A "what should I get" thread.

[decomposing]

Wow, that Particle is awesome. I wish there were a possibility for presets since there are so many usable sounds.

so much this.

[xrleroyx]

What about mooers?

[goroth]

I'll look in a bit. What do you think of it?

I dug it a lot. Easy to get good sounds out of, and for what it is I think it sounded fairly natural-ish. TB, relatively low current draw, standard 9v. Truck loads of volume, and the clean sound is good enough that you could turn the octaves down and the clean up and use it as a boost. Build quality is rad. What I dislike with polyphonic octave effects is the lag. After a while it just annoyed the shit out of me, which is also why I won't buy an Organzier. Never played a POG so I don't know if their algorithms/chip cope better. The lag on the Z.cat is no worse than the Organizer though.

[Jero]

I thought the small delay/lag was supposed to be there? Makes it sound more organ'ish, no?

[goroth]

That's optimistic marketing.

[goroth]

Thanks bro! Good to see you outside of the doom room again!

[MrNovember]

i've also been pretty happy with my board until lately when i moved and half of my pedals became redundant because i can't use them at the volumes they're supposed to be used, so i guess i'm back a bit to change things up ^^

Same here
I've found some similar tones that I used to get with my pedals but they all sounds kind of wimpy at bedroom level
I need a proper jam space

[goroth]

I have a half watt amp and it is too loud to crank.

I'm being serious!

[MrNovember]

i've also been pretty happy with my board until lately when i moved and half of my pedals became redundant because i can't use them at the volumes they're supposed to be used, so i guess i'm back a bit to change things up ^^

Same here
I've found some similar tones that I used to get with my pedals but they all sounds kind of wimpy at bedroom level
I need a proper jam space

sucks, right? i've played my clean channel forced into breakup by a fuzz pedal ONCE here, and i got a knock on the door (amp switched down to 7 watts).

it can't be done. i'd need like a 1/2 watt amp.

That's terrible. My roommates are actually pretty good and don't usually care (or comment at least) when I play but I haven't actually had my amp anywhere near normal volumes.
I miss my old Vox AC4TV it had a 1/4 watt setting that was actually pretty nice.
I take it you're in an apartment? That would be much worse.

[xrleroyx]

Try an attentuator. I used one on my old AC-30 and it sounded divine.

Any comments on the mooer pure octave?

[PanicProne]

The Montreal Assembly goodbye 24 reminds me quite a bit of the Empress Superdelay reverse mode C. Cool!

xrleroyx, if you're still interested in anything POG/HOG I could give you my two cents about it. Might be lame asking first but I'm too tired to write it down tonight..

[xrleroyx]

Go for it!

[PanicProne]

Getting in a bit late here. But anyways, my two cents about it all.

The Micro POG was the first "boutique", none-boss pedal I got. (After watching this demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLFEGdR07A).
It tracks beautifully, both individual notes and chords, strumming or picking and just sounds awesome. It's been on my board since and is still one of my favourite pedals. It sounds cool with other fx too, clean or distorted and doesn't take up a lot of real estate on the board either. The only thing I've ever missed about it is +2 octaves.

Which is why I jumped at the POG2 immediately when it came out. It was smaller sized than the original POG and had presets, plus that nifty volume control and more octaves than the Micro POG. Though it wasn't bad sounding at all, it just felt different and erm "cheaper", more sterile and "digital" to me, then my beloved micro. If you like the suuuper worshippy trippy shimmer sound, it does that great, but I never felt it tracked as tight as the Micro, it always felt like the effect was floating on top of my playing, rather than being what I played and also I never really made friends with the filter on it. So despite all the new cool features I eventually sold it and got back to my micro POG with less octaves and making volume swells with my guitar knob again..

However, since it seemed to have so many cool expression modes, sounds and thos extra octaves I decided to go for a HOG+preset and exp pedals. The HOG sounded a lot better than the POG2, although very different from poth the POG's, even though it was hard to put a finger on what was different. The filter mode was cool, freeze modes brilliant and I used the whammy quite a lot too. Not to mention all the weird synthy sounds it can do when you use the attack sliders right. If you want something to just experiment with at home, this is brilliant. A million sounds in it. It really nails the organ sound. The hard part is chosing to stick with presets and use in a band. As far as tracking and sound goes, it sounds a lot tighter than the POG2, but not as close as the micro. But it is different from both of them and the cliché that people use about pedals being "different beasts" really fits here. Its a HOG, not a POG.

Well, thats my erm, opinions (turned out more like a story bout me getting pedals..), but if you're wondering anything, feel free to ask. I haven't tried HOG2 or the original POG and since the micro was one of my first pedal loves it carries a bit of nostalgia. Also, since I got it first it set the bar for what I wanted things to sound like, I guess. But I still think it tracks better than the other two I've mentioned and to my ears has the best sound, although it may lack the features.