OC-2???

[amroach]

I am after an octaver pedal but im not sure where to turn, i was looking at the OC-2 as they seem quite popular, but idealy i need the octave above which the oc-2 dosnt provide, so i have been looking at the EHX micro pog, so does any one have anything useful to say on these pedals? any oppions on whats better and if theres any pedals they wipe the floor with these pedals that i havent come across.

Anyone?

 

[SG-Jazz]

whammy4 does this and more.

 

[Din Of Win]

I second the whammy4.

My room-mate has one for his guitar, but i snatched it from him to mess around with after seeing Brian using one with These Arms are Snakes.

Tons of fun!

The micro pog is totally fun to mess around with as well... but for the same price (but probably less) the Whammy 4 does even more!

 

[El Beardo]

I have used the Whammy and I noticed that it didn't sound to hot when using the 2+ oct./ 2- oct. setting on the higher side of my 4 strings. The signal would break up a bit when I tried it.

 

[kevteop]

Is the tracking on the Whammy 4 as good as the Micro POG?

To the thread starter: If you want a pure octave above, bear in mind it might sound a bit weedy and digital. There are analogue octavers that do an octave up (EHX Bass Micro Synth, Foxrox Octron, etc.) but the way they do it means it sounds a bit overdrivey, it's not clean.

That said, digital harmonisers like the EHX POG/Micro POG, Whammy etc. do a better job of duplicating what you're playing an octave up, but can sound a bit thin and weedy doing it.

IMHO adding higher octaves to a bass signal doesn't tend to work out very well. You might be better off playing an octave higher and adding an octave down from an OC-2 if you want a lot of beef to your sound.

If the reason you're doing this is to cover some higher frequencies while a guitarist solos, maybe look at the Akai Unibass.

 

[amroach]

basically the thing is i want a really good sounds of sub ocataves because thats what its basically for most of the time, although i need the octave above only really for one song atm for about a whole 12 bars in which its caked in fuzz, for a synthy kinda sounds, which i want the octave up for synthy sounds but sub octaves just for for normal nice tones, but the octave up i used to play on a 24 fret ibanez but now i have a 20 fret jazz bass which means i've lost the the E on the 21st fret of the G string which is where i need the sound

 

[rhino333]

I have the OC-2 and OC-3 and like them both. You might want to look at the Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz (I have one of those, as well). It has an octave up.