Octave up pedal?

[hawkman2]

Is there such as thing as a fast tracking one or two octave-up effect pedal? In some songs, I'd like to double my bass sound - current clean signal, doubled with clean or distorted "guitar like" sound through a box. Or maybe a midi pitch sensor that I could route through a midi tone module, also to double my current clean bass sound?
The baloney that surrounds most pedal descriptions is incomprehensible to me.
Many thanks if anyone can share their exprience or thoughts.
J Hawkins

 

[jetofuj]

For distorted (analog) check out FoxRox Octron and for clean (digital) Electro-Harmonix POG.

 

[René_Julien]

distorted: AKAI Unibass

undistorted (but organ-like): EHX POG or EHX HOG




multi-effect: appearantly the BOSS GT-10B can generate a distorted guitar simulation alongside your original bass signal

 

[Bob C]

I just bought an Akai Unibass on eBay. It tracks really well. They are out of production, but not impossible to find. The EHX MicroPOG is popular too. Neither does two octaves up though.

Both of the above mentioned pedals can add the octave (Akai has fuzz and other intervals too) with your clean signal or by itself.

There are not as many octave up pedals as octave downs, but there are a few others out there.

 

[Bob C]

My last post is somewhat redundant, as others type faster than I do.

 

[jetofuj]

I guess POG (big one) does 2 octaves up.

 

[hawkman2]

Thanks everybody - I'll check these out now.

 

[gumtown]

+1 for the Boss GT-10B, it can do some tricky stuff.
In total you can use 3 pitch shifting type effects at one time, including 2 Harmonist effects, which can each add 2 part Harmonies to you dry sound.
The fastest tracking effect is the Pedal Bend, which can do -+ 2 octaves.

 

[jmorbita]

I was wondering the same thing... i just need an octave up though, for one particular song in which i play this riff on the E string and tune my D up to E to be able to play the riff an octave higher. Last rehearsal i broke 2 strings... never happened before, but I'd rather not tune up any more...

 

[groooooove]

if you wanna go 2 octaves up (you do ) digitech whammy is the way to go. only other thing i know of that can do it is a pog, but sooner or later the pog will turn into a $300 kill switch, when it dies on you.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

if you wanna go 2 octaves up (you do ) digitech whammy is the way to go. only other thing i know of that can do it is a pog, but sooner or later the pog will turn into a $300 kill switch, when it dies on you.

You always warn that everyone's POGs will die on them because yours died on you- try to remember that the vast majority of them haven't died on people.

The Whammy has quite a few artifacts when it's up two octaves, so I'd pick the POG over it- the Pitchfactor will do it as well and sound great, but it's likely far more than you want.

 

[bigchiefbc]

if you wanna go 2 octaves up (you do ) digitech whammy is the way to go. only other thing i know of that can do it is a pog, but sooner or later the pog will turn into a $300 kill switch, when it dies on you.

As someone who owns, and loves, a whammy, I still disagree. The 2 octave up setting on the whammy doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the POG. And I have owned well over a grand (closer to two) worth of EHX stuff, for several years, and have yet to have a single one crap out on me.

 

[rcubed]

I borrowed the Whammy and thought the octave up sounded worse than my MicroPOG. The two octave feature was cool though. Could get some great guitar sounds with it. The Whammy also added a bunch of extra noise to my signal chain (poor bypass). It's been much quieter since I removed it from my board.

 

[whoatherechunk]

nver had my pog quit on me! i love it!

if you wanna go 2 octaves up (you do ) digitech whammy is the way to go. only other thing i know of that can do it is a pog, but sooner or later the pog will turn into a $300 kill switch, when it dies on you.

 

[NortyFiner]

Boss ME-50B multi is digital and can go one octave up or down.

 

[JimmyM]

I think the Whammy sounds good an octave up, but it's strictly for single notes. Try to play a chord and it's lost. But the Pog tracks everything, including chords. If you just need one octave, get the Micro Pog. It's way smaller and does octave up and down.

 

[theunknowndude]

ok just out of interest,... I have the whammy XP and the PS3,... the whammy was horrible, bad in the effects chain, little movement in the pedal between notes and horrible artifacts at anything above a 4th up,...

FWIW the PS3 is a cool pedal but hard to get rid of the chime like sound out of it,...

apart from the pitchfactor is there an alternative that wont make horrible artifacts/chimes when you go octave up/2 octaves up?

 

[gnasher1993]

The Foxrox Octron is worth a look but sounds best when the internal trim that controls gain is all the way up so it distorts. It can get some great guitar like sounds.

 

[RAM]

If you just need one octave, get the Micro Pog. It's way smaller and does octave up and down.

Another vote for the Micro POG if you can live with one octave up and one octave down. Mine hasn't quit on me - never seen a problem with it.

FWIW: Octave up is actually a harmonic function of distortion, and to my knowledge the only way to get an undistorted octave up is to get a digital model, which is what the POG is.

I've never tinkered with the HOG, but as recommended above, it's got more frequencies to select from than the POG, though it's twice the size.

 

[jgsbass]

Somewhere else in the effects forum, I saw a link to z.cat and the site had a number of interesting pedals with clips. They had clean octave up but no bass clip. Sounded clean on guitar