Best octave down pedal for two piece w/baritone gtr?

[VoodooJazz]

Instead of the pedal, I suggest you try a Squire Vintage Modified Bass VI. You’ll have full bass range, with more on top of that. The scale length is very agreeable, the neck is superb, and there are a lot of great sounds that come out of that instrument. I don’t mean this as a thread hijack. I just really think that instrument will give you just what you are looking for. At the very least go try one.

 

[La Faro]

I've been thinking that might be an issue, and actually wondered if any octave pedals have some kind of frequency cutoff where it stops doubling above a certain freq. Any ideas on that?

The SubNUp editor does have a cut off frequency for each octaver in the editor

 

[La Faro]

 

[Drucifer]

I've got a Micro Pog, Nano Pog, OC-2, Pitchfork, and Octabvre II, all will track well down to A. The digital effects track a little better than analog. Some are more synthy than others, it depends on what you're looking for. You also might consider one of those octave/distortion pedals.

 

[whoismarykelly]

I've been running a baritone split into guitar amp and octave down bass amp for 6 or so years now in various projects. You need big amps and cabs to handle everything well. The key to the octave signal is compression. Run your octaver into a compressor and then into some bass dirt and you'll be good to go. I also have a controller that lets me have only bass, only guitar, or both which makes parts sound more like there are multiple people playing. Im playing in GGCFAD so a similar range to what you're doing.

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Different idea:
If all you need is a push in the low end but don’t want to muddy up your signal, try the DOD Meatbox.
It just boosts 30 & 60 Hz.
Makes your low end sound massive, and doesn’t introduce any additional sounds or tones that could take away from your chordal work.
Just use it sparingly.

A local 2 piece doom/whatever/i’m-not-hip-enough-to-know-the-different-subgenres does this. The guy plays a downtuned (to A, i think) guitar and splits his signal to a guitar amp and a bass amp.
Guitar amp gets the weird pedals, bass amp just has the Meatbox.
Absolutely massive.

 

[twocargar]

I didn't see anyone mention it, but how about some MIDI bass pedals? You could do a fat Moog Taurus low end and even trigger other stuff.

 

[Drucifer]

How about this:


or this:

 

[Southtwin]

Lulz don't get me started on the old time Appalachian one man band I attempted a couple years ago..

Lots of great stuff to chew on here, I def appreciate it. Also for the record I kind of hate using snobby sounding terms like "post rock" but didn't really know how else to say this wouldn't just be straight doom/sludge power chords but also weirder, complex chords in the higher register that need to not get turned into detuned warbly mud.

The sub'n'up mini is tempting as hell since it's $78 new on Amazon rn and seems like the toneprint allows a ton of tweakability, I wouldn't care much about not being able to tweak much live. However it gets dragged a lot in user reviews for sounding weak, weird, generally not as good as POG. Not sure if they just didn't spend enough time in toneprint or if it really is just crappier sounding than others.

Would def like to hear whoismarykelly's setup and get more info on the details! Also I'd love to try a meatbox but those bastards are at least $160 on reverb with no returns.. in fact I'd like to try a lot of things (i.e. bass vi) but unfortunately I live in BFE Appalachia with no legit music stores within at least a couple hours

 

[whoismarykelly]

The TC is by far the best of them because you can use the tone print editor to add EQ before and after the octaver to make it sound more like a bass. I cut subs before the octaver and then boost subs and upper mids after to have a more accurate 'bass' tone.

I've used every polyphonic octave on the market and its the best. POGs are bad news because there is dry and octave up bleed into the signal even with the knobs at zero which leads to an annoying synthy quality rather than just the octave down. Pitch Fork was what I used before the sub'n'up. Don't bother with digitech stuff. The octave down is way too dark to have the presence of an accurate bass signal.

This is what I run:

 

[DosiYanarchy]

This is a great thread and a similar thought to that which has been going through my mind recently.... But almost the other way round.

I'm gonna get a Squier VI, on it's own it's a bit thin (had one before) so I want to get more beef out of the lows as well get more in the highs (via octave up) to help me fill out the sound.

I've got a thought regarding getting fatter lows though. Either the DOD FX10 Bifet Preamp or the Mantic Thug. I think the thug is based on the FX10. It essentially is a bass boost. Nothing to groundbreaking there, but the difference is that you may have heard that when it comes to EQ you can't add what isn't there already, well the FX10 seems to dispute this.

It adds real depth and beef to basses that otherwise might sound a bit thin. It's addictive and when you turn it off, you'll miss it.

I used the FX10 with my first Squier VI and it made a massive difference when playing with a band and got it alot closer to the punch and depth of a regular bass. I might get the Thug next to compare, which I'm sure will be less awkward to power and have better bypass.

 

[DosiYanarchy]

Also, something like the BBE Sonic Maximizer sounds like it could help you add depth to the bass and presence to the top end at the same time

 

[La Faro]

The sub'n'up mini is tempting as hell since it's $78 new on Amazon rn and seems like the toneprint allows a ton of tweakability, I wouldn't care much about not being able to tweak much live. However it gets dragged a lot in user reviews for sounding weak, weird, generally not as good as POG.

Something I noticed in reviews, and in head to heads: was reviewers not really being aware of the poly vs mono mode. I'd see in head to head comparisons, the Subnup in poly modes, going head to head with other pedals for single note lines. And in reveiews that talked about single note lines, theer wasn't a mention of how it sounded when in Mono mode. When they did make reference to mono mode, the review were much more favourable to the Subnups tone in single note lines.