Re: OT:Octave choice

["Clifford@BienAppraisers" <res0koq3@verizon.net>]

I have never liked the Boss- 2 oct is nice but tracking sux and too
synth-like for my taste- I will try the Digitech- thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Douglas Baldwin" <dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
To: "Loopers-Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT:Octave choice


> I've had no experience with the Dan-o octaver or DOD, but I've used the
> Boss, and its tracking is spotty in the extreme ranges. For the bucks I'd
go
> with the Digitech Whammy. I demo'd the original (and most popular) model
> back in the day when it first came out, but by the time I ordered it, it
had
> morphed into the somewhat unpopular black model. I have zero complaints
with
> it.It generates one ovave up, two octaves up, and one octave down from 
>the
> original pitch. Additionally, it generates a mix of one octave up and one
> octave down in conjunction with the original signal. And then of course
> there are all the other intervals it will generate along with the zany
> pedal-portamento effect. I believe the newest (and slightly more popular)
> model has the "dive bomb" pitch effect which drops the sound five octaves
or
> so, sounding like a turntablist putting the brakes on vinyl if you play 
>it
> right. Or for those whose hair resembles a poodle's, sounding like Eddie
Van
> slamming his Floyd Rose into the face of his custom Strat.
>     If you add up all the octave possibilities and it's ability to track
> single note lines really well AND its cool glitchiness when you feed it a
> comlex chord, its possibly the best bank-per-buck octaver out there.
>
>
>