🎶 Elevate Your Sound Game with the SUB 'N' UP!
The TC Electronic SUB 'N' UP OCTAVER Pedal is a cutting-edge device that combines classic monophonic octaver tones with a next-generation octave engine, offering flawless polyphonic tracking. With its TonePrint editor, musicians can create and beam custom tones, ensuring a unique sound experience. Plus, the true bypass feature guarantees that your original tone remains intact.
F**Y
TC Electronic, customizable to a insane level.
So I just play at home these days, but am always looking for something to helps me with my looping and recording, all just for creative outlet. So this makes a decent fake twelve string sound, and a bass to sound like an organ...I couldn't help but start playing "Take Me Out To the Ballgame" immediately. The real selling point though is the tone print feature, so download the application on your phone or computer and you can download many different presets (only on on the pedal at a time). On the computer application the amount of customization is almost ridiculous. I will never get that much into it, but I know folks who might never get around to playing as they would have to tweak everything over and over.The sound, this is a pedal that used right sounds nice, go easy, no really, many smaller amps won't appreciate the sub 2, especially on a bass with a low b, really not much use at that point.Battery. Ok folks, back in the day of simple 1970's pedals, and some of the simpler pedals, a 9v is fine, with the feature loaded TC pedals, just stick with an ac adapter. I use the cheap SPOT, and have had fine success, using it with an a/b switch, four TC pedals, and a looper. No Buzz. Would I say that this is THE pedal to get, nope, I would use it as a nice little tool, I like it fine, I have zero complaints, but those listening might if you use this thing on every song. I currently have it after a Mojo pedal, before the Helix and HOF2.Oh, and it is really amusing with a microphone! (like that is uber creepy man!)
M**E
A Great Choice for an Octave Pedal
We added a song that required an octave effect and I thought I would give this a try since I have had such great results with all of the TC electronic purchases I have made so far. Right off the bat, I was really impressed with the tone and options of this pedal. I was able to dial in a very usable and cool sound instantly. The tone is far superior to the MXR slash octave pedal that I had also tried, which I did not like at all. The toneprint option is very cool, you can really dial in the specifics for your particular rig and save it as a tone print, or try the many available tone prints from other artists and/or players that are available. Great Tone and outstanding flexibility make this an awesome choice for any guitarist looking for a quality octave pedal.FYI. I placed this as part of the input signal going into my Marshall head. It reacts great with a tube head in a high gain or clean situation.
C**R
Great pedal, EATS batteries
I bought this pedal after discovering the Tone Print options available. It sounds great and is easy to dial in nice tones. BUT, it EATS batteries, I've use it on a pedal board for over a year with an AC power supply and had no issues. I took it off the board to use it as a stand alone and with a brand new battery installed, it did not last two sets. I'll never trust it with a battery again.
S**Y
Good tracking, but poor sound quality.
I returned mine as I didn't like the sound. I tried it out with 3 guitars (sg, telecaster, and an electric acoustic). I also tried it out in a variety of places in my signal chain. For me, the octave up is too thin and synth sounding, and when paired with a fuzz, doesn't really give you that classic octave fuzz sound at all. The sub one again was a bit thin, and didn't sound like a bass IMO. Sub 2 is so low you just get nothing of useful sonic value unless you are playing very high up on the neck. In poly mode it tracks pretty well, so the lag is minimal and you can play chords etc. but the sounds you get are just not that pleasant so the tracking ability is kind of irrelevant. You can get some interesting tone print sounds, but most of pretty unusable unless you need very warbly or organ tones, which can be gotten better through other pedals. Seems like one of those pedals you won't actually use, and will live in storage somewhere.
R**S
Awesome pedal with some great hidden features
I was going to buy the EH micro POG when a friend recommended this one. The pedal is very versatile and even has some additional, non POG features that can be programmed in through their TonePrint technology that allows the user to tweak internal settings via USB or even whackier, by holding your phone next to your guitar and sending a patch update through audio kind of like the old acoustic modems.
M**.
The end result should sound like a guitar and bass playing in unison The result ...
First off, I bought this effect to use with two amps (a guitar amp, and a bass amp). I split the signal, one goes into the octave pedal, set to only output an octave up signal (no dry, no sub) which is sent to my distortion pedals, and guitar amp, and the other signal is clean to my bass amp. This is to get the sound of the band "Royal Blood". The end result should sound like a guitar and bass playing in unisonThe result was not as expected...I was disappointed with this effect. While the low octave, and sub octave sounded OK with my electric bass (or guitar), the "up" octave was a delayed, digital sounding, metallic sounding mess. This was while the unit was in poly mode, when in "classic" mode, the delay was gone and some of the metallic sound, the overall sound was filtered (like a wah) making it unusable. I spent a couple days with the "toneprint" editor to try and get a better sound, but results were no better.I returned this and got a EHX Micro POG. Which had much less delay, no metallic sound, and sounded full and rich.
B**L
Great pedal for bass and keyboard.
This is an amazing pedal. I am a bassist and keyboard player and this gives me a TON of sonic footprint to add to my sound. Using Logic it records like a dream. The main issue is one of our guitarists uses it and wont let me use it. I highly recommend this pedal. The toneprint is amazing. I have their Flashback and Hall of Fame and the three together make my pedal board finished for bass and keyboard.
C**.
One of the best pedals I've ever bought!
Makes playing electric ukulele a lot more pleasing to the ear with the added bass tones I wouldn't get otherwise. It allows me and my bassist to switch duties when we wanna seem like a more impressive band.Tone print is absolutely amazing and I'm definitely glad I paid a bit more for this pedal and get tone print and a solid build quality than less and get some cheap piece of crap I'd be much less excited to use.
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