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I wanted a pitch bay for a while but I think Im going to get a bass whammy for all my make-the-guitar-player-hate-me pitch shifting. i just wanted a thick analog sub octave to go with it.

Well if you can find the Robot Devil, it's the shit. I still get noticeable sub octaves using it pretty low on the bass too.

I've never had a suboctave fuzz but Vitruvian Mod > fuzz gets blue boxy sounds and other things. Comes with glitchiness too plus everything it is supposed to do

I tried lots of clean suboctave and suboctave fuzz pedals but my favourites so far definitely are the Aguilar Octamizer and Boss OC-2 for clean suboctaves and MI Audio Pollyanna for fuzzy suboctaves, I'm using them all on guitar though.
Other ones worth mentioning are the Copilot Mantis, old Infanem Second Voice and the Subdecay OctaSynth, I'm pretty sure they say the latter one doesn't seem to work that well on bass though.
Also the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe is pretty good, a bit in between the Octamizer and OC-2, not as characterful and synthy as the OC-2 and not as tight and heavy as the Octamizer.

I'm pretty sure that if I'd be a bass player I'd pick the Octamizer and run it into a distortion or fuzz or the other way around, I don't think it can get any heavier than that which must say something coming from a guy who generally thinks lots of pedals don't sound heavy enough.
For what it's worth I really thought the Bit Commander and Gomorrah were both kinda weak sounding if you compare them to the other ones I mentioned, I don't think they'll sound much heavier than the new Second Voice you had, I tried the Second Voice Deluxe and to me it had the same kind of weakness over it.

For bass I'd go oc2 or octamizer paired with a fuzz, that's my favorite way of doing it because you can stack it with whatever fuzz you want

It's not a suboctave fuzz, but it can do it... Fairfield Circuitry Four Eyes.

Or Octron in any fuzz.

Has anyone tried the Dr. Green (Ashdown) Octa Dose?

Looked at that one before, never tried it.

I think I'm gonna need a Vitruvian Mod though. Sounds pretty amazing.

Wes Mantooth wrote:Well if you can find the Robot Devil, it's the shit. I still get noticeable sub octaves using it pretty low on the bass too.

I have two Robot Devil PCB's I still haven't finished. I did have three.


I loved the Second Voice as well. V2 was the best IMO.

Earlier I was playing with the GB24 set to half speed playback, short time, low feedback into a max sustain big muff.

neonblack wrote:Looked at that one before, never tried it.

I think I'm gonna need a Vitruvian Mod though. Sounds pretty amazing.

Supposedly no good on bass? that what I remember hearing, was designed for guitar and doesn't register properly on the lower bass register notes

yeah I dunno man, you might be able to get it to work but the Vitruvian Mod along with every other subdecay pedal that involves tracking is not 'made' for bass. the VM is noticeably less stable and not exactly in a good way, it's a very pristine sounding pedal so you kind of want it to track well. behndy knows whats up so maybe he can weigh in.

jwar wrote:

Wes Mantooth wrote:Well if you can find the Robot Devil, it's the shit. I still get noticeable sub octaves using it pretty low on the bass too.

I have two Robot Devil PCB's I still haven't finished. I did have three.


I loved the Second Voice as well. V2 was the best IMO.

Dude. Hook junior up.

if you don't care about tracking the OC2 is fat as fuck, and cheap. run it into your fuzz pedals. you can also get a bass whammy and run it after your fuzz (which is what I do). sounds great. The aggie octave pedal is great, and I would recommend it over the OC2 if you care about tracking. both of them are pretty cheap relatively. if you want to spend a little more, the foxrox octron rules, it's also super fat. run that into your fuzz pedals. the bit commander also tracks well and is heavy but it was too one dimensional for me. all of this I say from the perspective of a bassist

Tristan wrote:I tried lots of clean suboctave and suboctave fuzz pedals but my favourites so far definitely are the Aguilar Octamizer and Boss OC-2 for clean suboctaves and MI Audio Pollyanna for fuzzy suboctaves, I'm using them all on guitar though.
Other ones worth mentioning are the Copilot Mantis, old Infanem Second Voice and the Subdecay OctaSynth, I'm pretty sure they say the latter one doesn't seem to work that well on bass though.
Also the MXR Bass Octave Deluxe is pretty good, a bit in between the Octamizer and OC-2, not as characterful and synthy as the OC-2 and not as tight and heavy as the Octamizer.

I'm pretty sure that if I'd be a bass player I'd pick the Octamizer and run it into a distortion or fuzz or the other way around, I don't think it can get any heavier than that which must say something coming from a guy who generally thinks lots of pedals don't sound heavy enough.
For what it's worth I really thought the Bit Commander and Gomorrah were both kinda weak sounding if you compare them to the other ones I mentioned, I don't think they'll sound much heavier than the new Second Voice you had, I tried the Second Voice Deluxe and to me it had the same kind of weakness over it.

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I tried my v1 second Voice with bass two days ago and didn't like it. Love it on guitar though.

The ebs octabass was impressing for me. Get that One and slap it before your favorite Dirt pedal.