EskimoBassist

From personal experience, I've found a simpler octave pedal, like the MXR BOD, Boss OC-2 or the Aguilar Octomizer, is more suited to Rock music, with other more complicated harmony structures given rise to by the POG2 more suitable in an electronica outfit. Playing with just one octave below your original signal really fills out your parts and provides depth and presence in passages where you might have been lost in the mix before, such as during a heavier chorus or breakdown section. Plus the one to the above though, maybe consider a Chorus or Delay pedal? They're both hella fun! Although if I were you, I'd be looking at buying a compressor or more importantly a Pre/DI, like a Sansamp or a MXR M-80.

More than anything, I find Wolstenholme's material very fun to play. He's no bass god or virtuoso, but he knows how to write strong, inventive and very energetic parts which compliment the band really well. Top notch player in my opinion.

As said, traditionally, especially with a pedal as sensitive as an analogue octaver, it is considered best to put it towards the front of the chain - to send it as pure a signal as possible to aid its' tracking ability, either that or after a compressor, which helps too.

I'm also thinking about making the same transition - considering a G&L 2500 Tribute, wonderful bass! Also, HappyJack, I've just had a nosey through your gear pictures frm your signature, you've owned a lot of Basses in your time! Some very beautiful instruments indeed, ever regret selling some of them on?

SO good, the perfect break that I needed from my essay, which is SLOWLY KILLING ME ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

What about an Ashdown Little Bastard?

With such an abundance of OC-2's on this forum, I feel very much like a fraud and a sham, but hell, I really like my OC-3!

Many other very popular pedals have equally irritating flaws, but they continue to be used regardless because they sound so good! My Korg G5 has TERRIBLE bypass, but I don't mind slabbing it in a true bypass loop to get rid of the problem. Admittedly the volume spike problem sounds like a troublesome issue, but modding it wouldn't cost the earth or be that much of an inconvenience, nor would buying a cheap Behringer Limiter. There's plenty of clones out there though which have fixed the problem, if you can't be bothered with having another pedal on your board you could always swap it for something similar?

That sounds like a truly magical evening, I must admit to feeling rather jealous reading your account of it!

I purchased a Fulltone Bass Drive off Ross a week or so ago now, came very quickly, packaged with care and most importantly, it sounds fantastic! Would happily deal with him again. Cheers mate, Rich.

Modded Digitech Bad Monkey. Super cheap too!

[quote name='I am not excane' post='1077003' date='Jan 4 2011, 04:01 AM'][/quote] I LIKE THIS A LOT.

The Fulltone Bass Drive might be right up your alley as well. Very popular pedal, especially as it has two channels.

In the same vein, I've just seen a Zoom Ultra Fuzz listed on ebay for £160 - I bought mine for £40 and one recently sold on here for 35!

Very nice sounding pedal, pretty natural - far less modern and metallic sounding than the Boss CEB-3. It does lack a clean blend, I'm partial to basically 100% Chorus anyway so it didn't bother me, although there is a little lowend loss - but considering it was primarily made as a guitar pedal, it's pretty expected. Could always pop it in a cheap blend loop if it irked you enough.

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31123&d=1142178071"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.p...mp;d=1142178071[/url] Bit of an old one but I gather he still uses the same stuff, [url="http://www.biffierthanthou.com/archives/equipment/index.html"]this website[/url] suggests the following, although this was circa '05: "Pedals: sansamp bass driver, line selector, boss overdrive, DC power box, Boss tuner, Apparently, there's also a colorsound superfuzz in there too." Hope that's of some help, I'm sure I saw a more recent picture though...

Not sure about the Wah settings, so to speak, on the Auto Wah, but the more traditional funky envelope sounds are meant to be pretty good on it. And no, it wouldn't have to be the official Roland pedal that you used with it for expression control.

As said above, in a recent poll, the OC-2 (Analogue) and the OC-3 (Digital) won by a country mile. Big fan of the Octamizer and the BOD too though. I bought an OC-3, never looked back.

Use a compressor for that squishy, compressed sound and boost your highs and lows and reduce mids to your liking for a scooped sound. If you want a proper sparkly 80's sound, add a dab of chrous too.