Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

[briggleman]

All of my gig playing usually means plugging my acoustic straight into the mixer or when on electric, going into my RP1000 then out to the mixer into the PA. The band plays songs from the LemonHeads to Johnny Cash, Tom Petty to Beatles. I play mostly strum along keeping the background full. My personal taste in music goes back to YES and ELP along with RUSH and Dream Theater. Black Sabbath is in there but love the Beatles too. Eclectic is my favorite word.

My personal time, bedroom guitar playing involves all kinds of experimentation. My bedroom floor is covered in pedals and cables. I am intrigued by the Electro Harmonix POG 2. I know about the HOG but that is way over the top....maybe

Are there any others out there that I should look at? There is no budget but I need to be reasonable.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

My recommendation? If you have more than one guitar, string one up in Nashville tuning. When combined with a guitar in standard, it creates a really cool kind of 12-string effect that has a natural chorusing going on due to the intonation differences between guitars.

It adds a great chime to guitar parts for doubling or even solo strumming!

The electric parts after the intro are doubled standard/Nashville-tuned guitars ...

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

Be unreasonable an buy my Foxrox Octron II.









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[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

Well...I read your post 3 times and I have no idea what you want.

What kind of octave do you want?

Up?

Down?

Both?

If up so you want those clean digital POG style octave up sounds or do you want the analog, fuzzy Hendrix sounds??

What is it for?

[briggleman]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

EXPERIMENTATION, having fun, just for the hell of it. I want flexibility and good tracking. Yes, up and down and together. The EHX HOG seems fun too but requires a few other EHX pedals to get full functionality, so the POG2 looked a little less formidable in usage.

Just wanted to find out if there are any other polyphonic octave pedals (chord and single note tracking required) out there by other manufactures that I should look at.

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

EXPERIMENTATION, having fun, just for the hell of it. I want flexibility and good tracking. Yes, up and down and together. The EHX HOG seems fun too but requires a few other EHX pedals to get full functionality, so the POG2 looked a little less formidable in usage.

Just wanted to find out if there are any other polyphonic octave pedals (chord and single note tracking required) out there by other manufactures that I should look at.

Since you want a standard octave up and you want it to be polyphonic EH is really about your only bet.

[Lazarus1140]

Re: Looking to purchase an octave pedal...HELP

Since you want a standard octave up and you want it to be polyphonic EH is really about your only bet.

Yep.