wesfinn Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hey all just to give everyone a heads up. theres a new company just started up in sussex by my friend. his website is bigfootengineering.com. His first pedal he is releasing will be the octopuss. I'm should be road testing this for him in the next few weeks. its the worlds first powerless (no batterys or p/s required!) octave up pedal, to use it you need to have it after a decent distortion pedal. sounds quite exciting so ill keep you all posted on how it sounds! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Sounds interesting this. How does it actually work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamapirate Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I'm presuming it takes the hot signal from the OD and puts it through some transistors and capacitors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher1993 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) [quote name='iamapirate' post='623566' date='Oct 11 2009, 10:28 PM']I'm presuming it takes the hot signal from the OD and puts it through some transistors and capacitors?[/quote] How vague can you get?! Probably right though. I'm guessing it's similar to the Green Ringer. Edited October 12, 2009 by gnasher1993 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ase_one23 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 [quote name='iamapirate' post='623566' date='Oct 11 2009, 10:28 PM']I'm presuming it takes the hot signal from the OD and puts it through some transistors and capacitors?[/quote] would this then give it a different sound than a regular octave pedal? cause although i'm interested, i don't think there's much need for a pedal that doesn't use power, most of us will have a daisy chain or power unit, and if you need power for 1 pedal on your board it's no hassle for them all to be powered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesfinn Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 theres a sound clip on his website. click the 8 legged cat www.bigfootengineering.com its done with a guitar but it should sound great with a bass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher1993 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 We're not asking how it sounds. How does it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protium Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Is it polyphonic? And can you use it without a powered pedal? (needing the distortion kind of defeats the object of a purely passive device) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phagor Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Interesting. If it's passive, it won't contain any transistors. My guess is it's basically a rectifier using diodes that flips the negative part of the bass signal up to the positive, so getting two humps in the waveform for the price of one. Since it doesn't do any tracking, it could work with polyphonic signals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ase_one23 Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 (edited) [quote name='gnasher1993' post='624145' date='Oct 12 2009, 04:28 PM']We're not asking how it sounds. How does it work?[/quote] ahem. i'm asking how it sounds i dont care if there's a small pixie in there who listens to the note played then sings it back an octave higher - long as it sounds cool! Edited October 12, 2009 by ase_one23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Fly Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 [quote name='phagor' post='624412' date='Oct 12 2009, 08:59 PM'](...) My guess is it's basically a rectifier using diodes that flips the negative part of the bass signal up to the positive, so getting two humps in the waveform for the price of one.(...)[/quote] I though exactly the same thing. I am not entirely sure but in theory a bridge of Schottky diodes and some filtering to remove the DC component should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesfinn Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 [quote name='ase_one23' post='624415' date='Oct 12 2009, 09:01 PM']ahem. i'm asking how it sounds i dont care if there's a small pixie in there who listens to the note played then sings it back an octave higher - long as it sounds cool![/quote] yeah im with you on this one! i dont know how it actually works, i havnt asked him. i like the pixie idea though, some say that there is a miniture 8 legged cat inside that meows the octave back to you through a tiny mega phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ase_one23 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 [quote name='wesfinn' post='626731' date='Oct 15 2009, 10:13 AM']some say that there is a miniture 8 legged cat inside that meows the octave back to you through a tiny mega phone.[/quote] well we know what the artwork should be now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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