Help with OC-2 please...

By farting, do you mean, glitching? If so, that's perfectly normal. I've never been able to clip an OC2, even with superhot basses. Did you change the battery?

 

The levels on your distortion may be too hot coming into the OC-2, if it's the first in line. I've never clipped an OC-2, either.

 

That's really weird. Sell your OC-2 and get an EBS Octa-bass.

 

Interesting. Having your pickups really high isn't really good for your tone; perhaps the pickups themselves or your internal preamp was clipping, and the OC2 may have just made that more apparent. Who knows? As long as it works, it's all good.

I still recommend the EBS though. Awesome!

 

I think the problem is also you don't have a Q-tron...

 

Ok, your bass is passive. It's still possible to distort the pickups, however it's unlikely.

Having your pickups too high can cause intonation problems and unnatural string movement. The magnetic field generated by the pickups affects the way the strings vibrate; they will have a more eliptical movement instead of a round movement (it's like how gravity affects planetary motion, in a way). When the magnetic field is too high, it can cause the harmonics of the note to be off-kilter, making the notes sound weird.

There's a more exact answer somewhere in Setup, I believe, but don't quote me on that.

 

This is impossible.
Friends don't sell you OC-2.
It was never made for bass in the first place.
The OC-3 is much nicer.

 

Of course, this topic has been played out dozens of times b4 on TB but that is the nature of this place so no matter. The OC-2 has the _warmest_ tone of any octave box out there save the old 'Tron maybe. The EBS tracks wonderfully but is chilly and sterile. But.... the best pedal out there currently is by far the Digitech bass synth wah which retains the OC-2's warmth AND tracks down to my B-string. A side by side with both my OC-2 and past EBS confirmed this. A bargain IMO..we'll see how this new Boss holds up.