Members arcadesonfire Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Is there an octave pedal that puts a filter before the effect (but also sends an unflitered dry signal through in parallel) so that you can filter which frequency range gets the octave shift? The keyboardist/bassist in my band just quit so the drummer and i are going on as a duo for now. I need to add some fat and i want to get an octave-down pedal, and i think it would be awesome if i could only have the octave-down added to frequencies i play that are under 150 hz or something like that. That way, if i play a full chord, only sounds from the bottom strings would get the octave. Has anyone tried this? Could it work?? Or am i crazy? Would a low-pass filter that's only on the wet octave signal accomplish the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lanefair Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Boss OC-3. Its the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PKTrono Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Boss OC-3. Its the only one. this. you could kind of do it by splitting the signal and putting a LPF in front of the octave down, but the oc3 lets you set the range of pitches it will do (so you only get the root of the chord you play, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eti Posted July 12, 2012 Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Wire up a small pickup under the bass strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roughGo Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 I have a dod meat box and it works perfect for stuff like this. On guitar it only tracks the bottom two strings so it really fills the absence of a bass player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members |\|\|\ Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 Meat box is glorious. You can run the dry out to the rest of the pedals, then the wet out to a bass amp. Win/win. Edit: as far as finding one for cheap, see my avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 LOCAL H'D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 ^ and by that I mean a P bass half pickup installed under the bottom 2 strings, and a separate jack that runs that signal into an octave down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eti Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 ^ and by that I mean a P bass half pickup installed under the bottom 2 strings, and a separate jack that runs that signal into an octave down Yeah, that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 slanted between the guitar pickups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Urinate Forever Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 my understanding is that the OC-3 ONLY octave'd the lowest note in what u were playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arcadesonfire Posted July 13, 2012 Author Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 my understanding is that the OC-3 ONLY octave'd the lowest note in what u were playing That's a really good idea hangwire! Then the bass gets it's own amp too. Hopefully i could make that happen some day. I use a strat though and i don't want to lose any of its pickups, but I'll look into this. I'll go try an OC-3 and find out exactly what it does. It might for now. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 Strat version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted July 13, 2012 Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 Looks like it was routed for all 4 pickups at one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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