Different Applications of an Octave Pedal

[Chankgeez]

Hey-Diddly-Ho, you started this!

[BoatRich]

Octave in the delay loop is always rad, I also love ring mod in the loop? Also octave at the end of your signal as an indistinguishable low tone is sick

[tabcantab]

This is pretty obvious, but I like tapping an octave on and off rhythmically on sustained notes for the glitchy, jumpy effect of it

[affectperdals]

The Monastary sounds very much like it uses an FV-1 for the octave shifting (I'd be interested to see gut shots).

Octave pedal before an envelope filter can be really cool.

For something more useful than rainbow-machine noises, try sticking it in a delay effects loop but with the feedback set to zero and the pedal set for an octave up only. Set the delay time to a dotted rhythm and play in straight time. You'll get cool octave up counterpoint on the off-beats between your playing. That's the only way I can make pitch-shifting delays usable tbh.

If you have a little mixer pedal or even a separate amp, you can get great stuff by splitting your signal and putting some much heavier modulation effects on the pitch shifted signal. A reverb's clean guitar paired with a vibrato'd and tremolo'd octave up could be way more interesting than a shimmer verb if you get the settings right.

It does use the FV-1 chip. Those are both cool ideas!

[Jwar]

I tend to hate octave down pedals unless they are properly implemented into a fuzz pedal. They just don't ever track right. Octave up however I love.

I'm not help for the actual question here though. haha

[affectperdals]

This is pretty obvious, but I like tapping an octave on and off rhythmically on sustained notes for the glitchy, jumpy effect of it

That's a cool idea for sure. Wasn't obvious to me

[lordgalvar]

Boost the heck out of it in parallel and keep adding more octave down then convert the wave to CV or light via led. Use a light sensor or CV control a pedal with a dynamic tracking glitchy lfo.

Run it in parallel to the other input of a ring mod.

Run a comparator after an octave pedal to give moving tap tempo signal to delay pedals.

[rustywire]

Synth, samplers, drum machines...duh. Esp ones with limited tuning options.
Great for expanding the range of a toy piano, oscillator or series of oscillators.
Try it with reverb pedal & bass: blend the dry low end with wet mids-upper octave dripping-verb. Such a gr8 combo

[01010111]

I like adding an analog octave pedal after fuzz and running chords through it. The fuzz->octave normally cleans up the tracking, but then feeding it chords makes it nice and messy. As it glitches it gives everything a nice bolder-rolling-down-a-hill kind of feeling.

[oscillofuzz]

I tend to have multiple pitch shifters on board and always have at least one of them in front of an octave up fuzz for noisy clang. Currently it's the Whammy into an Ampeg Scrambler clone. On single notes this combination cuts mercilessly, double stops are a beautiful mess and triads or more lead to nothing but noise, which can also be quite satisfying depending on the context

[friendship]

on my Line 6 I like to run several octaves both up and down in series, ending up at the same note as if I hadn't processed it, but now utterly mangled.

[Ghost Hip]

More of a pitch shifter thing, but one time I had a Boss PS-2 and PS-3 set fully wet. I just played one chord and tuned the pitch of each pedal to change the key I was playing in. It was kind of a parady of shoegaze. Sounded cool though. I like going from an analog distorted signal and stepping on a pitch shifter to dramatically make it sound digital and shifted up a few steps.

Another thing I would do wtih the PS-2 and PS-3 is set one to octave up and one to octave down and just have it be a really inconsistent and shitty sounding version of my original signal.

[MechaGodzilla]

on my Line 6 I like to run several octaves both up and down in series, ending up at the same note as if I hadn't processed it, but now utterly mangled.

you're a madman and i like it

[Ugly Nora]

Stacking an octave down pedal into an octave up pedal sounds pretty cool, imo.

[Ghost Hip]

Damn, I should've read the post above my last.