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    gellettama20
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    So, my band is down a bass player, and I’m unbelievably sick of looking for one. I want to run my guitar through an ABY pedal to send the signal to (1) my guitar pedal board and into the guitar amp and (2) my bass pedals and bass amp. I would love a pedal that would make my guitar sound like a bass. Now I know what you’re thinking- “This idiot has apparently never heard of an octave pedal.” Well, as great as a quality pitch shifter or octave pedal is, that’s not what I want. Octave pedals don’t work well with chords and unless I add compressor, and an EQ pedals I won’t get just the root notes. Even the Polly setting on the OC-3 fails on lower power chords. And then, when it does work, it still sounds like a toneless cyborg. I’m looking for a cross between the acoustic guitar/banjo/sitar simulator pedals and something like the Korg Miku pedal making a bass sound. Is there a pedal that will pull out just the lowest or loudest sound, drop it an octave, and give is a synthetic bass sound that I can then run through a bass amp? A really cool feature would be multiple bass voices similar to the Line 6 Variax basses.

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    DavyG
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    I’ve tried using the POG2 like this with the filter all the way down, it’s the best so far… but yes, still muddy with chords. I even toneprinted a SubNup with 4 pre and post-EQ filters, but those lowest notes still get garbled.
    OC3 is your best bet until EHX solves this once and for all (if they realise how popular a good one would be). I know they can because there are rack mounted units that can creat a single subbass note below the lowest note. With that said, one such rack unit might be your best option.

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