electric mandolin with octave pedal

[hhold]

Hi

has anyone ever tried an electric 4/5 string mandolin with an octave pedal to get an Octave mandolin/mandocello sound range? How good was the sound?

hH

[mandelect]

Yes, i've tried many combinations of octave/pitchshifting over the years, both with my electric mandolins and mandolas. Some worked well for single note bass lines, but not many work well if you want to play chords. I've had some success with the Electro Harmonix Slammi and Pitchfork; either of these work fairly well on chords. I sometimes use the Pitchfork to tune my mandolins down an octave and my mandolas down a 4th to octave mandolin tuning. I have also used the Pitchfork at the 2 octaves down setting, to get a low C on my mandola, which is one semitone above the low B string on a 5 string bass. Poly-pitch shifting has got so much better and cleaner over the last few years, but sometimes you can still hear little glitches and other pitch shifting artefacts.

[darrylicshon]

I have used a octave pedal and a pitchshift also and the same for me it works good for single notes but not well for chords

[Mandobart]

The Electro-Harmonix POG is supposed to be able to shift entire chords as well as single notes - I haven't tried one out yet. Anyone else give one a spin?

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...FU8vgQodI0wDsg

[spufman]

The POG, Micro POG and HOG are indeed polyphonic and designed to sound very clean. I have the raunchier MXR Bass Octave Deluxe which works fine for single notes on bass and guitar, but my Mandobird does not trigger it very well. Normally you want the octave pedal first in the chain, but in this case I think I need to try a clean boost in front, the 'bird is somewhat low output.

[mandelect]

Sorry about the double post...

[mandelect]

The POG, Micro POG and HOG are indeed polyphonic and designed to sound very clean.

As are the Pitchfork and Slammi. Bill Ruppert demonstrates their polyphonic pitch shifting capabilities particularly well, and as I said, I use them both to tune my electric mandola down a 4th to octave mandolin GDAE tuning. Chords sound great though I can make them glitch a tiny bit if I try hard enough ;-)

I have tried the Pog too, and there is little if any difference in their polyphonic pitch shifting quality. If anything, the Pitchfork and Slammi (and the Hog too) have an advantage in that they are not limited to octave, two octave pitch shifts. Watch the Bill Ruppert demo vids where in one segment, he uses them full wet to shift his guitar into baritone tuning.

[hhold]

Thank you all for your replies.
Has anyone ever posted a video demonstrating one of the pedals with a mandolin?

[Django Fret]

Here is one of a mandolin using an octave pedal:

[Wupeide]

In a bit of a rush, but I wanted to chime in. I have done this before. I have the Boss octave pedal - I don't recall the model number. It's a brown color.

I use it with a Mann 4 string electric. I am looking forward to trying it with my new 5 string when that arrives.

It has difficulty with tracking multiple strings and sounds a little digital. However, I do like the tone - though sometimes you have to be careful to mute some strings. If they vibrate a bit too much they interfere with the tracking.

I used it with a band I play with and we had a lot of fun. At the time we didn't have anyone to play bass.

Hope this helps.

-Peter

[Explorer]

The Boss OC-2 is a mono pedal. I suspect this is what you have.

The Boss OC-3, in addition to having the Boss Oc-2's monophonic mode, also has a polyphonic mode, and even allows choosing the point above which the octave isn't produced. It's meant for a guitarist to have bass notes corresponding to the lowest two strings and such, but it would work on mando as well.