8-String in a Pedal: Mosaic? Multi Overtone?

You might check out the TRex Quint Machine my favorite new Octaver.
→ T-REX EFFECTS ← Pedals for guitar and bass players!

TC Sub n Up is cool too with the tone print options.

 

H9, i use it as a D-tuner or down to B, to not having to use 5-string bass. You can’t tell the difference in a band setting, no latency to speak of.

 

I've owned both I love the boss but I think the Mosaic would be closer to your needs

I did a vid of the Boss

 

Wait, he's looking for an effect that will give him the root-plus-octave of an 8-string double-coursed bass, not to pitch shift downward. I'm sure the H9 has something for that, too, just clarifying.

 

Thanks! So the "wet" tone of setting one especially will cut the low end, setting two I find the most balanced and setting three just seems a bit muddy for bass in my opinion. Personally my favourite settings are always setting two with 25-50% wet blended in with the Balance control.

 

I have an actual 8-string bass (ESP Ltd. B-208FM); I can get pretty close to its sound with a Pigtronix Bass Phaser and a chorus.

 

Correct, it can do what you ask for. I’ve been using it for the 8-string thing too at times, sounds great but i’m sure there are other not so costly pedals that can do the same.
Ehx ring thing does it too, but does sound a little sterile.

 

I own an 8-string bass, but I got tired of bringing it to gigs just to play it on a handful of songs, so I ended up getting a Nano POG. I agree that it sounds "digital and effecty" by itself, but it's actually pretty convincing in the mix. One trick I've found is to have the octave-up at only about half the level of the dry signal.

 

I'm also an 8 string owner (Schecter Stiletto 8). Previously had an EHX Pitchfork and agree it sounded pretty tinny / digital. Mosaic has been on my board a while now - I think it's a great pedal and very happy to recommend it.

For a bit of fun, I provided a few recorded samples of 4 string + Mosaic vs 8 string and asked fellow bassists on this side of the pond to see if they could easily tell them apart. 40% thought the Mosaic got pretty close and some were even 'fooled' into thinking that the Mosaic was the 8 string.

Here's a link to that thread if you're interested in having a listen to the clips for yourself.

Is it an 8 string or a 4 string?

 

I have the Mosaic and use it occasionnally on acoustic guitar. I just tried it with an Epi TBird Bass and even though it's not a sound I would go go for, it worked out quite well with the level knob at 10oc and the tone set at noon. As for the Ricochet, I owned 2 different units and gave up on it, I really couldn't deal with the muddyness the latency brought with the gear I had at the time. I even left a band because all guitars were required to have this pedal and I simply wanted no part of it (and I'm far from being a tone purist). Could also that I didn't adjust my playing properly, but at that point, I really didn't care for the pedal anymore. Of course, YMMV.

Disclaimer: never owned 8 or 12 stringers.

 

I used to use a pedal to emulate an 8 string and it did pretty well. Good enough for a situation where you only use it on one or two songs.

I now have an actual 8-string and use it on about half the songs in a rock trio. The reality is that the pedal versions, all of them, can't really do what the 8 can do. By adjusting picking technique you can get more or less of the octave note (or for some parts of songs, none of the octave) and running it through two amps, (bass amp set for the four string P bass and then a guitar amp with the bottom end right down and a bit of dirt and reverb for the upper frequencies) the sound is huge and not much like an octave-up pedal.

 

I bought the Multi Overtone just for fun to try on both guitar and bass, not specifically looking for an 8 or 12 string sound. I would agree with DosiYanarchy that mode 2 sounds the best for bass guitar with just a little blend. Mode one is a little lacking on the bass, and mode 3 basically doubles the original bass note yielding nothing crazy. Still a fun pedal! I have not tried any notes lower than E because I don't own a five string or tune down. At extreme settings you can get some really weird effects. I'm more interested in an octave down pedal now.

 

The multi-overtone is a cool pedal, but IMO the Mosaic sounds more like a genuine 8-string. I haven’t tried it on a 5, but it seems to handle down to D just fine.