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  • August 3, 2010 at 8:57 am #80559
    AndiSaitenhieb
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    Hi folks!

    I want to add an Hammond organ type of sound to my blues/bluesrock trio (standard trio: drums, bass, and me on guitar & vox). I found out about the micro pog, the pog 2, the hog and it´s additional pedal and the micro synthesizer.

    The micro pog can´t store and the micro synthesizer is monophonic, so I have to decide between POG 2 and HOG.
    Is there a substantial difference between the two units or is the POG2 just a smaller & cheaper version of the HOG? (like the micro POG is a smaller and cheaper version of the POG2)

    I found the differences that
    – the POG2 has a memory of 8 spaces and the HOG only 6 (with additional foot control pedal)
    – the HOG has more sliders/intervals and more FX.

    Thanks a lot for your infos/help!

    Andi

    August 3, 2010 at 3:01 pm #110638
    julian
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    Well the HOG does a pretty good Hammond sound: https://www.ehx.com/forums/viewthread/1387/

    The extra intervals (which happen to also be the Hammond intervals), spectral gate, and ability to make the upper notes have a quick decay are a plus on the HOG. Plus there’s a ton of other awesome stuff like freeze gliss.

    The POG2 has the detune control which is nice because you can simultaneously have clean octaves and detuned octaves. With the HOG expression pedal you can detune your octaves, but you can’t have them mixed with an undetuned octave, so it doesn’t have quite the same effect.

    August 9, 2010 at 8:02 am #110785
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    Hi, Andi!

    Quote:
    Is there a substantial difference between the two units or is the POG2 just a smaller & cheaper version of the HOG? (like the micro POG is a smaller and cheaper version of the POG2)

    I found the differences that
    – the POG2 has a memory of 8 spaces and the HOG only 6 (with additional foot control pedal)
    – the HOG has more sliders/intervals and more FX.

    As Julian just noted, there are some substantial differences between the two pedals. However, since you found this site and presumably have read through the relevant product descriptions and listened to demos, I suspect that you’re asking a different question: Is there a substantial different between the organ sounds of the POG and the HOG?

    If you don’t need full-out drawbar setting compatibility with a Hammond, the POG and POG2 are good enough.

    If your question is actually “What features would I get with a HOG that aren’t on the POG/POG2?,” there are a lot of them. If you’re not interested in Freeze, Gliss or whammy type stuff, and having the ability to do the Hammond percussion and full drawbar set doesn’t matter, then the POG2 will probably do well for you. And, if you’d never be interesting in exploring those features, then yes, for you the POG2 would just be a smaller and cheaper version of the HOG, in the same way that, for someone not interested in more options, a Melody Maker is just a smaller and cheaper version of a tricked out Les Paul. If it fits all your needs, there’s no need to spend more.

    September 8, 2010 at 1:05 am #111302
    efilho
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    I tried a POG2 and was quite impressed with the “organ sounds” you can get out of it! I thought would be good to have acompressor in front of it though!

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