I think my favorite setting on the Micro POG is with the dry and sub about even, and upper octave set to about half of the dry and sub. Run this into a Big Muff and you have the most gnarly lead tone ever. The other thing I liked was how it sounded with a Flanger Hoax up front, it tracked the FH perfectly no matter what the settings on either pedal were. It also looks super cool (yeah it matters), and is obviously way way easier to incorporate into a pedalboard than it’s bigger brothers.

Cons (in order of how much they annoyed me): No low pass filter, no detune, only three voices. For these reasons, I traded it in for a used POG and then traded the used POG in towards a used HOG.

Now for a comparison of the three, to help anyone trying to make an informed decision: I find the HOG has similarly voiced octaves to the Micro Pog and the tracking is pretty well just as fast, so if you only use the dry, +1 and -1 sliders with the filter turned all the way up you basically have a Micro POG. The POG was different to my ears, the upper octaves had a slightly more ‘natural’ sound (despite noticeably slower tracking) and the detuned voices were a godsend for finding that perfect organ tone. I’ve had the best results replicating this organic thickness by running a subtly flanging Polychorus after the HOG, but it was nice having an entire organ in one medium-sized box. All three boxes are capable of producing a decent bass sound, the POG tracks a little slower but sounds a little fatter. The HOG’s resonance control offers the most control tonally, but the Micro POG requires no tweaking to find a great sound. Just turn up the knob and play.

Neither the POG or the HOG react as flawlessly to the pedals in front of them as the Micro POG does. Also, the Micro POG was way less noisy than the POG and slightly quieter than the HOG when you’re running it into a fuzzbox. I would call the POG noisy, even though I didn’t notice until I was running a Big Muff after it. If you use too many intervals on the HOG, it will come out of the fuzzbox sounding like a big huge mess so I usually stick to ‘Micro POG settings’ for fat solos. The resonance control on the HOG allows you to get that half-cocked wah sound right off the bat, a major plus, although the HOG takes up considerably more pedalboard space than a Micro POG and a wah pedal would so the value is questionable…

All three pedals are rock solid when tracking chords in the +1 and -1 octaves, even more complex chords sound great. Obviously the more voices you introduce, the messier the chord will get. This is most noticeable with the fifth and third sliders on the HOG; because you are getting fifths and thirds above fourths and thirds above thirds, you’re bound to encounter some dissonance. It’s not really an issue of tracking so much as harmonic mathematics, but 7th chords in particular are a horrendous mess when you have too many sliders turned up. However, it’s okay because if you’re using the harmonic settings on the HOG, you can play a single note and have a full chord come out the other side. For that reason, the HOG wins for creating organ tones with a bass. Also, rather than playing full chords you can just play a simple interval and the HOG will fill in the rest of the notes. For example, you can play the just the root and the 7th and get a much cleaner 7th chord. Or, you can just turn the harmonic sliders down and play whatever you want through the octave sliders. The +3 and +4 octaves seemed extremely goofy to me at the beginning, but they add richness in a way similar to the POG’s detune settings and for that they’re indispensable.

Now I obviously neglected to mention any of the expression modes on the HOG. Because the HOG has features that go well above and beyond what the other two are capable of, there’s not really much point mentioning them in a comparison. The pitch bends are fun even though I think Whammy effects are dangerously cheesy. The glissando modes are absolutely incredible, and the filter sweep is really really great for getting that ‘Bassically / Nativity in Black’ bass sound without ever plugging in a bass guitar. I don’t understand the logic behind putting in a wah AND a filter sweep, but I’m sure some people get use out of both modes. The preset footswitch is a great idea, but the HOG is really the only box of the three with enough sounds to justify presets. I would like to see a POG with a second footswitch for toggling between two settings so you can go from organ to guitar+bass with the click of a switch, but the benefits of this are pretty small – especially when you consider that the HOG already exists.

That’s really all that I can think of, sorry for the length of the post there’s alot to cover! I hope it helps.

nice review :thumb:

im getting the micro pog first

ive ordered it on tuesday, 2-3 weeks

i was debating between this and the pog2 but as im new to all the octave pedals etc, i thought id go for something simple like the micro pog, and if i like it sell it get the pog2

looking forward to it coming

ive also got the white finger compressor and big muff with tone wicker

I cant say enough good things about the Micro Pod.
I use mine in the loop along with a Rotosphere a delay and a Holy Grail.
You want to talk psychedelic!…I can get a B3 sound with Hendrix overtones.

By far the coolest pedal I own.