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  • March 17, 2012 at 9:25 pm #82150
    RazorBladeRay
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    okay so I looked at the Boss OC3 and Electro Harmonix Octave Multiplexer, I noticed it does not track for chords. I’m looking for a octave pedal to make my guitar sound like a 8-string bass not the coursed kind like a 12 string guitar, I mean an extended 8 string bass, is their any pedal that will make my guitar that will sound like a bass that can track chords and wont give it a weird glitchy sound,that can do slap and pop and track tapped harmonic,pinch harmonic’s?

    March 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm #117142
    The EH Man
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    Try a POG2 or a HOG.

    March 17, 2012 at 10:58 pm #117143
    RazorBladeRay
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    thanks man, when you play bass lines from that pedal does it track well for chords to simulate a bass guitar? or doing slap or pop?

    March 17, 2012 at 11:01 pm #117144
    The EH Man
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    Sorry, I don’t use either.

    April 30, 2012 at 7:10 pm #117453
    celticelk
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    I’d take a look at the Ring Thing, which has a polyphonic pitch shifter feature. Ultimately, though, you’re just not going to get a realistic bass sound out of an 8-string – the physics of the string tension, gauge, and scale length simply will not produce the same tone. (And I say that as someone who plays 8-string!)

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