Analog sub octave effects pedal

[Joshua Vance]

Hello! I play a fretless bass thru a boss OC3 currently. I’ve always had issues with the pedal losing track when I play notes maybe below D, as played on the A string. I always get an annoying warble like the pedal doesn’t know what to do and jitters back and forth between a couple pitches. I assume maybe some of this behavior is due to the fretless, and me having less than perfect intonation, but I don’t have issues with large distance glissando/portamento maneuvers in higher registers.

is this due to the digital make up of the pedal? Do other iterations of the OC series tend to behave this way? Also if I’m not mistaken, analog octave pedals only provide a new note ABOVE the origin pitch played, am I wrong? Either way, any advice on some octave pedals to look at to replace the OC3 would be nice to know!

 

[DosiYanarchy]

Most analog octave pedals will provide a note 1 or 2 octaves below the note you play. Where they do reference an octave up, it's almost always a octavia/green ringer style fuzz which has octave-like characteristics when you play in a certain way.

Some digital octave pedals, like the Electro-Harmonix Pog series, can give you a variety of octaves up and down without the poorer tracking of analog pedals, but give a very different tone to something like the OC-2.

You might want to give the OC-5 a go as I have heard it good job of both types of sound but I haven't tried it myself.

Edit : I should mention that whilst your OC-3 is digital, it very much is imitating the analog octave sounds rather than the digital pitch-Shifter/harmoniser sounds of the Whammy, Pitchfork, Pog and Hog

 

[HelpImaRock]

It's due to octavers tracking poorly below D. It's not you, it's the pedal. Personally, I prefer to go octave up instead of octave down.

 

[Joshua Vance]

Most analog octave pedals will provide a note 1 or 2 octaves below the note you play. Where they do reference an octave up, it's almost always a octavia/green ringer style fuzz which has octave-like characteristics when you play in a certain way.

Some digital octave pedals, like the Electro-Harmonix Pog series, can give you a variety of octaves up and down without the poorer tracking of analog pedals, but give a very different tone to something like the OC-2.

You might want to give the OC-5 a go as I have heard it good job of both types of sound but I haven't tried it myself.

Edit : I should mention that whilst your OC-3 is digital, it very much is imitating the analog octave sounds rather than the digital pitch-Shifter/harmoniser sounds of the Whammy, Pitchfork, Pog and Hog

I think I’m gonna give the OC5 a spin. I much enjoy the separate outputs for direct signal and octave. Pains me to see the drivers on my Berg pop out as far as they were when ran all-in to my rig. I do enjoy the OC3 sound when it tracks. Sucks the OC5 is out of stock everywhere!