frequency analyzer or octave multiplexer

I like the LBM a lot, I think it’s my favorite of the XO Big Muffs. I haven’t tried the Neo Clone.

EHX used to make drum machines.

The Pedal Power 2+ is great, and the CIOKS DC-10 is looking even better. But they both have two big problems:

No 12VAC for the EH tubes pedals
No 40VDC for frequency analyzer and some of the other oddballs.

I use a Pedal Power 2+ and it works great, and I drilled a hole in the side of it to give 120VAC to my 40VDC adapter, which I’ve remounted into a plastic box that sits next to the PP2+. It works, but it’d be nice if the next power supply I buy had a 40VDC tap, so I didn’t have to go to the trouble just to mount it under my board and not have a wall-wart sticking out anywhere and not having to have the vertical space for a wall-wart.

The Eventide Space sounds really cool, I love the demos of it I heard. That said, it’s super expensive.

The Cathedral I’ve never tried, but I really want one now. I saw Deerhoof and their guitarist Ed Rodriguez was using one and his guitar parts sounded great.

I’ve never played a POG2. I briefly owned a POG that I won in a proguitarshop contest, but because I owned a HOG already, I sold the POG. The detune feature is nice on the POG, but it’s not an absolutely necessity.

I absolutely love the polyphonic whammy capability of the HOG. And the freeze gliss mode is killer. If you half-cock the expression pedal, you’ll get the notes constantly glissing and it gives this weird eastern slimy sounding reverb that’s pretty awesome.

The spectral gate on the HOG can be very useful as well. It takes the harmonics out of your guitar signal so that the octaves don’t sound like guitar octaves.

The attack/decay controls allow for more possibilities- you can set different attack times for the low and high voices. You can also set them to decay quicker, which is nice.

The other expression modes and the switch for the envelope on/off are nice. I don’t really use the expression footswitch much, because I use the expression pedal. I wish they would have wired that up to do something more useful.

Since I’m guessing you like shoegaze (Since you have the devi ever shoegazer) I think the HOG would be perfect for that. One thing that’s fun is running it in parallel with a straight fuzz sound. You can get these sort of whalesong and flute sounds from the HOG on one channel (maybe with a little tremolo and verb for added shimmer) while in the other channel you’ve got a straight fuzz sound. I believe I’ve got some clips on my soundclick site (check my sig)

Another thing with the HOG is that if you have the foot controller (I don’t, I need to get one) you could call up multiple presets in a song, in any order you want, which could be useful for live performance. Cycling through them on the POG2 could sound cool though too.

POG2 might have better tracking/less latency since it’s neweer. I’m not sure about that. I never really notice the latency on the HOG, but complicated chords- while they don’t really glitch- they can sound pretty messy. Your typical majors, minors, and 7ths all sound pretty good though. I play a lot of weird tunings, so that’s where I get that from.

I have an SMMH myself. I like it, I don’t find myself using it much for anything outside of verb (which it doesn’t do that great) and looping. I’m thinking about getting a Cathedral and putting the SMMH on my synth board. Although if I get a new looper (that Vox one looks sweet, and also I’ve wanted a 2880 forever) & I get a Deluxe Memory Boy (or make my own delay), then maybe I’ll part with the SMHM. Or just put it on my synth board.

As a HOG owner, what made you get a POG2 as well?

BOSS FS 5U ??