Best polyphonc sub-octave pedal on the market?

[carrejans]

I'm looking for a good sub-octave pedal on the market.
The only one I tried is the EH POG2. (I just need it for suboctave, so if I will buy this, I will go for the micro-pog)

For me it needs to be:
- not too expensive
- accurate glitch-free polyphonic tracking
- latency as low as possible (this was the only thing I didn't like with the pog, it has a very small delay)

Is there a better alternative for the micro-pog?

Thanks...

[Mark Hammer]

If all you want is octave down, the Boss OC-3 is digital and polyphonic, and probably widely available 2nd hand once the owner gets bored.

[nocentelli]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I always understood that the OC3 worked a little differently to a POG. I though it was polyphonic in the sense that it doesn't glitch and fail to track properly, but it detects the lowest note in a chord and sub-octavates (ahem) that one note - I didn't think it added a sub to every note played into it like the pog/micropog. My brother-in-law is a solo acoustic guitarist, and gets a huge sound out of his guitar, but I'm pretty sure the whole guitar isn't being added transposed down an octave. Once again, I haven't played one, this is just how it was described to me, apologies if it's incorrect.

[phone-related spelling edit]

[Mark Hammer]

neither of us are right.  here's what the ProGuitarShops demo video says: Super Octave picks up where the OC-2 left of in terms of accuracy and variety of sub-octave tones. In addition to classic Boss Octaver sounds (1 & 2 octaves down), the OC-3 can be played with all strings in Polyphonic mode. The cutoff adjustment in Poly mode applies the octave effect to lower strings while higher frequencies are free to be played and chorded normally. Plus, the Boss OC-3 Super Octave incorporates an overdrive mode for powerful riffs and layered solos.

So, it would appear to be in between fully polyphonic, like the POG, and monophonic, like most pre-digital dividers are/were.  Even if it only provides sub-octaves for a few lower strings, rather than all strings, it still doesn't have a conniption the way an OC-2 or Rocktave would if one played more than a single note at once.

[wavley]

it still doesn't have a conniption the way an OC-2 or Rocktave would if one played more than a single note at once.

For those that don't know what a conniption is...

[nocentelli]

Proguitarshop demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EUsDB42bAs

Frustrating to watch, it's really hard to tell whether the poly mode is adding octave to more than one low string: Check out 1m35 though, you can hear the sub octave leaping up and down on a chord, but the drive sound might contribute to that perhaps.

Here it is on an acoustic, it only seems to add one low note on chords -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw