Can Helix or Eventide do the Boss OC 2/3?

[duke2004]

Specific question is whether anyone familiar with one of those fx platforms knows
if i can assign a crossover...the Boss can let choose a lower frequency (low strings)
to get the octaver effect and the upper strings can remain w/o the effect for solo or whatever.

Thx in advance for any such info.

 

[Blu bro]

I have the eventide H9 max and I can’t get it to do the OC-2 thing.

 

[TheLopp]

Check out Zack Rizer's excellent review about analog vs digital octavers.



Edit: Sorry, just read your question again and I don’t think I saw the answer of that in the video. Lesson learned, I will drink up my coffee and wake up before I post a reply here.

 

[Mr. voodoobass]

Nope, h9 can’t do that, and pretty sure no digital octave can. You will need an analog octave for that sound.

 

[duke2004]

Thanks for the replies. Yes saw that video, very good in terms of digital vs analog.
Oh well, so much for one multifx doing everything (its good to dream)

 

[jbybj]

Nope, h9 can’t do that, and pretty sure no digital octave can. You will need an analog octave for that sound.

A digital modeler, modeling an analog octave wil do a closer job, than an unrepentant digital octaver (think Line 6 vs. a POG)

 

[tapedseams]

I'm not sure about the crossover part of the question, but those digital octave fx would sound much closer (but still not the same) as the OC-2 with some heavy EQ/low passing after them and even closer if you can get your bass to be more of a square wave (clipped, rectified via a fuzz or distortion pedal) before the digital effect. But that's probably too much effort when you can just get an OC-2 or similar.