Okay kiddies, it's review time again (after saving myself from a musical slump...grrr) and I'm up for a change.
Since I've done the whole Distortion thing, lets got onto the fun stuff.
Today's pleasure is the Boss Super Octave, a beast of a stomper with miles and miles of potential under it's bullet-proof belt.
So, in a nutshell, it's an octave shifter, and lets you drop your tuning by one, two or both octaves. It also gives you the (rather strange) option called Drive, which is basically a built in *sigh* distortion.
We have a Guitar In, Bass In (2 octave down with a BASS????!!!!) a Direct Out and a Mono Output. It's all fun kiddies, so lets dissect.
BUILD
Need I say it? It's Boss. Just lick the damn thing, it's SAS proof.
PRICE
RRP as £89, can be hunted down cheaper .
SOUND
It's a funny fish, this one. Splitting a signal always brings in issues like tracking and muddying up the signal at the output. This piece does it better than other's I've had my paws on (the music stores hate me...) but getting octaves to sound with the origional signal is a bit...
So, One octave down, really cool sound, like a Bass and Guitar playing in almost perfect unison.
Two octaves down, it's double bass time.
All 3? Wow...pure gravel, room shaking, neighbour annoying brown noise.
Incidentally, the unit is a metallic brown colour...pop culture reference anyone?
Drive puts a thick fuzz in with an octave making it very, VERY muddy. Thick and chunky. Yummy.
OVERVIEW
Useful for clean, weird riffing, or just about anything else you can squeeze out of it. Wont ever replace an actual Bassist but, I'm gonna fess up, this thing is just fun!
