The above are part of the reasons I chose the Sub N Up.
It sounded the most natural for sure--I like a lot of what otehr octave pedals do--and some of them may work better for some.
But for me & what I do the Sub N Up worked the best.
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It sounded the most natural for sure--I like a lot of what otehr octave pedals do--and some of them may work better for some.
But for me & what I do the Sub N Up worked the best.
Second time i have bought it not long ago. I use it mainly for a bit of organish octave up/down tone, sometimes for octave down, rarely for its strange kind of detuner. Its blend is a winner. Sure, it can not replace my Bass Whammy, but i use them both very often, even together. And it works really good after my fuzzes, drives etc.
Pretty much the same here although I do use it to de tune as well. Seldom in a live situation (however this can also be a gig saver if you run into a broken string or equipment failure) but more for practice. So much easier to use the petal as opposed to grabbing another bass that's tuned to Eb.
Hi. I'm reviving an old thread here, my own. Today, a little gift to myself arrived in the mail. It's a mooer tender octaver mkII. It cost me 120$. I'd love to try it, but I don't have the necessary power supply (9V). I thought I did. Ah well, I'll get one tomorrow.
Got the wire, all is well.
I'm slightly disappointed, but I still like it. That was just an overexpecation.
When I thought of tracking, I only thought of tracking for octave downs. It turns out octave ups also have tracking limitations in the lower registers. It's strange that it never occurred to me. It only tracks down to the D string. From there it gets muddier.
Besides that, I love it.
I'm going to post a demo of the pedal on youtube very soon. When I was looking for videos of that pedal with bass, there was only one result. Most pedal videos are on guitar. I'll make one for bass for others.
@Felken Congrats!
I love my Tender Octaver (MkI).
As for the tracking, yes the low notes are what octavers, up-or-down, have trouble with.
Apparently more needed to be said from many people with diverse tastes, budgets and experiences.
Yes, you get a lot of overtones, but the "polyphonic" refers to its ability to play several notes at the same time, aka a chord, as opposed to arpeggiating a chord to play its notes monophonically, which is what you'd have to do with an analogue octaver.
I love my Tender Octaver (MkI).
As for the tracking, yes the low notes are what octavers, up-or-down, have trouble with.
Apparently more needed to be said from many people with diverse tastes, budgets and experiences.
Yes, you get a lot of overtones, but the "polyphonic" refers to its ability to play several notes at the same time, aka a chord, as opposed to arpeggiating a chord to play its notes monophonically, which is what you'd have to do with an analogue octaver.
just out of interest hows your signal going into the octave? straight in from bass? sometimes throwing on a comp will help pre octave. i use a digitech richocet for the octave up stuff that tracks my low c.
for octave down weirdness i use either a mxr sub machine or very recently the eqd data corrupter they both sound massive and actually dnt track all that badly have to play with a softer touch and higher up the neck but hey.
Yeah, straight to bass. I put my other EQ settings after. Octave is the first in the chain.
Cool the muddiness is probs not being caused by the octave up but by your clean sound not sitting right.
I had this with a few octaves it's actually why for some I play in the higher register and let an octave down keep the lows with a drive or fuzz after it sounds more natural to me.
Same here, I've settled on an EBS Octabass in the low setting to add a subharmonic under my higher register playing. Some analog octavers have a really growly midrange that just stands out too much, but this is perfect for just making higher notes sound beefier yet natural. It can track pretty much every note just fine except the low open E and B strings, fretted notes down to C# on the B string are all solid. I've tried a few digital octavers, Bass Whammy, Tender, etc, but I can feel the latency and much prefer the immediacy of analog.
