I’d be inclined to say first in the chain, but that’s likely only because it’s got the word ‘octave’ in it so I naturally want to feed it a dry signal. If you watch the ‘Effectology’ vids you’ll notice that a lot of the time the POG (be it micro, or POG2) is placed after a big muff or some other distortion, and sometimes even after a modulation effect, whilst other times it’s second in the chain generally after a compressor, so I suppose you’ll just have to use trial and error to see where it sounds best for you.

http://www.experimentalistsanonymous.com/diy/Schematics/Guitar Synth and Misc Signal Shapers/Electro Harmonix Bass Synthesizer.jpg

A schem’ that size scares the life outa me, have fun with it xD

EDIT: Don’t know why the link’s showing up like that, copy the whole thing and paste it into your browser

Oh, you’re right about that, do EHX not do an FX loop pedal then? *hint hint*

This happens with nearly every ‘vintage’ pedal in the world. It’s do to with how the bypass switch is wired; the input is always connected to the effect input, even when bypassed, meaning half of your signal is going into the muff circuit when you’re not using it, and most likely ending up being flushed to ground with some leakage into the output (which you can hear).

Quick solution; wire it for true-bypass, or if you don’t know how to, take it to a professional. They’ll probably charge you about £15 for it as the switch for true-bypass is expensive, £5 on it’s own, so £15 for this modification is reasonable.

If you want to avoid opening it up you can always use an FX loop pedal (like the EHX Switchblade) this, shockingly, is cheaper to make yourself than it is to pay someone to mod the pedal for you, it will however take up more room on your board.

Your call!

Hope this helped.

I’m not sure what you’re asking here. Are you asking why the Micro POG isn’t true-bypass? There really isn’t an answer for that question, but I can confirm that you’re right about it not being true bypass.

Maybe a 3pdt simply wouldnt fit into the case with everything else, or the manufacturing costs had to be kept under a certain amount and including true bypass would have resulted in a non-cost-effective product, don’t think we’ll ever know. Very few pedals with two outputs are true bypass (Marshall Echohead, EHX SMM with Hazarai, EHX Cathedral, and so on), so maybe it was a decision between having the wet/dry output option or having true bypass and EHX found that the two output option was the way forward.

You could always buy an EHX Switchblade and put the microPOG in the FX loop, this would act as a true-bypass switch. Even better make your own, these are the easiest kind of pedals to make; no components in them whatsoever, just 4 jacks and a switch (assuming you’re not fussed about an LED).

Hope this helps!

EDIT: Just noticed the Switchblade is an ABY pedal, not a loop pedal, so ignore that bit. This is what I mean by loop pedal;
http://superkingpedals.com/images/pedals/superlooper.png

Putting your signal through any electrical component (let alone an amplifier) will distort it’s phase to some degree, so your two signals are almost definately ‘out of phase’. You can build a simple 1:1 phase inverting buffer which you can use on one of your signal chains to see if it improves your sound or not, other than that there’s no real way of phase-aligning your two signal paths. Either way phase won’t be an issue if both signals are treated differently so don’t worry about things like phase cancellation etc.

If anyone here’s bought a POG2 in the past 6-8 weeks (new) and their presets are saving as they should even after cutting power from the unit can you please say so? I’ve cancelled my POG2 order for now, just don’t want to take the risk.