tayste_2000

Comparison of various Octavers

An early Cog T-16

Sonicake Octaver

MXR Bass Octaver Deluxe

Pearl OC07

Zoom MS60b Bass Octaver

Zoom MS60b+ Analog Bass Octaver

My thoughts.

For those that don’t know the Pearl OC07 is the original Jojo Mayer Nerve octaver. It sounds identical (as these old pedals can) to a Boss OC2. The Sonicake Octaver is an OC2 clone. When I compared it to an OC2 I couldn’t hear the difference and once again here, not trying to destroy the resale of my pedals I can’t hear it either.

The Cog is quite unique sounding compared to everything else and has to be felt to be believed.

The MXR is the most versatile but the so are both of the Zooms. It has some noise when idling but doesn’t appear to come across in the videos (at least until I add layers and layers of gain)

Once you put these in a synth chain most of the differences disappear.

I’ll be keeping the Sonicake (because they are so cheap they aren’t worth selling), probably the MXR as I find it the most musical and varied and then both Zooms because the MS60b isn’t worth very much and the MS60b+ is really really impressive.

If I was playing a lot of synth focused music, I’d keep the Cog and have it next to a Sonicake or MXR Vintage Bass Octaver and then the MXR BOD if I was doing any blended with clean stuff.

Anyway, enjoy

12 minutes ago, krispn said:

The deco feels like the perfect ‘The Cure’ pedal!

That’ll be my evening playing Cure songs and then it’ll never get sold 🙄

35 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

I love the look of those Boss boards. Such a good design and in a world of Schmidt Arrays it's just good simple engineering. 

 

Are you using the deco as a chorus/flanger or as a drive? 

Mainly as the doubling, so maybe lightly into flange territory. I’m thinking I’m probably going to sell it and try the El Capistan or the Chroma Console.

But I’ve never heard a modulation pedal as capable as the subtle doubling/thickening this does.

Almost a faux stereo space, just adds a bit of air.

The subtly would be wholly lost live but this board is all about subtle variations on a theme to keep playing along to tracks interesting.

51 minutes ago, jimbobothy said:

… use Dual Lock as the adhesive is acrylic based, not alien space snot that is on all Velcro. Dual Lock is made by reasonable people who know our pain of Velcro!

 

Yes but the blisters pulling it off 😅

I've got dual lock ready to go on to it, but this board has had 27 configurations this week alone and I’m still not convinced by the Capo and Deco.

Todays

Still messy as it took me several days to remove the gunk from the old velcro, so I’m now afraid to recommit.

14 minutes ago, dannybuoy said:

Is there really much of a difference between mk1 and mk2?

I sold my original, missed it, picked up a mk2 again after a gap, so never got to A/B them.

I have no idea but I always heard the mk2 didn’t have the baked in bass boost of the MK1

I categorically can not get the V to sound identical to the mk1, they’re close, similar ballpark, definitely based on the same topology but can’t get them identical.

That said as long as I don’t turn the mk1 on the V is great, just the mk1 is easier to get the sound I love out of it.

Got a few more low gain drives to work through anyway. They’ll probably all stay as it’s all far more fun than octaves, filters and other wacky stuff.

52 minutes ago, daveybass said:

I’ve just bought one this morning, will let you know how it is

You let me know if you don’t like it 😉

Well I bought the Diamond Compressor 😅 

The mk1 is totally a keeper but I’d love to try the mk2 and the ge version.

Also got a DCX incoming so something sooner or later will emerge as a clear winner.

On 04/06/2025 at 01:28, 0175westwood29 said:

 

After a mare of a practice where the kemper wasn’t happy wanted to not rely on with the midi side of things 

 

so I’m switching from the kemper controller to the Morningstar mc6 and I’ll run the midi out to switch a few things on the kemper in time 

 

obviously it will work well with the ML10x under the hood 

 

the sl20 was a pog 2 but it’s poorly pattern trem after fuzz sounds cool 

If it helps, this looks much better without the Kemper controller on it 😇

Still really conflicted on this pedal.

Firstly stacked with the MK1 into it, it’s awesome but I’m finding the MK1 is the most amp like (in feel and how it reacts) pedal I own. It’s basically a dirty compressor for me currently

The MkV will go more or less completely clean so I’ve definitely got the one most suited to what I want to do.

The problem is probably more it’s sat on a board with a Punchline, Capo and the MK1. The Mk1 just has some real mojo I’m loving and the Punchline and Capo are easier to dial in the eq than the MkV.

So who knows, it’s for sale and trade at the moment but only for the right deal, I could see this happily sitting on a small board/pedal riser ala @Chadu25 😅

The Diamond comp is really tempting for said small board

Don’t want to just sell these but interested to see whats available out there.

Pearl OC07 - £120

SGFX Beta V

Jad Freer Capo - Deal Pending

Strymon Deco V2 - £260

Cog (early) T16 - Deal Pending

Mojohand 442 Blue Filter - £90

Mojohand 442 Red Filter - £90

Radial Stagebug SB-2 Passive DI - £60 

Looking for

Shift Line Olympic MKIII - Sourced

Kasleder Albatross

Darkglass Anagram

Hologram Chroma Console

Peterson Strobostomp HD

Walrus Audio Canvas Tuner

Mono Lite/+ with matching Tick in that blueish grey colour they do

But open to anything interesting but I do mean interesting.

I’m out of the country until around the 20th (June) so will be finalising deals around then. Happy to add cash where applicable.

Also happy to do some temporary trades if you have something I want to try and I have something you want to try for a bit.

5 minutes ago, lee650 said:

Im afraid not Ste.

But I have everything, surely you want a little piece of everything 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😅

After anything in trades?

Just checking you all know this is a Sansamp clone right? Not that that matters, just think it’s useful information if you’re ever shopping around for something similar.

3 hours ago, daveybass said:

I do like the Albatross as well…oof

Also a good choice

On 16/05/2025 at 11:04, daveybass said:

They all sound great, I think the bass sound on Mean Mr Mustard is probably where I’d like it to be

Kasleder Freaky Stone, GE based fuzz face designed/optimised for bass, specifically shortscale hollowbodies with flats.

I bought a ticket for the Janek and IMA event, but unfortunately I won’t be able to attend so if anyone wants it fire me a message and it’s yours

GONE NOW

36 minutes ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

.I don't have mine to hand, but I believe you can simply control the external music volume on the playback device itself. No need for a mixer in the Katana Go.

Correct just turn your phone, tablet or computer up and down to suit.

The volume of the device on the nux and boss will increase the instrument and device but then you just nudge it down on the device as well.

Its worth noting that the NUX Pro has quite a heavy bass boost on Bluetooth audio going into the device.

The new Boss Katana Go is exactly the same as the old one except the volume knob was removed after fender bought all the stock for their Mustang thing. So boss had to redesign and now it has some buttons or a dial on the side. But the rest of the device is the same and both versions are supported and work with the app.

I feel I’ve done exceptionally well here selling anyone reading on my NUX MP3 for sale 😇

Shameless plug

Personally the Boss Katana Go is better than either. The MP2 sounds better than the Pro to me but the volume control only being in the app made me get the Pro.

The pro slowly removed any joy out of playing bass, it doesn’t sound bad, like not that you go oh I hate this, but you find you don’t enjoy playing much with it took me a few months to realise what the problem was. I didn’t have this with the MP2 but as above and even though I’m selling one, Boss Katana Go is much better and the Darkglass Element is better still but faffier to just noodle when you feel like it.

Apparently there will be some available in europe but thats just from a random forum post I saw

On 21/05/2025 at 00:33, tayste_2000 said:

It’s not one yet but it will be.

 

I have a Boss BCB1000, PT Nano and a Ghostfire Mono Lite+ copy.

 

I’m hopeful that one will become a board and stay that way for more than 5 minutes

So after a night of messing around it’s likely going to end up as this.

But I need to play around with it all a lot more before I commit anything to velcro.

I figure the zvex and kasleder can just be fun pedals I stick in front of the board running batteries as and when I feel like it.

2 hours ago, jimbobothy said:

… but more likely this 😆

 

https://www.cogeffects.co.uk/antwright.php

Correct I’m currently borrowing it from @Ant_On_Bass as I had some ideas I wanted to try.

On 10/05/2025 at 23:44, simonbrown92 said:

I’ve always struggled with a decent distorted tone when using my active basses, I’ve got a Spector rebop 5 string and an Ibanez SR2600, and they both sound like they’re being water boarded when I step on my boss ODB-3. My Ibanez can switch between passive and active and sounds great in passive. I’ve read threads on hear about impedance issues and radial dragsters being the fix, problem is they seem to be discontinued so my question is does anyone have an alternative solution? Do I need to change pedals? Is there an alternative to the dragster? Does anyone have one to sell?

 

 

cheers 

Unlikely to help, I had one, can’t remember what I did with it but it didn’t help. In active mode just try rolling the volume back and see if that helps.

This is how you’ll know if it’s an impedance issue or you’re hitting the pedal with too hot of a signal. It’s more likely the latter as Boss are buffered pedals so the input impedance isn’t as important as if it was a vintage fuzz.

It’s not one yet but it will be.

I have a Boss BCB1000, PT Nano and a Ghostfire Mono Lite+ copy.

I’m hopeful that one will become a board and stay that way for more than 5 minutes

Great little headphone amp, just redundant for me as I have a Boss Katana Go and 2 Darkglass Elements and a Camden EC1 and and and.

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