Isolate the octaves on their own with the press of a button and access 8 easy to recall presets.Īn unusual but affordable take on the polyphonic octaver featuring knobs for sub-octave, upper octave, dry signal and also modulation – a rather fast one, whose speed is fixed. Like its predecessors, The OC-5 is polyphonic and the variable Range knob restricts the effect to only the lower notes on an instrument, perfect for playing octave bass lines alongside normal chords and melodies in the higher registers.Ī deluxe version of the POG, the POG2 comes with 2 blendable octaves up and 2 octaves down, as well as an attack control, low pass filter with selectable Q, and a detune control for subtle or extreme pitch bend. The main new features include a Vintage mode (which faithfully recreates the mono sound of the OC-2), polyphonic enhancements, an octave-up feature for extended range, and improved tracking technology for accurate playability with no latency. Keeping this in mind, we organized the categories in the article in the following way:īoss was the first to launch a compact octave pedal back in 1982, the OC-2, of which the OC-5 is an evolution. And although the pedals listed in this article are clean pitch shifters, stacking them with a fuzz or a distortion can yield awesome results.Ĭlean octave pedals can be organized in several categories, like octave-up and both octave up and down (purely octave-down stompboxes are more rare and normally reserved for bass) but also monophonic and polyphonic, with the latter able to reproduce more than one note at a time. If you are looking for the latter, please check out our guides to the Octavia, Super Fuzz and Foxx Tone Machine, and the list of all the new releases in the blog’s Octave Up Fuzz category.Īdding an octave effect to your rig can dramatically change your tone in fun and exciting ways: it can add a layer of heaviness to a power chord, create spacey synth-like melodies, bring blistering intensity to a fuzzy solo, or even turn your guitar into some kind of organ. This article focuses on clean octavers – not octave-up-style fuzzes. Welcome to our guide to the best octave pedals. I would try a POG and a few other digital pitch shifter pedals in a shop before buying - they have a pretty distinctive sound (can be warbly, bell like, delayed attach) which you might not like.Updated Jun. Having said that, I would probably just EQ the octave up part with my ears - what might work for the bass might not work for the octave up part even after doubling the frequency of the EQ bands. One advantage is that they can pitch shift chords. Some work by splitting the signal into separate buckets for different frequency components, then recombining the buckets at different frequencies - that's how I imagine the POG and other pitch shifting pedals work. They have their own pros and cons and audible side effects. There are several algorithms for digital pitch shifting.
Playing chords also tends to sound pretty nasty using an analog octaver.
However, a bass signal isn't a sine wave, and flipping the signal like this causes distortion. These typically use a diode rectifier to flip the negative part of the waveform so that it becomes positive, so (for a simple sine wave) you get two positive cycles for the original one positive and negative cycle. There are a few analog octave up effects (Pearl OC7, Mutron Octave Divider). However making a circuit or algorithm to do that is not simple. Yes, an octave up is double the fundamental frequency.
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