TC Electronic Sub 'N' Up, anyone have experience with this pedal

[shoulderpet]

Does anyone have experience with this pedal? My band has a couple of songs where the bass goes really high up the neck, I have a bass with 24 frets but I would rather just take one bass to rehearsals and gigs, how is the octave up function on this and is it good enough that I could use it to go up an octave on a bass solo?  Thanks

[Baloney Balderdash]

1 minute ago, shoulderpet said:

Does anyone have experience with this pedal? My band has a couple of songs where the bass goes really high up the neck, I have a bass with 24 frets but I would rather just take one bass to rehearsals and gigs, how is the octave up function on this and is it good enough that I could use it to go up an octave on a bass solo?  Thanks

No, and you won't find an octave pedal that is.

[shoulderpet]

37 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

No, and you won't find an octave pedal that is.

Thank you for the no nonsense reply, just saved me the cost of the pedal

[Baloney Balderdash]

15 minutes ago, shoulderpet said:

Thank you for the no nonsense reply, just saved me the cost of the pedal

Yeah, pitching up your signal a whole octave, with a regular octaver, without any more complex synthesising going on, it is always going to sound rather artificial, no matter how great the octaver otherwise is.

 

And to my knowledge there isn't really any viable solutions on the market that would do this convincingly. 

 

It's another matter when you mix the octave signal with the original signal, and add some overdrive and EQ to the pitched up signal, then you can get something somewhat passable out of it.

 

But for your use I would assume the result would not be satisfactory, and frankly waste of money.

 

You would end up with something that would sound somewhat more like a synth than a bass.

 

Now this can of course be used as an effect, but I got the impression that is not what you had in mind.

 

Edited March 11 by Baloney Balderdash

[shoulderpet]

21 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

You would end up with something that would sound somewhat more like a synth than a bass.

 

Now this can of course be used as an effect, but I got the impression that is not what you had in mind.

 

No, more like the bass part at the end of this song is more what I'm going for

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[agoulding]

I had a sub n up for a while. Couldn't get on with the artificial sound of it. Sounded goofy to me.