I gig with a Line 6 Variax 5 string, and in our three piece, I use the 8 and 12 string models a lot.
This causes me problems when I want to use one of my other basses. I have a few pitch shifters, but just shifting the pitch up doesn't get it. With the best sounding one, the octave up sounds like a cheap organ, and since there is no delay between the straight bass and the octave, it doesn't get the same sound.
So, against my near empty bank account, I bought a Digitech Mosaic...a 12 string emulator.
It gives octave above, with the appropriate delay and a realistic guitar tone. The controls are blend (adding the octave above) and tone (the brightness of the octave.)
I love it. I played with it on guitar for a couple hours the other day, both with electric and acoustic guitars. I have a really nice 12 string I built decades ago, that has two humbuckers (with coil taps) a rail strat type humbucker in the middle, a piezo bridge and a built in compressor and treble boost. I know what a 12 string should sound like.
This pedal gets really close. In a band no one would know it's not a 12 string. What is very cool is that the B and high E string do not stick out as having octave above. It sounds really natural with octaves on all but the B and high E. They sound more doubled than octaves.
It helps to play it like a 12 string. String bends sound strange.
On bass, it tracks perfectly and polyphonically. It takes no change in playing techniques. While not quite as accurate sounding as the models in my Variax, it sounds great.
I can't wait to use it in the band. We do a few songs that sound better with the octaves above. We also change keys to ease our old vocal chords. When I drop a classic bass riff down to D or C, adding the octave lifts the riff out and makes the low key sound fuller and more normal.
I play a single acoustic type act and was going to give my 12 a try, but now I don't need it. On acoustic, just a little octave above adds a lot of depth and drama.
This pedal is a winner. It's a little pricey at $149, but it can be found used with free shipping on line for $20 less.
I understand what it does, and it does take a lot of DSP to achieve what it does.
The pedal takes 250mA, which is a huge draw. It comes with a 1.3A 9v switching power supply, so it can handle this pedal and a few more normal pedals with jumpers. There is no battery option as a battery would last about an hour or two.
This fills a hole in my needs well. Now to save for an EHX B9.
This causes me problems when I want to use one of my other basses. I have a few pitch shifters, but just shifting the pitch up doesn't get it. With the best sounding one, the octave up sounds like a cheap organ, and since there is no delay between the straight bass and the octave, it doesn't get the same sound.
So, against my near empty bank account, I bought a Digitech Mosaic...a 12 string emulator.
It gives octave above, with the appropriate delay and a realistic guitar tone. The controls are blend (adding the octave above) and tone (the brightness of the octave.)
I love it. I played with it on guitar for a couple hours the other day, both with electric and acoustic guitars. I have a really nice 12 string I built decades ago, that has two humbuckers (with coil taps) a rail strat type humbucker in the middle, a piezo bridge and a built in compressor and treble boost. I know what a 12 string should sound like.
This pedal gets really close. In a band no one would know it's not a 12 string. What is very cool is that the B and high E string do not stick out as having octave above. It sounds really natural with octaves on all but the B and high E. They sound more doubled than octaves.
It helps to play it like a 12 string. String bends sound strange.
On bass, it tracks perfectly and polyphonically. It takes no change in playing techniques. While not quite as accurate sounding as the models in my Variax, it sounds great.
I can't wait to use it in the band. We do a few songs that sound better with the octaves above. We also change keys to ease our old vocal chords. When I drop a classic bass riff down to D or C, adding the octave lifts the riff out and makes the low key sound fuller and more normal.
I play a single acoustic type act and was going to give my 12 a try, but now I don't need it. On acoustic, just a little octave above adds a lot of depth and drama.
This pedal is a winner. It's a little pricey at $149, but it can be found used with free shipping on line for $20 less.
I understand what it does, and it does take a lot of DSP to achieve what it does.
The pedal takes 250mA, which is a huge draw. It comes with a 1.3A 9v switching power supply, so it can handle this pedal and a few more normal pedals with jumpers. There is no battery option as a battery would last about an hour or two.
This fills a hole in my needs well. Now to save for an EHX B9.
