NPD - MXR Poly Blue Octave

[javi_bassist]

20 hours ago, stewblack said:

I use mine for this as I only ever play with one other instrument (not counting drums and vocals).

Mix the single octave up with the clean signal , a tiny smidge of 1 octave down, and a tickle of 2 up and it enriches the sound beautifully.

If I'm using a biamped rig it really sings 

 

When you use it, do you play in the lower part of the neck or do you go the upper register?

[stewblack]

2 hours ago, javi_bassist said:

 

When you use it, do you play in the lower part of the neck or do you go the upper register?

Irritating answer is, that depends!

If I'm just playing  bass behind a solo I have hardly any octave down so I'll play it normally. 

If I'm going for a synthy sound then I'll have 1 octave down  full on, mono button in, and play higher.

[stewblack]

I felt like I had a breakthrough with my Poly Blue last night. I used it on several songs, adjusting on the fly each time, and the sound was astonishing.

The combination of phase, octaves and the 'mono' button produced a quite remarkable sound.  

Is this an octave pedal? Or is it a multi effects pedal? I used it to thicken the sound of one song played higher up the fretboard - a song which didn't need that synthy sound - for a disco synth sound, for a huge funky semi synth, which, combined with an envelope filter was wonderful.

Truly my favourite pedal. 

[BreadBin]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

I felt like I had a breakthrough with my Poly Blue last night. I used it on several songs, adjusting on the fly each time, and the sound was astonishing.

The combination of phase, octaves and the 'mono' button produced a quite remarkable sound.  

Is this an octave pedal? Or is it a multi effects pedal? I used it to thicken the sound of one song played higher up the fretboard - a song which didn't need that synthy sound - for a disco synth sound, for a huge funky semi synth, which, combined with an envelope filter was wonderful.

Truly my favourite pedal. 

Funnily enough I had a similar experience after reading this thread. I particularly enjoy giving it a fat fuzz from my Wooly Mammoth clone, mono mode,  both octaves up and a bit of modulation makes for some incredibly juicy tones