Boss OC-3 Octave/poly octave review ....

[MartyMart]

Well I know this isn't a "DIY" but it probably never will be, as its using the
Roland/Boss "COSM" modeling to "do it's stuff" !
It has the original -1 and -2 octaves of the OC-2 and they seem to track
a little better than on that version, play "cleanly" and use the neck pickup
- humbuckers seem to work better too.
It has a "Drive" mode, which gives an overdriven octave, with the original
guitar staying clean, quite nice, it's somewhere between Fuzz and distortion, better than I was expecting !
"Poly" mode is where it gets interesting you have to set the "range" to
about 2/3 rds and fine tune it to the gtr that your using, but I got 3 and 4
note chords to work quite well.
It seems to prefer the "middle" of the neck, top "E" notes dont come out
but it sounds nice almost everywhere else.
Go too low = doesn't work
Go too high = doesn't work
A bit of experimentation is needed, but I really like some of the tones and effects you can get, from "Fat bass" to "distorted grunge" and "synth"
tones .....
Draws 50Ma so a bit much for a battery to last more than 1 gig, I'd go
for a PSU with it.

If anyone's interested,  www.bonnersmusic.co.uk has them for £59 which
is the cheapest I could find in the UK  !!

Marty.

[DDD]

Hi MartyMart,
I've had some fun with DIY suboctavers and have to say they are very interesting gadgets.
At the same time there are only very few sound samples available on the Net that illustrate the suboctavers' abilities. I tried hard to find them but unsuccessfully except of couple non-impressive clips.
So could you please give some links to the sounds?