So....what WOULD 7 OC-2s sound like chained together??

[Sibob]

*Don't worry, there is a video below*

For as long as I've had my little collection of Boss OC-2s, people have asked the inevitable; "what do they sound like all together?".

Up to this point I'd never tried because, well, that's silly right?! 

Well here it is, a very quick hit of my 7 OC-2s together.

The looped bass 'riff' had to start high on the bass neck to accommodate the stacked low octaves as best as possible. We ignore the -2 octave control, and so each pedal starts with no direct signal and 100% -1 level. Once all on, we start to introduce the clean blend on each pedal. I have to ride the Input gain of the recording device a bit, simply because of the sheer amount of signal going on, but once we get to OC-2 number 5 & onwards, they start to overload each other. So the distortion that you're hearing is not a clipped signal into the iTrack Pocket, but OC-2 pedal 5, 6 & 7 themselves clipping.

Helpful? No

Silly? Yes

Have fun. 

*USE HEADPHONES OR DECENT SPEAKERS".

 

For the geeks who get this far, bass is a US Lakland 44-94 passive P/J, and the OC-2s are one of each iteration of the pedal, as follows:

- Black Label Japan Octaver

- Black Label Japan Octaver

- Black Label Japan Octave (lighter paint)

- Black Label Taiwan Octave (darker paint)

--Silver Label Taiwan Octave

- plus two extra un-boxed Octavers. I tend to gig these two.

Si

[CameronJ]

This is hilarious and excellent in equal measure. Good work, sir ?

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited February 25, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Quatschmacher]

Literally one for every day of the week! @CameronJ, this makes your idea of having 3 Octamizers a less outlandish proposal that it first appeared.

Interesting how this fits the theme of “if you could choose just one octave pedal”; so you get to do both - having only one but also having many. (Though do I spy a Sub ‘n’ Up in the left of the frame?)

Edited November 27, 2017 by Quatschmacher

[radiophonic]

That's the most hardcore pedal board ever.  The sound turns into something between a heartbeat and breathing... which might actually be usable in some contexts. I'd like to hear it through a D&B rig though.

[Al Krow]

Si -  why only seven?  If you cornered the market in OC2s you could drive up the price and maybe also start a theme park with entry fees and drooling filter feeding bass players? ?  

[Sibob]

6 hours ago, Quatschmacher said:

Literally one for every day of the week! @CameronJ, this makes your idea of having 3 Octamizers a less outlandish proposal that it first appeared.

Interesting how this fits the theme of “if you could choose just one octave pedal”; so you get to do both - having only one but also having many. (Though do I spy a Sub ‘n’ Up in the left of the frame?)

Yeah, there's a Sub'n'Up on one of my boards (which also has an OC-2), I only use it for the +1 octave.

I also have a COG T-16 and a Line6 M5 (which models the EBS Octave) that I could have thrown into the fray, but this is the OC-2 party really ;).

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

Si -  why only seven?  If you cornered the market in OC2s you could drive up the price and maybe also start a theme park with entry fees and drooling filter feeding bass players? ?  

I did have 9 at one point, but it's ultimately a bit silly right, so now I just have one of every iteration, boxed etc, with a couple of extras....which of course is completely not silly.

Si

[Al Krow]

Well if you have a COG T16 you're clearly a man of taste (that's actually a serious point!) and the Sub'n'Up is another class act, or so @dood assures me, apart from the fact they decided to make the monophonic setting glitch like a trooper below an Ab so that they could emulate the 'worst of' an analogue octaver's feature set. Why?

But, as you say, merely having seven OC2, when each one is a different iteration is completely not silly, whereas nine would definitely be the transition from OC-2 mania to bordering on OC-D? 

Thanks for brightening up a dreary Monday morning!

[charic]

What if you set them alternative down one octave and up one octave? (assuming the OC2 has a +1 octave)

[Sibob]

8 minutes ago, charic said:

What if you set them alternative down one octave and up one octave? (assuming the OC2 has a +1 octave)

OC-2 does not have +1, just -1 & -2.

Si

[charic]

Damn

[Al Krow]

11 minutes ago, charic said:

Damn

It's analogue. I'm not sure that there any analogue octave pedals that do a decent octave up?

For a really good octave up you could do worse than the EHX Pitchfork, which I felt pipped the TC Sub'n'Up in terms of live use flexibility and slightly tighter tracking and which does a whole bunch of other stuff as well! 

[charic]

I just wanted to hear what a note sounded like at it's original pitch after being back and forth, up and down octaves

[elephantgrey]

Damn it, now I need one to put in the feedback loop with my delay and 'verb for ambiant soundscapes.

 

Edit: might throw my filter in there too.

Edited November 27, 2017 by elephantgrey

[totorbass]

Much easier to carry than your toilets, and sounds quite the same.

[cheddatom]

brilliant!

[Quatschmacher]

5 hours ago, Al Krow said:

whereas nine would definitely be the transition from OC-2 mania to bordering on OC-D? 

I see what you did there.

I have CDO - it’s like OCD but the letters are arranged alphabetically. 

Edited November 27, 2017 by Quatschmacher

[lee650]

Lol bonkers!!! I need an OC2 again!! I keep selling them and regretting it

[Quatschmacher]

36 minutes ago, lee650 said:

Lol bonkers!!! I need an OC2 again!! I keep selling them and regretting it

...and they all keep ending up at @Sibob‘s house!

[tonyquipment]

Click bait horror lol 

 

but  I actually quite enjoyed that heh ???

[radiophonic]

Weirdly, Youtube just recommended me a Janek Gwizdala video and in it, somebody asks him 'what happens if you connect all your OC2's together'. He suggests doing it in a club and blowing up their PA.