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is the micro pog really that big? hammond 1590bb sized box. part of their xo series. i personally loved that little weapon. i now have a pog2 for additional octave fun.
it's worth the real estate to me. ask yourself. do i really need octave up AND down. if not find a pedal to do one or the other, ie. boss ps-3 or boss oc-2. i also have an mxr bass octave deluxe. tinyyy pedal and very useful octave down with loads of options.

mauerkraut wrote:is the micro pog really that big? hammond 1590bb sized box. part of their xo series. i personally loved that little weapon. i now have a pog2 for additional octave fun.
it's worth the real estate to me. ask yourself. do i really need octave up AND down. if not find a pedal to do one or the other, ie. boss ps-3 or boss oc-2. i also have an mxr bass octave deluxe. tinyyy pedal and very useful octave down with loads of options.

No idea, I think the POG2 is small enough but it costs a lot..

Guyatone has a mini-octave pedal. So does..err someone else I found.

And Zvex makes the Johnny Octave which costs as much as a POG2 and sounds like a fuzzed-octave-up to my ears

There's also the Whammy, which I've never heard sound good while the footpedal was in motion, only when it locked onto a pitch. Which makes me think the POG2 is far superior because I can just set the slider

mathias wrote:There's also the Whammy, which I've never heard sound good while the footpedal was in motion, only when it locked onto a pitch.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6Sk8Aj-SQ[/youtube]

sounds like a ring modulator with and exp pedal for frequency, not a whammy. i hear side harmonics

Maybe this is an option, Boss Harmonist 2, you can set 2 additional voices, which go from octave down to octave up, and some things in between:

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

mauerkraut wrote:sounds like a ring modulator with and exp pedal for frequency, not a whammy. i hear side harmonics

It's a whammy. I can make mine do this sound.

They do sound weird, but I wouldn't say bad.

Don't get me wrong. I've wanted a Whammy for awhile. Its usefulness seems so low to me that lots of other pedals are in my "to acquire" stack first. And the POG/MicroPOG definitely are farther up on my want list than the Whammy.

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I think the goal is something that does clean harmonies, not fuzzy synthy octave.

Our other guitarist uses a Whammy; I use a POG. We just do different stuff. The Whammy's tracking is funky, but that can be good.

For example, the Boss PS-5 is one of my few old pedals that I wouldn't mind having back. I like it's octave (or 2) upping better for ring mod sounds than most ring mods. It can also do basic 12-string sounds, as well as (my fav) 5th harmonics for video game tonez. I really do miss it, don't I. More useful for fun than the band.

My question/complaint is if you really don't want to devote the space that a MicroPog needs, do you really want that kind of effect that much?

I've tried PS-5, didn't like it

didn't handle chords very well and for whammyisms, you just have to buy an expression pedal, because controlling it with the pedal stomp-thing isn't really... controlling it

most of the time it just sounded retarded to me... i've always loved whammy pitch shifting, i also already had one, but this fuckhead from london fucked me over and sent me a broken pedal -> dispute won, about 2/3 of my money were refund (because of the shipping etc.). I'm not sure i want to get it anymore... it's a tough one

i've tried POG and i have to say i wasn't very fond of those organ sounds... yeah, it sounded mean, but i'd like it to have more sound options. That was partially resolved with POG2's attack slider however the cash they want for this is retarded

maybe i'm not the octave guy

DarkAxel wrote:maybe i'm not the octave guy

Sometimes I kind of wish I was a simpler-guitar-gear kind of guy. Like, instead of lusting over crazy gear, wanting different kinds of fuzz and lots of modulation, and being really picky about amps, it'd be nice to just be satisfied with a Squire Strat into a tubescreamer into a Blues Junior, or something. Sadly, that's just not really my thing and I can't get really great tone out of that kind of setup.. my fingers don't have the SRV/Jimi powahs.

I think I'm just gonna get a bigger board and get a POG2 haha

Heavy_Soul wrote:I think I'm just gonna get a bigger board and get a POG2 haha

This, but I'm going to wait until I can score a POG2 used for less than three hundo. That's a lot of money

mathias wrote:

Heavy_Soul wrote:I think I'm just gonna get a bigger board and get a POG2 haha

This, but I'm going to wait until I can score a POG2 used for less than three hundo. That's a lot of money

Yeah 3bills is too much but they never come up used (which probably means they are awesome)

It would almost replace both my OC2 and my disnortion on my board, so it would actually save me space