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    Quote Originally Posted by TobiasMan View Post
    Does your octave pedal allow you to choose either an octave up, or down, or both?

    It's just a downer. It's called the DEEP DIVE. It plays the original tone and gives you another one right with it, one octave lower. It ends up sounding like a pair of tones in chorus.

    http://elmoworx.blogspot.com/2012/03/effects.html

    It makes the G string sound brutally deep and encourages you to play your songs in a higher octave for the wonderful new blended tones it creates. You know? Not everything on the E and A strings?

    The D and G strings benefit the most from this pedal. The A string sounds good, but the lower you get, the harder it is to form the two tones properly and sound them properly through a bass amp.

    The E string is not so impressive because it's trying to find an octave below the low E, which is a little wacky. You can hear it, but it doesn't really work well through the Rumble - I guess it's a frequency thing. I know Jauqo has talked about how it is trying to find an amp that can handle the low notes on his 15 string with that crazy low C# string.

    Because the Deep Dive is technically supposed to be used on a LEAD guitar, it's best used on the higher frets on a bass, but when you do that, it's fab! It doesn't make the notes "rumble" - it just gives them a really rich and full-bodied tone. I use it to play mellow basslines like in Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun or some of my own stuff.
    Last edited by Elmeaux; 01-05-2013 at 01:28 AM.


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    That's why I'm curious about the ones that appear double the octave up. Seems to again "thicken" the sound, but it is hard to find amps/cabs that will come anywhere near cleanly reproducing a B string doubled 'down'.

    My 410XST goes down to 30hz, but that just nicely catches the normal B string, not an octave down.
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