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Fulltone Ultimate Octave - review!
I sold my Deja Vibe 2 (it wasn't really gellin' with me, ask me why if ya wanna know) and promptly used the $$ to buy a Fulltone Ultimate Octave pedal. I'd been looking for a good vintage-style octave pedal with some modern flavor to it and this REALLY hit the spot!
The Fuzz is thick and fat, and the tone control doesn't so much roll off high end as it does focus the mids in 2 different direction on extreme ends of the range. At 12'oclock it sounds clearest, the most defined, and the most neutral. The Bright switch gives it a kind of Big Muff sound, sort of. Like a happy-face EQ curve applied to the sound. I kept this thing on Fat the entire time.
The octave up function tracks REALLY well so you can play fastand get away with it and even works with power chords to get a fat, nasty, almost synthlike sound. One the more vintage sounding settings this thing just OOZES Jimi. On the regular, more modern settings it sounds like it's spitting bubbling acid right into the guitar lines. Fat, nasty, and out of control. Thumbs up!!
BTW for a good demo of this pedal in a more modern context (as it'll do the Jimi thing all day) check out Joe Satriani's main solo in "Crystal Planet" after the bass and drum breaks in the middle.
The Fuzz is thick and fat, and the tone control doesn't so much roll off high end as it does focus the mids in 2 different direction on extreme ends of the range. At 12'oclock it sounds clearest, the most defined, and the most neutral. The Bright switch gives it a kind of Big Muff sound, sort of. Like a happy-face EQ curve applied to the sound. I kept this thing on Fat the entire time.
The octave up function tracks REALLY well so you can play fastand get away with it and even works with power chords to get a fat, nasty, almost synthlike sound. One the more vintage sounding settings this thing just OOZES Jimi. On the regular, more modern settings it sounds like it's spitting bubbling acid right into the guitar lines. Fat, nasty, and out of control. Thumbs up!!
BTW for a good demo of this pedal in a more modern context (as it'll do the Jimi thing all day) check out Joe Satriani's main solo in "Crystal Planet" after the bass and drum breaks in the middle.
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