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Octaver Bass head

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 7:58 pm
by Bellyheart
My bass head is flurge and I'm not really sure I wanna invest money into gettin it repaired. Just a behringer 300xt. Nothing fancy and would cost ten dollars less than a used one to repair. However, it is an essentially aspect of my band to have the octaver effect.

Wondering if you guys can recommend any other brands that have heads with octave dividers built in. I may just get a normal head and add a pedal but wanna avoid if possible.

Any experience with that TC electronic head with the tone print?

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:34 pm
by greyscales
A lot of Ashdown heads do.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:20 am
by Bellyheart
Anything cheaper?

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:32 am
by SmallEQ
Bellyheart wrote:Anything cheaper?
On the used market there are a lot of cheap Ashdown heads.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:32 pm
by whiskey_face
swr 750s but you said cheaper sooooooo no idea

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:42 pm
by theAntihero
EBS makes a great octaver bass pedal, my bassist used a behringer for years and when he switched he usese that pedal.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:37 pm
by van_muddlestein
Dude, go with a better head with a pedal. The MXR Bass Octave and the EBS bass octave pedal are outstanding and will do just as good a job if not better than the behringer head. I know you're hesitant but seriously....take the plunge.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 12:24 am
by Mudfuzz
I've played through one of those amps at a jam once and "to me" that effect was more of a subharmonic processor like a DBX or a meat box then a octave divider :idk:

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:34 am
by Bellyheart
Yeah. Recently I've been borrowing heads and using a pitch shifter for the bass amp and it's far from the same. Usually high notes didn't track which was ideal. I'm not sure what's gonna happen. Definitely don't have enough to get a head currently though.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 1:42 am
by Mudfuzz
Do you have some kind of pre amp? if so you could pick up a old power amp cheap and go the rack rout, then you could just add stuff as you go, like, more power a better pre and something like a DBX 120 and so forth.

Re: Octaver Bass head

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 11:58 am
by Gone Fission
Peavey Kosmos is a solid subharmonic generator, too. Because it's Peavey it might come up cheap used. (I gather v1 and v2 are both good.)