T-Rex Engineering QUINT-MACHINE Pitch Guitar Effects Pedal with Fully Adjustable Octave Up, Octave Down, and Fifth Up Controls; Simulating Organ, Synth or 12-String Sound (10094)

Amazing pedal!

It took me a few days to get used to this pedal. The octave pedal on my board before this one was an EHX Multiplexer. As a bass player, I was looking to be able get the sub octave sound I was used to with the Multiplexer and also have the added bonus of adding octave up sounds and/or fifths as needed. Out-of-the-box, my first impression left me worried that I would not be able to dial in the same 'Pino Palladino' sound that I was able to get out of the Multiplexer.After a few days tweaking knobs, I've discovered that the bottom line with this pedal is that you usually have to adjust at least 2 (sometimes all 4) of the knobs to get each sound that you're looking for. That being said, I'm really glad I didn't return the pedal after the first day. Although it's taken some time, I can now reliably (and quickly) dial in the 'Pino' sound using the sub octave, an 8-string bass sound using the octave up and kind of a cool 'organ' sound by blending in the fifth.If you are bassist, looking for an octave pedal that can provide both sub octave and octave up sounds, I would definitely recommend it. It tracks extremely well and the tones it generates aren't too 'synthy' (which could be good or bad depending on the tone you're after). Build quality is excellent. While it seems to respond equally well to both passive and active electronics, I found with my active basses, I had to be careful not to set levels too high - doing so produced some distortion.

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