Octave Fuzz pedals

[tuffteef]

so ive come into some cash and im going to buy my first devi pedal im lookin at the 95 dimes range
im lookin for an octave fuzz up or down gained out and good with chords i was lookin at the gz ,noctavia,and disaster fuzz but from the youtube videos ive watched im not sure. id say the gz but thats only cause i like the kitty cat graphics lol... anyone got any suggestions?

[Roseweave]

The SM does octavia type fuzz when you crank the intensity, but it's very noisy like. Luckily, you can just pull the volume knob back a bit and it goes quiet again. Kind of cool for switching between the two different sounds.

The GZ would be best for a "Proper" Octavia Fuzz.

[royaltrux]

As far as devi ever pedals go, I would go with GZ.

I love the destructo noctavia, but it really doesn't work with chords. I do it on occasion, but only for freak out parts. The thing is totally insane!

GZ is much more mellow -- you can get a more intense tone if you turn it up, but you'll do better at lower settings.

You also might try checking out the dunlop hendrix octave fuzz (now discontinued) -- (in my opinion) one of the best octave fuzzes you can get, and it is cheap as hell.

[tuffteef]

is that the black hendrix system octave fuzz pedal your talking about?

[CBGB]

The Catalinbread Ottava Magus is pretty cool for c. $120...

[Communarchy]

You also might try checking out the dunlop hendrix octave fuzz (now discontinued) -- (in my opinion) one of the best octave fuzzes you can get, and it is cheap as hell.

He's referring to the dunlop Octavia reissue/replica. It's part of the hendrix replica series. I second that. It is fucking awesome. Lower gain than most would expect, but boy does it sound awesome with chords.

[Blurillaz]

is that the black hendrix system octave fuzz pedal your talking about?

MXR(?) issued Jimi Hendrix signature pedals a while ago.

[tuffteef]

yeah i was thinkin bout those cause they come up cheap on the bay sometimes
maybe one of those and a little big muff would do right finding one of those hendrix pedals though is tough

[Blurillaz]

yeah i was thinkin bout those cause they come up cheap on the bay sometimes
maybe one of those and a little big muff would do right finding one of those hendrix pedals though is tough

But Sonic Youth uses it

[metalmariachi]

There is the Voodoo labs Proctavia, more expensive, but very nice, and the Foxx tone machine.
I think there is a tone machine in the B/S/T threads.

MM

[tuffteef]

yeah i was thinkin bout those cause they come up cheap on the bay sometimes
maybe one of those and a little big muff would do right finding one of those hendrix pedals though is tough

But Sonic Youth uses it

yeah kim and thurston use the jimi fuzz
but u need another pedal to boost it and send it crazy

[royaltrux]

Yeah -- the black box is the one I was referring to, NOT the white "octavia" reissue.

Though it looks like an MXR pedal it is technically made by Dunlop. They discontinued it when they stopped making MXR sized pedals under the dunlop name and so they could bring out the cheese wedge.

Frankly, to me both sound pretty similar. But the black box Hendrix is less than half the price.

Cheese Block = $170 = http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=151066

Hendrix Octave Fuzz goes for somewhere between $50-70 or so.

It's your call -- all of the above are excellent pedals. The only problem you might run into is that there may be no way for you to check out GZ or the black Hendrix pedal. You can probably go to guitar center and play the cheese wedge, though.

[tuffteef]

im from downunder and the music stores round here SUCK and there pretty limited to to testing and way overpriced here lol

[Roseweave]

Kinda want that Octave fuzz now. Does it work with chords, and does it clean up?

[Blurillaz]

Kinda want that Octave fuzz now. Does it work with chords, and does it clean up?

Which one? If it's the Jimi Hendrix MXR one, I'll ask my guitar teacher about it. He uses it a lot in his shows... but plays rockabilly.