Octave Up/Down Dual Pedal

[RBOD]

I've been thinking about this and reading around this site gave me enough motivation to go after this. I want to build a pedal that's basically an up octave and a down octave pedal built into one case kind of like an MXR Double Shot pedal. I'm just wondering what two octave pedals sound alike enough to use in the same box? I was thinking about using the Blue Box for the down but not sure on the up octave. Just looking for opinions. Thanks.

[jmusser]

Well, Here's my two cents anyway. I have built the Blue Box, and it's tracking isn't all that great. When I go from a SS Amp to a Tube amp, it won't track at all. In my experience, Joe Davisson's Shocktave does a lot better job. With that, I would add Tim Escobedo's Octup Blender, and I believe you'd have a good match. I'm not saying that the Blue Box sucks, because I kind of like the fact that it doesn't track true everytime, just for the weirdness factor, but I wouldn't want it's weirdness mixed in with an up octave that I wanted it to track together with. The Octup Blender just happens to have the thickest up octave fuzz of any of the 7 or 8 up octaves I've built. I believe you'd be happy with this mix. Like I said, my two cents.

[Marcos - Munky]

Also, Tim Escobedo's Pushme Pullyou is a great and simple octave up. The Shin Ei Octave is the best octave down effect I've heard, but didn't built one to try yet.

[RBOD]

awesome. just the kind of input i wanted. anybody else?

[Processaurus]

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=58609.0

boss octave divider, tracks much better than the blue box (which isn't really fair, since the blue box is advertised as tracking really bad).

There is an octave up fuzz hidden in there, but it is super fuzzy.  For a more normal (though still crazy and distorted sounding) octave up I'd just make a Dan Armstrong Green Ringer.  That with the boss would make something pretty close sounding to a Mu-tron octave divider.

You could feed the green ringer from the lo-pass filter section in the beginning of the bosses fundamental extractor, to get both gain and a cleaner, more obvious octave up.

[puretube]

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=33038.0
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=35335.0

[oldrocker]

How about a Shocktave octave down with a Neoctvia octave up in the same enclosure and toggling between them.  Just a thought.