Octave mod?

[paguitarist]

Okay so I was wondering would there be any way to take the octave section from the octavia and add it to a different distortion, so that I can have that interesting octave sound, just with a different pedal?

[caress]

the best thing to do is just lop the octave portion off and try it!  i take portions of different circuits pretty often and frankenstein my own ideas together with varying results.  for example, i made two octavias:

the first had a big muff input amplifier preceding the octavia circuit and the muff tone portion/recovery amplifier following the octavia.  what i got was an octavia with tons of volume (a little too much...) a good tone control and the ability to overload it into self-oscillation.

the second was exactly the same, but i tried the foxx tone machine tone section instead of the big muff.  (i really like the tone control from the foxxtone.  very versatile IMO)  here, the tone control was very subtle, almost unusable...  i always learn a lot by trying things like this out, though;  about the original pedal's design, understanding what each portion of a circuit does, figuring out in general what does and doesn't work and why...

[Ben N]

Caress:
I have long wondered how a Muff-Octave would turn out, never quite got around to it. I'm not clear: how much of the muff did you use, just the first boost stage or either/both the clipping stages too? What about the Sustain control?

Thanks,
Ben

[caress]

for the octo-muff i used only the input stage, the tone control and the tone recovery stage from the muff.  essentially just a booster in front and a tone control at the end.  the boost can make the octavia go kind of crazy sometimes in not the best ways if it pushes hard enough - note, it's tough to turn up the boost past 10 o'clock or so with the octavia engaged as well...if i made it again, i might leave off the muff front end.  for that project though, i can use the boost alone so it's still very useful, more a 2-1 pedal.

[Ben N]

Could also be a 3- or 4-in-1 if you use a DPDT to switch between the regular Muff clipping sectios and the Octavia, and also to select one Muff clipping section and two. I think the BMP is a great platform for a switchamatic booster/distortion/fuzz--and now octave! Thanks.