Just got one. The clean, octave, and fuzz channels sound incredibly independent, which is very impressive to me. Not everyone wants to sound like a generically Darkglass clone with perfectly encapsulated overdrive that only amounts to one numetal tone. Fuzz is a great old school form of distortion and the numbers of ways I can manage that fuzz, including boosting at the treble and bass ends, and how much I blend in dry and octaves, is pretty damn modern without needing a sound engineering degree to figure out all the knobs. If I were to build this a as a perfect beast I'd like an optional stereo out dry/fuzz and a tone control for the suboctave.
Just so you know.... The Darkglass is definitely probably about twice as usable as this pedal. And it is definitely far from a Numetal one trick pony. You pretty much just discrediting yourself.
Bass with flatwound strings sounds best through an octave pedal. Tracks better and has a warm organic-funky tone. A lot of bassists avoid effects with basses that have flats. Flatwounds make chorus and other modulation effects sound murky and you lose the shimmering "chime" like sound. Octave kicks ass with flats.
I love mine. He didn't engage the other fuzz [red] only the blue. I got hooked on sub harmonics with an ashdown amp and now I can put it on anything I want
No mention that you have to have the fuzz turned on in order to get the octave. Pretty lame. There’s a way around it, but who wants to have to turn up the fuzz real quick if you want to kick the fuzz on when the octave is already engaged? Not me.
Bass with Octave pedal rocks in a three piece gtr-bs-drms type band. A band with more guitars or a keyboard etc. a bass with octave kinda muddies things a bit.
At least with the OktoNojs you have separate footswitch usage for the octave and the fuzz, and can use either effect separately without having to move the knobs. (Same with the Redwitch Zeus). I think it's a design fail on the MXR that you can't do that.
andrew sutliff not to rain on everyone’s parade but there actually is the vintage fuzz sound “fuzz face”, “big muff”, “tone bender” and there then there is the modern fuzz sound “zvex fuzz factory”, “red witch fuzzgod” “Earthquaker erupter” etc.. so before you attack someone with an opinion based on knowledge, it would be better to learn more about your craft before making unqualified responses
He overuses "so" I think after f*** so is the most versatile word for this guy as a American! Is it so true ? So so So I'm not a native English speaker so I'm not so sure So could you say me why does he says so so many times.tanks so much!
Just got one. The clean, octave, and fuzz channels sound incredibly independent, which is very impressive to me. Not everyone wants to sound like a generically Darkglass clone with perfectly encapsulated overdrive that only amounts to one numetal tone. Fuzz is a great old school form of distortion and the numbers of ways I can manage that fuzz, including boosting at the treble and bass ends, and how much I blend in dry and octaves, is pretty damn modern without needing a sound engineering degree to figure out all the knobs.
If I were to build this a as a perfect beast I'd like an optional stereo out dry/fuzz and a tone control for the suboctave.
Your comment about Darkglass is exactly how I feel.
Just so you know.... The Darkglass is definitely probably about twice as usable as this pedal. And it is definitely far from a Numetal one trick pony. You pretty much just discrediting yourself.
@@prettyugly6089 maybe you should try this pedal instead of stanning for Darkglass.
@@michaelmenkesOZSKIB, I own this pedal too you douchebag. Damn, stanning lol
@@prettyugly6089 When darkglass pedal don't broke they are usable yep ahah...ahg
Bass with flatwound strings sounds best through an octave pedal. Tracks better and has a warm organic-funky tone. A lot of bassists avoid effects with basses that have flats. Flatwounds make chorus and other modulation effects sound murky and you lose the shimmering "chime" like sound. Octave kicks ass with flats.
I love mine. He didn't engage the other fuzz [red] only the blue. I got hooked on sub harmonics with an ashdown amp and now I can put it on anything I want
He engaged the red at the end
i recently purchased this pedal a week ago and its by far my favorite fuzz pedal. 5 out 5 stars
Can you use the octave with no fuzz?
@@user-tv3ks4nq7e yes, you can.
Big MXR fan but never been a fan of their fuzz, until now. Fuzzy 1, Synthy 2. Octave is cool. EQ finally! Love the J. Good review Steve!
fuzzy 1
Great video. I’m subbed
p sure Juan Alderete helped with the final design of this pedal
What scale are you riffing over?
Ok. I need one of these pronto.
Now what would this sound like on an 8 string bass
I use seperate fuzz and octave pedals, both MXR. It sounds way better than this and way more control possibilities.
No mention that you have to have the fuzz turned on in order to get the octave. Pretty lame. There’s a way around it, but who wants to have to turn up the fuzz real quick if you want to kick the fuzz on when the octave is already engaged? Not me.
Well it’s a combo pedal. Just buy the two effects separately.
It has fondue
You can use it on bass with c standard tune ?
Jaime Wuth Cejas that would be a mistake
Can i achieve Muse tone with this?
Drive Me Away I think you're looking for the EHX Big Muff Pi Deluxe Bass.
Get the Deluxe Sovtek Big Muff or the Green Russian.
It doesn't have good character, sounds better than digital though, this would need a good band context to really be judged and criticized.
Bass with Octave pedal rocks in a three piece gtr-bs-drms type band. A band with more guitars or a keyboard etc. a bass with octave kinda muddies things a bit.
CAn anyone please tell me if each fuzz is based on the Bass fuzz deluxe and the el grande fuzz, respectively?
Why does it matter?
Barely played LOW E!!!?? How does it sound on a LOW B???
A suboctave of low E is already at the edge of audible frequencies.
You can still feel sub audible frequencies.
Jonny G Yeah, but from what I've seen octave pedals don't produce good sounds below A flat or so.
They stole the idea from the OctoNoise pedal from Emma Electronic
At least with the OktoNojs you have separate footswitch usage for the octave and the fuzz, and can use either effect separately without having to move the knobs. (Same with the Redwitch Zeus). I think it's a design fail on the MXR that you can't do that.
What is the mxr sub octave bass pedal internal switch for?
This might have been impressive ten years ago. You'd think they'd have something more polished and modern sounding nowadays.
You want more "polished and modern sounding"? ....wow, I almost can't wait to never be in a band with you!
Uh....yeah, thanks.
fuzz is supposed to be a vintage sound lmao
andrew sutliff not to rain on everyone’s parade but there actually is the vintage fuzz sound “fuzz face”, “big muff”, “tone bender” and there then there is the modern fuzz sound “zvex fuzz factory”, “red witch fuzzgod” “Earthquaker erupter” etc.. so before you attack someone with an opinion based on knowledge, it would be better to learn more about your craft before making unqualified responses
it does a lot more than he showed in this demo
He overuses "so"
I think after f*** so is the most versatile word for this guy as a American!
Is it so true ?
So so
So I'm not a native English speaker so I'm not so sure
So could you say me why does he says so so many times.tanks so much!
So what