMS will give you a warm, clean suboctave and/or a dirty octave up.

The EHX POG, Micro POG, and HOG will give you clean octaves all around being that they are digital octavers.

The Boss OC-2 will give you synthy aspects to the octave down too, according me a whole slew of posts here.

IME, most (almost all) times I think of reverb on bass, it either sucks the bass out of the mix/tone (which you mentioned having a problem w/ in the OT). For bedroom sounds, a reverb can make a bass shimmer, but in a band setting it mostly likely won't...unless your band is a quiet band with quiet, clean guitars. I don't know that an octaver will add anything other than octaves to a reverb.

[dannybuoy]

Boss OC-2 fo' sho', mo' fo'.