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Do any octave pedals offer an octave up rather than down?

#23
I use the TC SubnUp too. The Up works well but you'll need to do some knob tweaking if you're going to use the Sub1 and or Sub2 at the same time as the subs are voiced much louder to my ear. Otherwise I think it works really well with just Dry and Up. The cool thing about the pedal is that you can assign other effects to the other knobs with toneprint. So for example you can assign Chorus to the Sub2 knob and add that effect to the Dry, Up and Sub1 output. Pretty cool!
 
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I had a micro-pog for awhile. The thought was to thicken the band sound in certain parts of tunes that seemed a little thin. It worked pretty well for that purpose, but it had a bit of an artificial sound to it. You would just need to determine your tolerance for such things.
 
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unbrokenchain said:
Like the title says, all I see in octave pedals is an octave down,
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Electroharmonix POG (Poly octave generator) is the pedal you seek, I know others out there exist but this one seems to be the most widely used for this purpose
unbrokenchain said:
like the sympathetic strings on a 12 string guitar?
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The octave up string on a 12 string are not "sympathetic strings", "sympathetic strings" are strings that you don't not pluck/pick etc..., Like take a sitar for example, you have three string you play on and the 10 other sympathetic strings which will sound out as you play said frequency. (If you play an "A" on a sitar, the corresponding "a" sympathetic string will ring out due to the A being played on the main string
 
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unbrokenchain said:
Like the title says, all I see in octave pedals is an octave down, which is great if you're a guitar player, but what about one that will take the bass and add an octave up, like the sympathetic strings on a 12 string guitar?
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Haven't even read one reply message to your post, so someone may have already said this one, but the Earthquaker Devices Tentacles does exclusively octave up.
 
#32
HEY PRYMAXE! Where's my iSTOMP?

Swingshift algorithm, up up and awayyyyyy:
  • OCT DOWN - Adjusts the level of the Octave Down voice.
  • 5TH UP - Adjusts the level of the 5th Up voice.
  • OCT UP - Adjusts the level of the Octave Up voice.
  • 2 OCT UP - Adjusts the level of the 2 Octaves Up voice.
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No idea how this tracks, what it sounds like... 'cause ... Prymaxe.
 
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Feral Feline said:
That's Freq'n C:cool::cool:L!

First one I've ever seen "in the wilds", albeit not in person so not that wild.


Can you tell us more about it, how it tracks, sound quality ... any extra info is appreciated.
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Okay, so I pulled the Ampeg A-7 Multi Octaver out of its lair and plugged it in. I doubt it's the sound you're looking for. I plugged my '83 Ric 4003 into it, and then to my GK MB212.

It's an elaborate distortion device with, it seems, almost a touch of ring modulator to it. Probably frightening to small children. Octave up is pure distortion (especially considering there is no blend knob). Octave down and two octaves down are synthy and distorted, and the decay sputters out. Almost unusable below the twelfth fret for one and two octaves down. Could be useful for something, maybe video game music, but there seems to be no way to get a clear tone out of it. (I'm really tempted to plug a drum machine into it.)

Then I plugged my Hagstrom 8-string in, and it was atrocious, total shedooby. (This is coming from someone with quite a tolerance for godawful noise.) Interestingly, it effected the octave strings far less than the low strings.

So, bottom line, I doubt this fills the need. I'm going to find an off-the-wall and possibly scary use for it.
 
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This is one of those questions where the answers split along analog/digital lines.

Digital octave up is relatively clean though it often has a kettle drum sort of sound to it, and always has at least a small amount of latency. The most common examples are the EHX pog family many have already mentioned, and they're quite good.

Analog octave up can be sort of achieved with some fuzzes (called octave fuzzes), but for true note transposition most pedals use a circuit based on the Dan Armstrong green ringer. The ringer is a cousin of the ring mod, and sounds like it. It is not a clean circuit at all, very abrasive, but it's a cool sound nonetheless. The earthquakes tentacle is based on it AFAIK, as is the octave up in the mutron divider, and its family of pedals, of which it's my understanding that the Foxrox pedal is a part. Some ring mod pedals can be used to this effect.

I had the Henrietta purple octopus for a while and liked it.

One difficulty of the ringer circuit is that it inverts the signal, and so it's not so simple to blend it with your clean sound, as in, you need something more sophisticated than an Ls-2

For a 12 string sound, digital is the way to go.
 
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farace said:
Okay, so I pulled the Ampeg A-7 Multi Octaver out of its lair and plugged it in. I doubt it's the sound you're looking for. I plugged my '83 Ric 4003 into it, and then to my GK MB212.

It's an elaborate distortion device with, it seems, almost a touch of ring modulator to it. Probably frightening to small children. Octave up is pure distortion (especially considering there is no blend knob). Octave down and two octaves down are synthy and distorted, and the decay sputters out. Almost unusable below the twelfth fret for one and two octaves down. Could be useful for something, maybe video game music, but there seems to be no way to get a clear tone out of it. (I'm really tempted to plug a drum machine into it.)

Then I plugged my Hagstrom 8-string in, and it was atrocious, total shedooby. (This is coming from someone with quite a tolerance for godawful noise.) Interestingly, it effected the octave strings far less than the low strings.

So, bottom line, I doubt this fills the need. I'm going to find an off-the-wall and possibly scary use for it.
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Well, yes & no.

This sounds like a pedal I'd be very interested in, for noise-making but not for Octave duties.

So it fills one need, but not the need I thought it might. :D

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BTW, referring to my earlier iStomp post...
I like Digitech's descriptions for each of the octave functions, ie :
"Oct Up – adjusts the level of the octave up voice"
Gee, I'da never figgerred thet oot!
I tort mebbe Oct Up wuz fer adjostling th' tymin' chain of the effect. :roflmao:

Ahhh well, I'm the pot calling the kettle black, as I oft state the obvious. :bag:
 

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