Octave Guitar Pedal, Analog Classic Lower Octave Guitar Effects Pedal for Guitar & Bass, True Bypass - Octaver

I am a musician that has been performing for 30 years on the stage, in the studio and stage on a a professional. I have a degree in guitar performance and I play everything from classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock, pop, etc...I have owned approximately 75 pedals currently and have owned twice as many through the years. Yes, I am addicted to shopping for guitars, pedals, amps....you get the point. I am going to first talk about the build of the pedal. It is in a small 3.5" x 1.5" x 1.5". It is built like a tank in a durable metal casing. It does have 3 plastic knobs that have rubber rings around them. I am guessing this is used for both gripping and turining the knobs comfortably and to protect them. It also has a regular size knob in the center that is common on many pedals on the market. That being said, the hardware is great quality and I believe this pedal could withstand the day to day abuse from a professional performer for years if not a life time. The build is simply very high quality for the price. I first decided to try this pedal using a clean sound. It has the following 4 adjustable functions: 1. "Sense" knob - The large knob in the middle. It acts as a tone filter/sentativity for the sound. Turn the knob all the way to the left and you get a really throaty wah sound and as you turn the knob to the Right the tone brightens. As you pick softer you get more of that "Cry" sound. I found a good sweet spot for a wah sound was this knob between 10 to 11 o'clock. This could be different depending on the guitar and amp etc...you are using. 2. "Freq" controls the frequency. I like this knob a little before 12 0' clock 3. "Decay" I found this knob sounds best turned all the way to the right for a more intense wah sound. 4. "Pres" Presence knob - acts just like a presence knob on an amp. Fine tunes and smooths out the sound. I liked this best at 2 o'clock. The above settings for each knob was what worked for me as far as getting a professional wah sound. Now, as I experimented with turning the knobs, I found I could get synth like swelling sounds to actually using the pedal as an equalizer to get more of a muted sound for jazz tones or get more of a "Fuzz" sound running it through disortion. I also found I could use the pedal to "melow" the sound and make my bridge pickup on a Les Paul sound like the neck pickup on a tell or a neck pickup on a Les Paul itself. I could get a lot of different cool tones just from this tiny pedal. The sensativity of each of the knobs used to change each setting are very sensitive and usable unlike other higher end auto wahs or filter pedals I have used in the past where I could not tell whether turning the knobs did anything. This pedal is especially great for funk and syncapated rifts where dynamics are needed to help accent certain notes or making different percussive sounds in between notes or chords. This pedal I will be using for live performances and studio. When I purchased it, I did not plan on using it except as a toy to play with per say and wasn't expecting how professional, clean, and sturdy this pedal is. This pedel is true bypass and there is no drop in the volume when engaged. No popping, no fizzle, and the sound does not manipulate the original signal that can cause the intergrity of your sound to change. Summary: This pedal is as sturdy as it gets. Super versatile as it can be used as a auto wah, equalizer/filter, synth tones, etc... Professional sound quality and sounds better than pedals I spent 4 plus times for. I have owned auto wahs from the popular cock fight pedal (which I returned), to all the major brands and have refused to use any of them for live or studio use. Most I have returned and have just stuck to a wah pedal. This pedal can really free you up to move around on stage and will use it for live and studio performances. I will buy another one so I can have two different settings I can utilize while performing live without adjusting the knobs and since it is so small it does not take up a lot of space on my people board. Note: I will update this with a video when I get a chance to video and record the different uses I found intriging about this pedal.

I have to start by saying I was skeptical of this pedal, but I'm helping a buddy start his rig and this hit the right price point. The first impression I had of it was the packaging. 1) the pedal is heavier than most mini-enclosure size pedals, and it stands up much more stable than other ones. 2) It's packed very well 3) They included a patch cable and pre-cut velcro for the pedal. So with that my interest got started. Upon plugging in, I quickly bonded with the chorus options, these do a really good job at getting very usable tones. You may need to crank the mix knob to get the sweet spot. I also really like the trem options, they each had different voices and I could get a couple of cool tones from each. The rate knob has a lot of range and can get really fast and slow The flange and phase sound like classic pedals, I don't personally use those effects much, so I quickly skipped over them. The LoFi mode is nuts, it's going to take some time to get used to it. A few notes/concerns. 1) This pedal was picking up noise from another pedal I had on a simple daisy chain, powered on its own it was dead quiet. So isolated power is probably the right move, which may be an issue for starter pedalboards. If you're looking for a good power solution, Sonicake has a really affordable one. 2) The LED knobs will not be as abuse resistant as metal ones, so be nice to it 3) I couldn't really find a use for the tap tempo, it's a good feature but since it doesn't do sub-divisions I had a hard time getting the trem to the right rhythm So, all in all, I would say this is a great pedal for the right people. If you're after an affordable place to start on modulation effects, a bedroom player, or need an effect with a very small spot available on your board, this is a great pedal. If you're a boutique or vintage aficionado, you may not like this and should be looking at the products made for your market.

So I’ve never used an auto-wah pedal before. I wanted to try one since I don’t much like rocking my foot back and forth like I'm having a seizure. I primarily use regular wah's for the extreme low to highs or for a pure tone boost. This is not the function of this pedal. This comes with 4 knobs, sensitivity, frequency, decay, and presence. The first thing I noticed is that the sensitivity knob almost acts like a tone knob on a guitar. This kind of gives you a range of a really muddy wobbly sound all the way up to a bright wobbly sound. Messing with the knobs showed me a couple of interesting options. For one you can dial in a nice splash spring-reverb type sound without actual reverb, which I think is the highlight of the pedal. This sounds great playing funk (as advertised) chords. I do not believe it would substitute for a classic wah pedal however as you cannot quite dial in any way over the top sounds like rocking your foot on a wah really quickly. For me this pedal is essential if you’re playing funk rock or straight funk, but you’ll still want to hold onto your wah for playing Jerry Garcia or Jimi Hendrix kind of stuff. I wish this could emulate that, minus the deduction of a star. This pedal also conveniently comes with velcro and a small dual-90 degree cable to hook up into your pedal board. It is small yet built very sturdy. The pedal is true bypass.

I have a Boss Katana amp, and really like the sound of the auto-wah. I wanted to grab a pedal so that I could throw it on my board and be able to use the effect without fiddling with my amp. I grabbed this pedal because... well it was cheap and I hoped it would get the job done. In my personal opinion, the sensitivity of the pedal makes it borderline unusable, and it never got as "wet" sounding as I wanted without literally maxing the knobs out. Since I had to max it out to get close to what I can produce from the Katana at 1/2 to 3/4 on the amp's dial, I can't give this pedal more than 3 stars. I do have to give it points for the size (it's small!) and the fact that it works. If you are looking for an auto-wah, I suggest looking at some other brands, and possibly buying used if price is an issue. Since the built-in effect on my Katana is a "Boss" auto-wah, I am willing to bet that pedal rips. After doing some more research, I ended up purchasing a nano q-tron envelope filter pedal (not exactly the same as an auto-wah, but the demos I found online won me over), and I am satisfied with that purchase.

This pedal is great. This is the second Sonicake product I have purchased and I like them both. First thing I like is the price. You get 11 effects for less than a lot of single pedals cost. This is obvious but reveals an isote into what I like about this pedal. I’ll explain. I’ve never been a fan of chorus and flanger effect, and they don’t fit in my style well or the type of music I play. So I will say this about those effects on this pedal. The perform precisely as advertised, if that is a sound you are looking for then this will work great for you. The bit crush and wawa effects are very cool and convenent and make some cool unique sounds. These are flavor adding effects and are great for that. Now to the effects I will use a lot. The tremolo effects are already used in a live video I made with my band (Alright Alright) for a holiday song. It sounds great. Tempo can be adjusted by tap tempo as well and that’s cool for live useage. The roto sound will be used live for sure by me as we have several songs with organ type songs in them. The vibrato sound is as good as the two tremolo sounds but i have not used it in a performance yet. It will Ben there too when I need that vintage sound. In fact, if you had two of these pedals you could layer the vibrato and tremolo effects for a very cool sound. All in all. I love it and it will find a place on my pedal board.

I bought this pedal because I was looking for tremolo and since this had two, I figured it would be better than getting a dedicated trem. How hard is it to make a trem effect? It's great that it has mix, rate and depth controls as some multi-pedals don't. Lot's of choices, however most are not usable or musical. For instance the flangers need rate turned way down to be familiar as a flange and even then they don't sound good. I've had it for a month and am still trying to see if I can make each effect usable. About half of the effects I cannot get to sound even close to usable. Perhaps the manual could recommend default settings for each effect as in this way it is not intuitive. But it does give you a lot of options for a good price. Build quality is excellent and solid. The lit knobs are great. I have tried the Moorer multi pedal and it is much more intuitive but it does not have a mix knob. I like this pedal on paper, but my ears have a hard time finding useful effects. Even the tremolos are not good. Perhaps a new iteration would address these issues but the pedal I got, I cannot recommend. And I really wanted to like this pedal.

The Sonicake Cry Bot Auto Wah was not the easiest envelope filter to dial in the vintage analog sounds I’ve grown to think of (having used and heard the original pedals all my life), but maybe that’s partly because it’s been designed to cover both bass and guitar ranges. I only have tried it with guitar so far – both with fingers and with a pick. Once I had time to fool with it, I was able to get just the right effects – from light funky rhythm styles to quacky, punchy accents on single note lines. It’s quite sensitive and takes very little adjustment of the three tiny, led-lit controls: Frequency, Decay & Presence to achieve very different sounds. The main Sensitivity knob is equally wide-ranging. I really like the feel of the pedal after just using it for a week. It’s heavy, metal, lightly textured for a firm feel in the hand and all controls, jacks and the footswitch all seem very solid. My only issues with it are cosmetic – the control labels are tiny, tiny, tiny! And it’s difficult to see where the knobs are set with the led light shining through. Overall, it’s much more pedal than I thought at first and if it holds up as well as it feels, it’s definitely well worth the low cost. Pros: Heavy-duty feel of pedal and all controls True Bypass switching Wide range of sound possibilities Cons: Not easy to get out-of-the-box classic auto-wah sounds Tiny label print – impossible to read from the pedalboard Difficult to see the control settings on the led knobs

This is for the 5th Dimension pedal. It's really a piece of junk. Most of the effects are _way_ too pronounced, especially the flangers (can't one of them be more subtle?), and dialing back the "depth" only makes them softer, not more subtle. The "roto" effect is more like another version of the flanger with more "boing", nothing at all like a rotary / leslie type effect. The harmonic trem is terrible, only the optical trem is OK. The auto wah should have an envelope follower, not automatically modulate using the LFO. and the downsampler just sounds like garbage. Also, once you choose a tap tempo, if you change effects it resets to the knob, there should be a way to preserve the tempo. Oh, and also the "mix" knob doesn't mix in dry signal at ALL, it's just an output level for the FX. And, there is no coordination between the "depth" knob in one effect and the next one, so in one case a setting that is relatively weak is super strong on the next effect, and vice versa - so switching effects absolutely requires you to fiddle with the knobs on the fly. They obviously never consulted with any actual guitar players when designing this, I would give this 0 stars if I could - it's not even "entry level", a novice using this will likely feel bad about her playing and may not get how bad the pedal is.