Foxrox Octron?

[ChetMagongalo]

Anyone have one or used one? Seems like the tracking on guitar is really good, anyone tried one with bass? Sounds kinda like the OC2 but with octave up and better tracking.

Thinking about replacing my pog 2 with it, I like the Oct. up on the pog 2 but the I feel like the oct down is pretty weak. It's too bad because the tracking is great.

Thoughts?

[sylnau]

I had one and I regret selling it.
The tracking is OK on guitar for a monotonic octaver... never tried it on bass.
There is a switch and more function Inside.

[Rob Fossil]

I love my Octron (standard version). I had an OC-2 and I loved the sound but was never happy with the tracking even with a compressor/sustainer placed before it. The Octron tracks better than any other analog octave effect I have tried and the option to blend in octave up is HUUUUUUGE!

Here is a synth bass demo I did that features the Octron at around 0:54. It has dirt compression and dirt added, but you'll get the idea.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbzVMAcgNn0[/youtube]

[ChetMagongalo]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing tracking sounds pretty good!

[ryan summit]

did you check out the octron 2
if i was able to try it out
i think i woulda went for it
instead of the ps 6

[sylnau]

I might get the Octron 2 one of these day. I really miss my Octron.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zTYB0Xqtfs[/youtube]

[ryan summit]

so its a footswitch for every knob?
and a loop, correct?
oh shit the vid just loaded^
you rule syl

[sylnau]

Yep, you'r right.
And, yep that vid is awesome.

[ChetMagongalo]

Yeah I was watching that last night. Nick does great demos!

[soldersqueeze]

I wanted an Octron 2 for ages, and buy the time I could find one second hand I'd bought an MXR bass octave deluxe as well. I ended up selling the octron 2 because the lower octave wasn't as strong/ fat as the mxr and the tracking wasn't as good. A shame really, because I love the idea/ layout. Still a good pedal, but for the money I expected it to replace the mxr, which it couldn't

[ChetMagongalo]

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to try that one! isn't that only octave down?

[Tristan]

I tried the Aguilar Octamizer, Boss OC2 and MXR Bass Octave Deluxe side by side with my guitar on a bass amp (all three are octave down pedals, no octave up) and the Aguilar was in my opinion definitely the most thick and heavy sounding by a mile.
The MXR Bass Octave Deluxe has a bit of the Boss OC2 vibe, it only sounds a bit cleaner (not completely as synth like) and tracks just a little bit better than the Boss OC2 maybe but I didn't think it was a huge difference.
The only weird thing with the Octamizer is that it sounds much better after dirt than before, unlike most other octave pedals I tried, but if you use it like that, kaboom, huge, punchy and powerful low end!
I read more comments saying the suboctave in the Octron really isn't that fat, if you want octave up and down in the same pedal it might be interesting to check out a digital octave pedal or more of a synth type pedal.
My favorites so far are the Digitech Whammy 5 and the Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synth but the Infanem Second Voice (Deluxe) seems to be very cool as well.
These are just my 2 cents offcourse.

[sylnau]

Also, look here:
viewtopic.php?f=190&t=28847&start=15#p536950

I'm waiting for this one.