Clean octave up that sounds good?

[bkbirge]

I did a search but near as I can tell the only octave up that's clean is the POG and I just sold mine because I hate the grainy sound and the latency, does not work on tracks at all. What I want is something that will give me a nice 8 string sound for fretless soloing. I'm not interested in the octave down, otherwise I'd just play above 12th fret all the time and be done. Has anyone run across a nice octave up that blends well? The Eventide harmonizers will do it but they are bulky and expensive. I've already got a green ringer box that does distorted octave up, not even close to what I need though cool for some things. Thanks for any tips!

 

[NecroticImbecil]

I've never encountered one that gives a clean sounding octave up. The best sounding ones I've heard basically added a synth sound an octave up. Even the legendary Akai Unibass just made a synthy high pitched buzz. Did you find the performance of the Eventide satisfactory? Assuming it was the rack units you found bulky and expensive, they do make pedals now...they are cheaper and more portable than the rack effects.

 

[bkbirge]

Never tried the eventide pedals, only the rack units in the studio. I'll go look at their pedals thanks for the tip.

 

[bassbrad]

AKAI UNIBASS is what you want, works great with fretless.

 

[silky smoove]

Foxrox Octron does octave up and octave down. There's some gain built in, so I'm not sure how well it cleans up. The Foxrox website has a lot of info.

 

[grygrx]

Foxrox Octron does octave up and octave down. There's some gain built in, so I'm not sure how well it cleans up. The Foxrox website has a lot of info.

The Octave up is a product of distortion and doesn't clean up.

 

[silky smoove]

The Octave up is a product of distortion and doesn't clean up.

I was wondering about that as I've not heard it in a clean octave up setting. Oh well... It was worth a shot.

 

[Altitude]

The Octave up is a product of distortion and doesn't clean up.

+1. I bought an Octron for octave up and quickly returned it because of that.

I'm using pitch shifters for octave up at the moment. The Boss GT-10B has one that more or less equals the PS-3 pedal. The shifted output is absolutely a synthy, non-bass sounding thing, but when layered with a filter, chorus, or something like that, it can be a cool effect. The great thing about the GT-10B is that it's possible to apply those effects to the octave up effect and not to the dry signal.

 

[bkbirge]

The unibass looks cool but they aren't made anymore. Not necessarily a bad thing as I can just wait to find one but are there any current productions going on?