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Best octaver

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MarcGodin

Nov 10, 2009
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Quebec
#1
I'm in the market for an octaver. I never bought or use an octaver. After reading a lot of post I've coming to the conclusion that I need an analog octaver instead of a digital. For what I've read, I'm hesitating with three of them.

Foxrox Octron 2

MXR BOD

Aguilar Octamizer

The Octron been my first choice for the octave up. Anyone have comments about theses octavers to help me decide??
 
#3
Im in the midst of a similar quest for octavation. Did you look at the Ebs Octabass? I was looking at that some, would be interested in hearing how you thought it stacked up against those other peds you mentioned.
 
#7
The Octron is my first choice but since it's not a dedicated bass octaver and the lack of bass sample make me hesitating. In the others hand, I've read a lot of good comments about this pedal. Does it worth the extra money over the mxr or the aguilar?
 
#9
Don't forget my favorite discontinued octave: Ampeg Sub-Blaster. It's a simple beast (direct volume and octave volume), but it tracks well and sounds very nice. I've actually been contemplating giving the MXR a thorough test at home. It sounded good in the store when I tried it out.
 
#14
MarcGodin said:
I'm in the market for an octaver. I never bought or use an octaver. After reading a lot of post I've coming to the conclusion that I need an analog octaver instead of a digital. For what I've read, I'm hesitating with three of them.

Foxrox Octron 2

MXR BOD

Aguilar Octamizer

The Octron been my first choice for the octave up. Anyone have comments about theses octavers to help me decide??
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Well unless you specifically need the switching options of the Octron 2 I'd just get an Octron.

Octron is my fav, I'm about to buy an Octron 2 but I need the switching options
 
#15
The Octron works wonders for me. For more than a year, every now and then I start to think, hey I'm not using this as much as I should and maybe I should sell it to fund something else. And within a week or two I'm proven wrong and it never leaves my board.

Don't worry about bass tracking. Octave up never gives me problems, and octave down is pretty decent down to the open A or so for me.. unless I'm sustaining a note for really long, then it splutters a bit. I'm mainly using flats, which I hear helps tracking, but I don't recall it giving me problems with my rounds on fretted.

As for chords, it seems to sound okay maybe a bit more than half of the time. I don't really have good enough ears to figure out which note exactly it's octaving, but I can hear there's something filling up the space. It's not so reliable on chords though, intervals is the most I'll trust it with.

I was thinking of getting an Octron 2, but it's money that I don't REALLY need to spend and my pedalboard's cramped and heavy enough already.
 
#17
I owned the MXR:BOD and honestly I felt very underwhelmed from it. It didn't track that well along the neck, it was glitchy, its sound was fairly limited, and the plug in was on it's side (really bothered me for some reason). That said, the tones it could produce were nice, but by and large they were just too clean. I recently switched to the OC-3 and have found myself much happier. Yes - it is a digital octave, but it tracks so much better, can get a gritty, synthy tone, as well as the 'bubbly' BOD tone, and it's even polyphonic. But anyways, take this however you want it but I do believe there is a reason you see a lot of BODs on sale in the classifieds.
 

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