Mate, these videos and your presentation are sincerely sensational. I never comment online and this is a TH-cam first for me…but your mix of putting great music out there, educating interested folks on how it actually works (be it layering tracks/loops, specific equipment choices, or creating the overall holistic end-result) are really energising and inspirational. And your conversation is very real, specific and helpful. I play guitar and sing a bit, in addition to being a full time professional, husband and father to two young kids. So it’s usually on my on these days and private…and you’ve inspired me to take the step and go out and get my own setup! It’s on the way and I’m looking forward to creating a much richer musical outcome. Let’s see how I go. All the best, and ps - you have great solo chops on guitar…some John Mayer inspired melodies / riffs in there?….you should put out a video or two with more exploratory solo guitar in there! Would be great to listen. Cheers
This is the first video I ever seen on your channel, and I already know I need to sub ! That was so awesome! I want to hear more of that beat you made ! You seem like a very knowledgeable and amazing person. I learned so much just watching this short video, that I can't wait to see what else you have posted. Thanks again, I genuinely appreciate you. Keep doing what you love, and stay safe out there. ✌️† 🎸
great job...I want to try and use the octave with my guitar as a "monitor" to get the right bass notes and then transpose my guitar track in post... keep jammin...
Just got this pedal for my new pedalboard and acoustic guitar. It was a little more complicated to start than I thought but you helped clear up a lot. Thanks!
it's a sound! I've always had this pedal in mind, but I have a question: I play the guitar by continuously hitting the snare imitating a bass drum while playing harmonies. If I had the pedal activated, would it negatively affect those "kick" hits?
Thanks Carl I pulled this pedal off my board because I didn’t understand the threshold determining how man bass notes I could get. Going to have to try again.
Another good video! Have you done a video on the drum sound from a guitar? I love my acoustic sound, both room and plugged in, but the drum sound is not up to snuff. When I bought it, few people were drumming on guitar.
What guitar do you have mate? It ALL has to do with the pickup. Taylor Guitars are good example of an amazing guitar that sounds fantastic in the studio but when plugged in they usually sound very thin with no real kick sound ability.
@@carlwockner I have an Alvarez Yairi DY 62. It’s from 1986. Piezo pickups have come a long way since then. I have a newer Yamaha that makes good drum sounds, but the guitar tone is really dead. Go figure!
Really tempted by one of these for solo acoustic/vocal gigs... not sure it'll work well though? Does the threshold ever cause unwanted bass notes to pop through?
@@Millennial_Mike only if you have it set too high or low. You can’t strum with it but certainly finger style with the threshold set correct works great:)
@@carlwockner oh from what I understand, when you dial the knob all the way down it becomes monophonic and detects the chord and only plays the fundamental bass note
@ yes that’s right however it detects each note and does an octave lower than each note. Generally it’s supposed to detect the lowest note and do that in polyphonic but each pedal is a little different. If you do a super clear strum of each string you’ll hear a bit of chaos with multiple octave notes
This is super cool! Thank you for the video! Also, this is unrelated to the octave pedal, but that looks to be a tablet in the middle of your pedalboard. How are making it play automatically when you push the pedals? And is there a specific software on the tablet itself?
Hey Carl came across your channel while searching for boss Oc3 settings etc. Wow. Amazing ! I've been bigneing all of your videos. Question I'd you have time to answer how so you keep the other effects you have on your guitar like delay, trem, reverb etc. Out of the bass sound when playing in poly mode ? Or are those pedals/effects also effecting the bass as well. Thanks man. Love your stuff
Thanks mate:) it’s all in my most recent rig rundown video - hope that helps, a series of parametric eq’s and a klon OD but mostly it’s having the maton guitar pickup alongside it all🤙🏼
Hi Carl, Great sound. I already saw a lot of great loopings from you. One question, I have bought an octave pedal but my sound just awful. It sounds like an distorted sound or like if you blow up your speaker. Do you know why this is and what I do wrong. I use my acoustic guitar with a rc-300 loop pedal straight to my PA system. Regards Michel
@@carlwockner Thanks for your answer. That is the problem maybe, my pedal does not have that option. It is the TC Electronic Nether Octaver Pedaal. But I guess it is better to buy the Boss OC 3 right?
Hey mate, yes I have the sy1 and love it. But for me the OC3 or 5 suit me better cus I like to adjust the threshold for different songs when I play both bass and rhythm at the same time.
Can I use this octave pedal connected to my acoustic guitar in standard tuning to make it sound an octave lower ?? I have a lower singing voice ( bass ) and if that pedal does that it would make my singing a lot easier.
transposing the guitar an octave down won't change the key of your singing, unless you just do a full octave down vocally also. Which you could still do while the guitar is in the standard octave. It would technically work, but the pedal is not designed for that. You would run into audio issues for clarity etc.. Try the Digitech Drop pedal though, as that could just transpose the whole thing down a few steps which might help you practice without needing to learn different chords if that is a struggle. Hope that helps
@@smileyfdave I might have been talking about the direct signal level on the OC3. Most people only worry about the octave level. But making it pop it all about having the direct level involved also
I didn’t know about that threshhold knob. That’s pretty awesome
Carl, thanks for taking the time to show us how this all works. Really appreciate your work!
Mate, these videos and your presentation are sincerely sensational. I never comment online and this is a TH-cam first for me…but your mix of putting great music out there, educating interested folks on how it actually works (be it layering tracks/loops, specific equipment choices, or creating the overall holistic end-result) are really energising and inspirational. And your conversation is very real, specific and helpful. I play guitar and sing a bit, in addition to being a full time professional, husband and father to two young kids. So it’s usually on my on these days and private…and you’ve inspired me to take the step and go out and get my own setup! It’s on the way and I’m looking forward to creating a much richer musical outcome. Let’s see how I go. All the best, and ps - you have great solo chops on guitar…some John Mayer inspired melodies / riffs in there?….you should put out a video or two with more exploratory solo guitar in there! Would be great to listen. Cheers
Thanks so much mate!! So pumped for you to turn it up a notch:) and yessir I’m a Mayer fan for life!!
Bout time I was getting the groove you would stop . love your creativity.
I just bought OC3, thank you!
This is the first video I ever seen on your channel, and I already know I need to sub !
That was so awesome!
I want to hear more of that beat you made !
You seem like a very knowledgeable and amazing person. I learned so much just watching this short video, that I can't wait to see what else you have posted.
Thanks again, I genuinely appreciate you.
Keep doing what you love, and stay safe out there.
✌️† 🎸
Great video, thank you Carl for all tips. I got the boss octave and it's amazing how much it helps when you play alone
Thank you! I've had this pedal for 6 months but hadn't explored it yet other than the basic setting.
Your demo is amazing.
I use the Boss OC3 on my acoustic board. Very cool with looping.
great job...I want to try and use the octave with my guitar as a "monitor" to get the right bass notes and then transpose my guitar track in post... keep jammin...
Just got this pedal for my new pedalboard and acoustic guitar. It was a little more complicated to start than I thought but you helped clear up a lot. Thanks!
I liked the intro , Piiiwh piiiwh.. Great pedal., Love the Boss pedals.
Sounds great Carl! I use the TC electronics Octaver in the same way. Clear explenation dude. Like it. Keep m comming bro
Do you use the Sub'n'Up? How do you set it up to only affect the lower strings? I'm looking into this exact thing now, but thought it couldn't do it 😅
Thanks mate - I’ve heard the effect and wondered how it worked. I’ll be getting myself one of these babies now
So cool video, thanks man. I will buy the oc5 for my guitar and bass🎉
Great demo on the bass. Bass, along with the drums, does create the groove. Big difference without it.
Awesome video dude.. Your groove with that bass line was tight. 🎸💯. Thanks for the info..
Hey my dude thank u 4 Makin a good, simple, straight forward video 🔥 🙏
Oh yes... I've just found you. You inspire... You inspire... You inspireeeee!
Great informative Video, great musician as well
Nice one Carl thanks
it's a sound! I've always had this pedal in mind, but I have a question: I play the guitar by continuously hitting the snare imitating a bass drum while playing harmonies. If I had the pedal activated, would it negatively affect those "kick" hits?
Yes, it would octave the bass hits and overload the sound too much.
Great demo Carl. Always wants me to buy the diesel maton as well !! 😃👌
Never been disappointed with my Mini Maton. They sound amazing plugged in.
Thank's !!! You are amazing bro ! Sounds Good =)
Thanks Carl I pulled this pedal off my board because I didn’t understand the threshold determining how man bass notes I could get. Going to have to try again.
super videjko, dakujem
You're the boss!
Thank you.
Wow! Very helpful. Thank you so much❤
Great stuff!!!
Nice one cheers man
Tanks i love you Man!
I have a similar setup with the headrush LB
Another good video! Have you done a video on the drum sound from a guitar? I love my acoustic sound, both room and plugged in, but the drum sound is not up to snuff. When I bought it, few people were drumming on guitar.
What guitar do you have mate? It ALL has to do with the pickup. Taylor Guitars are good example of an amazing guitar that sounds fantastic in the studio but when plugged in they usually sound very thin with no real kick sound ability.
@@carlwockner I have an Alvarez Yairi DY 62. It’s from 1986. Piezo pickups have come a long way since then. I have a newer Yamaha that makes good drum sounds, but the guitar tone is really dead. Go figure!
Yes I like your content brother
First. awesome work, next, what do you think about boss oc5, compares to oc3?
Thanks! There’s no threshold dial on the oc5 so it’s a dealbreaker for me:(
Great stuff. Love playing with octave pedals. Ok, I have to ask...who makes those awesome red glasses?
Really tempted by one of these for solo acoustic/vocal gigs... not sure it'll work well though? Does the threshold ever cause unwanted bass notes to pop through?
@@Millennial_Mike only if you have it set too high or low. You can’t strum with it but certainly finger style with the threshold set correct works great:)
@@carlwockner with the OC-5 you can strum and it will play the bass note :)
@ kinda yes, it is polyphonic but can get a little warbly if you have 2 lower notes
@@carlwockner oh from what I understand, when you dial the knob all the way down it becomes monophonic and detects the chord and only plays the fundamental bass note
@ yes that’s right however it detects each note and does an octave lower than each note. Generally it’s supposed to detect the lowest note and do that in polyphonic but each pedal is a little different. If you do a super clear strum of each string you’ll hear a bit of chaos with multiple octave notes
Cool man!!!
This is super cool! Thank you for the video! Also, this is unrelated to the octave pedal, but that looks to be a tablet in the middle of your pedalboard. How are making it play automatically when you push the pedals? And is there a specific software on the tablet itself?
Thanks mate. It’s my Headrush looper🤙🏼
Gosh…. I want this!! 😅😅
Another really nice video! Why haven't you switched to the OC-5? Maybe you already have the sound you want.
The RC5 is great, but for my settings it has no difference than the OC3.
Really the only difference is the OC5 also has octave up.
Nice tone, what brand / model guitar is that?
Thanks it’s a Maton EMD6, all my equipment is listed in the description🤙🏼
Nice
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What model Matton is it, it sounds great.
Hey Carl came across your channel while searching for boss Oc3 settings etc. Wow. Amazing ! I've been bigneing all of your videos. Question I'd you have time to answer how so you keep the other effects you have on your guitar like delay, trem, reverb etc. Out of the bass sound when playing in poly mode ? Or are those pedals/effects also effecting the bass as well. Thanks man. Love your stuff
Hey, man! Nice sound! How you managed to get this cool overdriven tone please? Best regards from Brazil! 😊
Thanks mate:) it’s all in my most recent rig rundown video - hope that helps, a series of parametric eq’s and a klon OD but mostly it’s having the maton guitar pickup alongside it all🤙🏼
Did you use to play in The Wiggles?
I wish! those guys are killing it
Can these pedals just take every string down an octave instead of having 2 octaves playing at once?
Yes, technically that’s the polyphonic mode but it just doesn’t work well if you strum, you just have to pick one or 2 notes
Hi Carl what looper is thar please with that screen etc. Thanks
Hey mate, all the pedals are in the description:)
Hi Carl, Great sound. I already saw a lot of great loopings from you. One question, I have bought an octave pedal but my sound just awful. It sounds like an distorted sound or like if you blow up your speaker. Do you know why this is and what I do wrong. I use my acoustic guitar with a rc-300 loop pedal straight to my PA system. Regards Michel
Do you have it set to Poly mode?
@@carlwockner Thanks for your answer. That is the problem maybe, my pedal does not have that option. It is the TC Electronic Nether Octaver Pedaal. But I guess it is better to buy the Boss OC 3 right?
GREAT VID. I have the OC-5...do you use the TC Spark before or after your Octaver?
Thanks mate. I have it before - but you can do either
@@carlwockner before the OC-5, I was using a Boss SY-1 for my bass loops. Have you tried it? I think I'm going to switch back.
Hey mate, yes I have the sy1 and love it. But for me the OC3 or 5 suit me better cus I like to adjust the threshold for different songs when I play both bass and rhythm at the same time.
Can I use this octave pedal connected to my acoustic guitar in standard tuning to make it sound an octave lower ?? I have a lower singing voice ( bass ) and if that pedal does that it would make my singing a lot easier.
transposing the guitar an octave down won't change the key of your singing, unless you just do a full octave down vocally also. Which you could still do while the guitar is in the standard octave. It would technically work, but the pedal is not designed for that. You would run into audio issues for clarity etc.. Try the Digitech Drop pedal though, as that could just transpose the whole thing down a few steps which might help you practice without needing to learn different chords if that is a struggle. Hope that helps
@@carlwockner I will check that out. Thanks.
Love the OC3 - random question but what brand is that safe case on the left? Pelican?
Hey mate, yes it’s a pelican:)
Great! How is the latency of this pedal? Would you recommend the OC-5?
No latency at all. The OC5 is pretty killer:) it’s essentially the new version of the OC3
@@carlwockner Thanks, I will get one!
What's the link up between the TC Spark and the OC3?
Just a patch cable🤙🏼
@@carlwockner Thanks. You mentioned that if you wanted the bass to pop, you stepped on it? Is it on it's own channel?
@@smileyfdave I might have been talking about the direct signal level on the OC3. Most people only worry about the octave level. But making it pop it all about having the direct level involved also
@@carlwockner Great. Simple. I like simple.
I want to hear just the bass note that's it
Yeah, and loop it.
Damn! I wish I knew this guys name….🤦😂🇨🇦👍🏻😜
Don’t tell, show!
@@GS-uk3ml I do:) and I do in every other video I post haha:)
the loop would 0f made a good hiphop beat l0l
Great great video, sound...Everything :) ...BUT your hair!!! What happens? sniff, sniff...
no action, talk only
Ugh, too much talking
More explanation demo soon