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Obviously it’ll need to sound good but outside of confirming that with my own ears. Form and function it’s perfect. Most of all I love it’s a bassist first pedal, the octavers aren’t an after thought, it has a noble on there, I could go on and on, just 👌

Exciting

Isn’t that the HX One? For me where Line 6 went wrong with that is not making it like the Zoom MS series, where you can have a few fx in a chain and simple turn the chain on and off. I understand why they didn’t, it would make the HX one too much of a value proposition to the Stomp. After that, as most of the market is guitar focused, they just don’t seem to care about XLR outs.

Sorry I've got that the wrong way round. Expr on the return and a trs (insert cable) on the send. 1h 3m 38s But its controlled i believe by the fx loop block and you have 4 modes, one does this function

Expression is on the send jack and fx loop is on the return using a trs cable.

Sounds like I’ll be selling the T-16 and Pearl then 😅

It maybe be I have to spend more time with it 😅

It will be a few weeks before I have them all in-front of me. Far as I know the Pearl tracks like the OC2, its the original John Davis Nerve sound, just the oc2 is more robust for the road so he ended up moving to that. I had one 10-15 years ago but I wasn’t as familiar with using octaves for synth sounds, now I’m excited to try it again and see how it fairs against the more common suspects. My thoughts on octavers are there are generally two types, the more accurate natural sounding mxr bod, aguilar octomizer etc and then the really synthy OC2 type, that the Pearl and I assume T-16 fall into. As it’s so hard (expensive) to find an octaver that is footswitchable between mixed and 100% wet, I find it’s easier to have two. So far (and I haven’t played my recent BOD but I’ve had 2 previously) this is most musical and natural sounding octave I’ve played. I’m heavily inspired by Michael League’s use of his and that’s why I’ve picked up another. Then the T-16 and Pearl are going to fight it out, it’ll probably come down to space/size but I’m keen to see if they beat out my Sonicake Octaver which (to me) is a very accurate OC2 clone for next to nothing. Attached is the route I’m thinking, only the oc2 would be the pearl and the phat phuk the Cream Pie Deluxe (as neither are on the planner). I don’t need it all at once but it’s melting my brain trying to find a way to have small pedal boards for little projects here and there when I’d like all those creative options just there to indulge when it suits. To keep inline with the thread, my latest pedal purchase is a Mojo Hand 442 filter, my favourite but I’ve so far only been able to track down the guitar version 🤷‍♂️ probably fine, worst case I think it’s a simple mod to make it the bass/red version. Deco v2 I’ve had sat for like 4 months waiting for me to grab it. Capo is the third I’ve owned and relatively new to me. Bod as above Wetter box I need to buy and I’m still deciding if this is excessive, mainly depends on if I stick with the capo and deco. Pearl (shown as an oc2) as above

Nice I bought the Cog T16 and The Pearl Octave Also have an MXR Bass Octave Deluxe inbound so can have another shootout and decide my preference.

I think it’s a very valid point and at the very least helps you separate gear into what is (potentially) an investment and what is and will always just be a tool. I have a few things that I know won’t be fully functional in 10-20 years time (Boss Katana Go, Darkglass Element) I just take comfort in knowing that I’ll have sold them 5 times over by then. But at this moment in time they solve an issue and provide a convenience. As more and more pedals go digital and require apps to access deeper functions we’ll see this becoming more and more of an issue. For example the Digitech istomp, sure it’ll work with whatever the last effect you loaded on it but you’ll never load something else on. What about TC toneprints if they ever discontinue the app? How will you upload presets to the pedal when your phone is just a chip in your head? And when you’re spending £1400 on a Quad Cortex it’s good to remember that in 5 years time it might be worth £600…… at best