joegarcia

Mind you, this looks interesting: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fulltone-Ultimate-Octave_W0QQitemZ390107135112QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item5ad4327c88#ht_1832wt_1167"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fulltone-Ultimate-Oc...#ht_1832wt_1167[/url]

Depends what sort of sound you want really. The whammy sounds really digital and fake to me but lots of people like that. My favourite octave up is the Foxrox Octron. It does octave down as well as octave up and sounds lush. I've tried the POG, PS5, Whammy, Unibass, French Toast and probably more I can't remember and it's easily my favourite octave up pedal. Edit: Of course the Whammy does much more than just octave up which is all I needed.

[quote name='umph' post='623261' date='Oct 11 2009, 05:40 PM']head room also if your running big octave down effects in parallel or bass heavy fuzzs it'll eat into the headroom so it's easier on the amps to run them in parallel. Also you can eq them differently![/quote] Yea, this. Plus, it just sounds massive! Guess that once it's through the PA it might not make much difference but I like being able to treat each chain differently and have both going on independently behind me. As mentioned, both amps have a fair bit of character too I reckon.

Nah only really touring over in Europe at the mo, might get up that way eventually next year though.

I've been running two rigs for a while now and absolutely love it. I have a big board with lots of effects and use two Aguilar GS412's. I have a Sunn 1200s driving my 'bassy' rig and a 100w valve amp (changes round a bit at the moment) running my 'fx' rig. I split the signal at the start of the pedal board and have bassy distortions, fuzzes and octave down fx going into the Sunn and any quirky, noisy fx (wahs, ringmods, phasers reverbs, delays, synths etc) as well as an octave up running into the valve amp. This way I have a big solid state amp delivering crushing low end with lots of meaty headroom and the breakup of a valve amp at full tilt at the same time. Awesome. I think that having different fx (particularly if some are a bit 'out there') into separate amps creates an amazing array of textures and really works the kind of stuff I play.