A Series of Utterly Pointless Pedal Demos

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This week, the ZeroFive Audio Lowrider and the Sushibox FX Neptunium. Pointless in a different way to my 442 comparison where both pedals were discontinued around 10 years ago, both of these are out of stock (almost constantly), produced in very small batches when they are produced and then subject to import duties and shipping from France or the US.

 

But anyway, maybe this will kill your gas for either of them.

 

 

Was going to just make a post for this video, but best to have a thread lumping these all together as I think I’ll be making more of them.

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442 Video so it’s all in one place

 

 

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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

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A really pointless one but I have 2 settings I like on the Deco. I’m not a huge fan of the saturation, it’s nice but everything on my board is Saturation so it’s just redundant but the modulation is a really nice subtle doubler that gives a nice space to things, or this really musical pitchy warble.

 

Anyway, I tried to recreate it in something cheaper.

 

 

I’m very concerned that I’ll be able to recreate my whole board in a pedal I bought for £65 😅