Re: [Harp-L] Octavers, signal processors and amplified harmonica players?

["Tim Moyer" <wmharps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have and use a Boss OC-2 octaver that I like a lot.  It isn't 
perfect, but I vastly prefer it to the digital octavers I have 
tried, including the one in my Alesis Midiver IV.  The analog 
octavers produce a very "synthy" sound on output, which I happen to 
like.  Digital units tend to be much more "accurate" in reproducing 
the harmonica sound in the added octaves, but the result is not 
really what I'm looking for.  

In addition to my octaver I use a Digitech Synth Wah envelope filter 
on the primary (envelope filter) setting.  I split the wet and dry 
signals and run them into separate channels on my preamp, running 
the dry signal through the compressed/tube settings and the wet 
signal through clean/solid state settings.  The results are 
recombined through the Alesis for reverb and run to a power 
amplifier.  I adjust the output of the preamp channels to blend the 
amount of affected signal with the more "traditional" distorted 
bluesharp sound.  Putting the OC-2 in front of the Synth Wah gives 
it a more synthetic signal to which to apply the envelope filter.  

I'm still interested to know if the OC-3 fixes any of the response 
problems that seem to be there with the OC-2.

-tim

Tim Moyer
Working Man's Harps
http://www.workingmansharps.com/

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Roger Boyce <wader1@xxxx> 
wrote:
Boss OC-2, Boss OC-3, EBS Octabass, MXR Blue Box, Electro Harmonix 
Octave Multiplexor...........what are Harp L listers' experience 
with 
any or all of these octave pedals. I have read that Richard Hunter 
and 
Lee Oskar both use Boss OC-2's. What do users of octivisers see as 
the 
advantages and draw-backs of these signal processor. If none of them 
are perfect for harmonica what sort of Frankenstein-fantatsy-
octaviser 
would best serve a harmonica player's purposes?
Yours Truly
Wader 
  

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