Boss OC-2 mods for better tracking???? IC's????

[AC30Dirty]

Hey guys, I picked up a mint condition BOSS OC-2 Octave pedal from Japan on ebay about maybe a month ago. I really like what the pedal does. I was wondering though how I could maybe improve the tracking? The pedals does riffing PERFECTLY a la Tim Mahoney (311) and Mike Einzinger (Incubus) but, I would like to let some notes ring out with out the note jumping around. I was wondering if the IC's could be upgraded? There's seven in the pedal right now.... 2x SHARP IR9022 771D, 3x SHARP IR9022 784C, 1x MN4013B 6D.7 and 1x BA634 803 059. Im not to experienced with IC's other than TS9 chips so i don't really know what these would do in the pedal. Would any equivalent IC's improve the pedal??? Or, would something else work??? Any info would help. Thanks

[Gus]

Changing chips will most likely not help at all.   Have you checked the EBS one? 

[MartyMart]

I use a technique which IIRC , was suggested by Mark Hammer when using octave devices, which is to stick a
compressor before it, to increase the signal and provide some sustain before the octave circuit.
Seems to work quite well and will stabilize the tracking a bit .
MM

[Processaurus]

The OC-2 and other analog octavers seem to only work even marginally well with the neck pickup.  Also you may see if it tracks better with a bit of a boost before it, if your guitar is below the volume the circuit is expecting.

I'd like to see a compressor in the sidechain (the part that does the pitch detection) get tried sometime, I think that would really help.  One of the analog devices compressor on a chip or a compander chip would be ideal, nothing fancy.