Octave Down Pedals for cheap $$$...Need help

[Elvis Fury]

Looking for a cheap to moderately priced octave down pedal. Just something basic, reliable, and good sounding. Thanks

 

[9520575]

EHX Pitchfork. $139 new

 

[stephen sawall]

Blue Box..... Might not track as tight as you want and is a fuzz.

 

[KoskineN]

You can buy a used Boss OC-3 for cheap.

 

[olejason]

Just get the Behringer clone of the OC-3. If you want a name brand get a Boss or Digistomp (with the OC-2 model).

 

[minty901]

Do you need polyphonic? For recording bass lines on guitar, the MicroPOG is terrible and sounds really chimey and not like a bass at all, but the MonoSynth patch on the Zoom ms50G (under $100 I think?) sounds much better and actually sounds prety much like a bass guitar. But it doesn't track chords and doesn't work perfectly well if you want to play fast.

 

[papersun]

You can buy a used Boss OC-3 for cheap.

This would be my suggestion also.

 

[elijah]

EHX Pitchfork. $139 new

Excellent choice IMHO. It can do 1,2,&3 octaves down, up, or both, plus other intervals. Easy to use. 2 knobs and a switch. Easily can do fake bass guitar, in a live setting. It loves fuzz both before and after. Sounds massive with a Fuzz Face and set to octave down.

 

[minty901]

Do you need polyphonic? For recording bass lines on guitar, the MicroPOG is terrible and sounds really chimey and not like a bass at all, but the MonoSynth patch on the Zoom ms50G (under $100 I think?) sounds much better and actually sounds prety much like a bass guitar. But it doesn't track chords and doesn't work perfectly well if you want to play fast.

I have to reply to myself here to correct what I said. Yes the MicroPOG sounds terrible for emulating a bass, and the Zoom ms50G MonoSynth sounds awesome and very close to the sound of a bass. But the Zoom does not track well at all. I was using it to record a bassline for a song yesterday and although it sounded very convincing, fairly often the note would completely **** up and switch up or down a semitone, totally out of tune. Bad tracking on that Zoom so I don't recommend it.

So now I'm looking for a good pedal to emulate a bass and the MicroPOG is definitely not it. Does anyone know if the Digitech Drop sounds like a bass? I know people will say it's never going to sound like a bass, but the Zoom actually does, so I want something that sounds that good and has good tracking. Could the Digitech Drop be it? or a boss?

 

[stephen sawall]

If you want to do bass lines..... Why not just buy a bass ?

 

[cuz/karl]

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