Can't believe I'm making an "Octave Pedal As Rhythm Guitar" thread...

[TrevorOfDoom]

if you use the MicroPog, to run the dry out to your bass amp and then borrow a small-ish guitar combo and run that on the effected out, with some nice light overdrive.

Any simple octave-up should do it, I think the real key to getting it to sound convincing is to NOT blend it in with your bass signal, but to send it out to a small guitar amp.

Stereo/bi-amp rig!

exactly!!

a little tube amp would be amazing for that!

 

[tallboybass]

...also, you might want to consider, if you use the MicroPog, to run the dry out to your bass amp and then borrow a small-ish guitar combo and run that on the effected out, with some nice light overdrive.

This absolutely works....downside is that when you turn the MicroPog off, it sends regular bass signal to the guitar amp.

 

[OrionManMatt]

This absolutely works....downside is that when you turn the MicroPog off, it sends regular bass signal to the guitar amp.

Which is exactly why I was about to suggest a quality A/B/Y, an octave up of choice, and a guitar amp/modeler. Run one signal in, two signals out and you don't get the unfortunate current side effect of the dry out of the Micro POG.

I like the Radial ABY.
VisualSound makes a good fuzz/octave up.
And I'm crazy enough to suggest an amp modeler or a Sansamp Tri-A.C.

 

[troubleboy]

This absolutely works....downside is that when you turn the MicroPog off, it sends regular bass signal to the guitar amp.

I use a looper pedal with true bypass before the Micro Pog. You could also use a volume pedal between the Micro Pog's effect out and the guitar amp.

 

[cheapbasslovin]

I run parallel paths and have one bass signal clean and my HOG signal all distorted and use only one amp with pretty fair results. I don't think it is an absolute necessity to have two amps, but separate signal paths where your bass signal isn't getting effected by the same dirt as your octave up is key to really creating a separated sound.

 

[Drucifer]

I'm playing in a three-piece, and when the guitarist solos the sound drops out. I bought an EHX Micro POG, I run the dry out to my bass rig and the effect signal to a guitar processor (hand-me-down from the guitar player) and into a guitar amp. I set the Sub-Octave to off, and the Dry and Octave Up all the way. When the solo starts I stomp on the switch and instant rhythm guitar player. The POG tracks great and I can get any sound I want with the processor. I could run it from the processor directly into the PA, but having the guitar amp on the other side of the stage from the guitar player helps with stage volume and really sounds like another player. And the guitar amp makes it sound more like a real guitar, in my opinion.

If I did anything different it would be to think about buying a full-sized POG or even a HOG to get more voices. Or a hex pickup, then you could do anything. Hope this helps.

Drew

Edit: as Tallboybass mentioned, the downside is that when you turn the MicroPog off, it sends regular bass signal to the guitar amp, so I use an A-B switch as OrionManMatt describes. Also, I set the Dry all the way off, no need for dry signal in the effect out.