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I seem to be pretty much in agreement with what others have said. My list of favourite to least favourite that I've used: Aguilar Octamizer: This is my favourite for adding a natural/subby tone, and the 'tone' control on clean is useful. It doesn't hold sustained notes very well though so you need to play accordingly. MXR M288: My current Octaver, I have owned two at different times without noticing any low-end warbling when not playing so perhaps they fixed that or it's dependant on your setup (or my ears aren't good enough!). It sounds nearly as good as the Octamizer for the subby side of things and probably tracks slightly better but still needs to be played a bit differently to normal playing, I like the way it can also do quite a decent version of that OC-2 more synthy type sound, and the mid boost is useful when feeding into an envelope filter or distortion/fuzz. Relatively small, well built/reliable and reasonably priced. Helix: Tracks really well and you can select how much for it to pitch both up and down. C4/Spectrum do an excellent job of tracking and decent tones but somehow didn't feel quite as good character of the tones as the Aguilar or MXR and not as easy to make changes as the Helix without phone/laptop plugged in. POG or Sub n Up: Track well but I didn't like the tones of these, but that can be masked if you are using other pedals after them. I'll be giving an OC-5 a try once they're available again (or an Octabvre if they ever become available) so perhaps it will replace the MXR. The only ones I wouldn't really recommend are the POG and Sub n Up as I don't like their Organ type sounds, I guess some people like that though and it's all subjective.

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Bought a pedal from Sam and it arrived quickly and exactly as described - all good. Thanks!

It's a bit all over the place but there are adverts here https://www.facebook.com/groups/bassplayersavailable/?ref=share

It seems that https://www.joinmyband.co.uk might have a bit more stuff going on.

Thanks to @dannybuoywith speedy service of less than 24hrs between payment and delivery I'm now on my 4th MXR M82 and this time I'll keep it! Short story: The MXR M82 has ended my search for bandpass up-sweep filters....but the quest for lowpass and down-sweep filters continues. Long story: On my 4th M82 I think I've finally realised why I keep getting rid of them then going back; there are other filters out there that sound better or have more filter tones or perhaps even do the specific bandpass and sweep up thing better but I think the M82's real strength is down to the extra control it gives so can do things like use it as an 'always on' pedal by setting the sensitivity and decay low to get a dubby tone and use the separate clean + filter volumes to just mix a little bit of it in, or run the sensitivity higher but with the Q low and low filter volume to have a very subtle 'quack' mixed into your clean tone which is useful if doing things like feeding into distortion. Or the usual more obvious full-on filter sound is decent enough - but it's big strength is that it's very dynamic/responsive because you can dial in just the right sensitivity and clean blend etc. so it feels very connected to what you're playing (an issue I've had with few pedals is a subtle disconnect - perhaps latency or taking out the playing dynamics? ...the M82 doesn't have that.)

I go from pedals into a Allen & Heath Xone 23 DJ mixer and out of KRK Rockit 6 monitors (or headphones). Can play along to records or phone/laptop (and use 3 band EQ per channel, also has LPF and HPF) and the mixer has a built-in soundcard so can record to Laptop via USB.

Bought a pedal from Dan in the afternoon and it arrived the next morning all well and as described. Thanks!

That's Possibly my favourite Aswad tune, along with:

My Filter up+down sweep shopping list is: Wonderlove, 00Funk, Micro-tron IV, Maxon AF-9. Unfortunately, other than the AF-9 none seem easily available from shops and the AF-9 is fairly pricy at £184. At that price, on paper it's hard to argue against a Spectrum that's actually slightly cheaper (£182) other than the fact that I owned one and there's something I can't quite put my finger on but it didn't do it for me, perhaps it's the interface or perhaps it's a bit too controlled/tame/predictable (that's what I thought about the EBS too). Plus, it's very tempting to then spend another £100+ on additional control to get more presets without having your phone/laptop plugged in.

I guess it all depends on setup but I found it uncontrollably loud and peaky, needed a compressor after it. Good fwonky sounds though.

I like Beringer stuff but as their pedals are about £20 new with free postage and returns I'm not too inclined to buy second hand just to save £10 (if that) with little buyer protection, especially as they aren't made with build quality and longevity as their #1 priority (although I've never had one break).

The Boss RC-3 is quite easy to use and has 10 simple drum tracks you can play along to and change the tempo of (I also ended up filling mine with about 50 different drum loops to play along to - can do this by importing .wav files or via aux in and as you can overdub you can still record your Bass over the top) it's small, tough, and they were about £120 new and quite common so you should be able to pick one up second hand for less than £80. A slight issue is I'm not sure how easy they are to get new now as they've been superseded by the RC-5 which looks better (including longer memory, 50 drum tracks) but is £160 new.

Me (and my neighbours) are currently listening to The Bug 'Pressure'

...actually I just tried it and it's a push to say it's fine on the low E, it will only play it without warbling about for about a second. The MXR and Aguilar Octavers are the best sounding ones I've used but playing style does need to be adapted to get the best out of them. I think sub-consciously I've kind of learned to play a bit differently when using them by not playing long sustaining notes below a certain point and to only play clean/solid notes, minimise fret noise and harmonics and anything other than the one note, no slap/pop, the same sort of techniques are needed with synth pedals. I find putting some distortion or envelope filter after the octaver (or synth) helps to disguise the wobbles/glitchyness. Digital ones will stop the wobbly/glitchyness but I don't think they sound as good, this video is good (7mins onward is about analogue tracking).

Pachyman is worth a listen

I'm not sure about that, yes- the song is made up of lots of simple parts working together but it is the Bass that is prominently repetitively driving it all along throughout as other parts come and go, I'd go as far to say say that song is a classic example of a Bass driven song.

I have an MXR M288 and find it can track right down to the low G well, and can even sound fine on the low E but isa bit of a muddy rumble. It's glitchy on the G string though but I think that's my Bass signal (slight fret buzz or harmonics) as it's not glitchy on the same notes on other strings. I think it's down to what others have said, basically it needs to be fed a clean signal, the glitching is it playing harmonics and fret rattle etc. It needs: loud signal, first in chain, clean playing, and I have quite a high action on strings.