Most amazing Octave pedal?

[bifbangpow]

What is your favorite octave pedal to build?

Link to project layout?

[mth5044]

Which way octaves? How many? Clean or Fuzz?

[digi2t]

Octave up fuzz?

What the Fuzz?! Combination of T.E.'s Push me Pull you, with an LM386 thrown in for good measure. Absolute fuzz octave nasty goodness. Built it 5, maybe 6 years ago (might be longer), and it's still on my pedalboard.



My vero (part numbers follow the above layout);

[Mark Hammer]

I don't know if I'd call any octave pedal "amazing", but I've built a number of octave-up fuzzes and find the Foxx Tone Machine to be a satisfying build, with a reliably strong octave.

Unless it's a digital circuit,you can expect that audible octaving will be hard to get below the  7th fret or so.  It's the string properties, not the circuit.

[whoisalhedges]

I don't know if I'd call any octave pedal "amazing", but I've built a number of octave-up fuzzes and find the Foxx Tone Machine to be a satisfying build, with a reliably strong octave.

Unless it's a digital circuit,you can expect that audible octaving will be hard to get below the  7th fret or so.  It's the string properties, not the circuit.

I've never built a FTM, but have played a few (reissue Tone Machine, original Fuzz-Wha Machine - which is the FTM + wah) - and though I might not call them "amazing" octavers I would absolutely call them amazing pedals. In fact, that's pretty much why I haven't tried my hand at one: they're pretty much perfect as is.

"Perfect? But the octave isn't foot-switchable! Here, try this boutique clo-" SHUT UP IS YOUR BOUTIQUE CLONE COVERED WITH PURPLE FUZZ? I THINK NOT. So yeah, I'm a Tone Machine advocate for sure.

As far as amazing octavers go - there's always a tradeoff. It tracks poorly, or it distorts too much for your purposes, or you have something against digital. If digital's OK with you, the POG/HOG family is pretty decent. Is the suboctave on the Micro-Synth the same (basically) circuit as the Octave Multiplexer? If so, EHX does pretty well with octave down. So does BOSS, TBH.

An octave-up is gonna distort. In large part, your favorite upper-octave circuit is going to be the one whose fuzz you prefer. Scrambler, Blender, Tone Machine, Octavia - all got their own thing going on.

EQD's Bit Commander is a pretty nutz synth-style ^up and _down octave... and DOD made a couple of boxes in the '90s. One was a ring mod + distortion, called the "Gonkulator;" and the other was a 1 + 2 octaves down monster, the Meathook or something lol... DOD had the employees' children naming their pedals, I'm sure of it. Anyway, they were actually really good - not traditional in any sense, very "out of the box."

[Gus]

look for Pink Jimi Photons video of the octave up sick box (OUSB). 

Check the EH microsynth