Behringer ULTRA OCTAVER UO300 3-Mode Octaver Effects Pedal, Pack of 1

Great octave pedal, perfect for how I use it which is playing bass lines as part of a looper pedal setup.A note about some of the other bad reviews, these people are complaining about bad sound quality and distortion, this is not the pedals fault! This pedal can only handle a single note at a time, if you want to play chords whilst using an octave effect you need a POLYPHONIC octave pedal which are much more expensive and not what this pedal is!

For the money - and to test the effect - this is an decent enough pedal.Pros: Cheap, durable, does the job, 9v battery or power cableCons: Limited functionality, can't handle chordsIt's easy to knock Behringer pedals, but you need to be realistic about what you're paying for. If I'm curious about an effect, I'll usually pay £15-25 for a cheaper pedal to test if it's something worth shelling out for a more professional one. In this case bought the UO300, used for a couple of jams, and upgraded to the Boss OC-3 which is a far superior unit, but around six times the price!!Don't expect a £14 pedal to be all singing and dancing. Notes about the poor quality of Behringer pedals really annoy me. Unless you're jumping up and down on them they're decent pedals. I've got 5 and they all still work perfectly - the oldest one is +13 years old.

Was highly disappointed with this product. Arrived only working with batteries and didn’t work when plugged into a power supply. The effect itself sounded awful with ridiculously high levels of buzz. This was very disappointing as I have heard good things about this brand and the design is very intuitive and really great quality for the price. It’s just such a shame that it doesn’t work properly. I hope this is just a one off so I will order a replacement and update this review applicable.

Noisy.

Robust although in plastic. Works really well and at a fifth of the price of the supposed market leaders.

I've seen other guitarists on Youtube use Octave pedals to simulate a bass guitar, not amazing quality, but would do for a few basslines thrown ontop of a looper dub.As with the Sonic Cake which I aslo tried, when you just have the mix with the lower octave, when you play the lower octave you also get another tone/note. It's almost you can't fully turn of the paired sound, either that or the pedal struggles to deliver. It was almost like having a delay pedal on at the same time set to repeat once or twice.The other thing I noticed is there is a slight out-of-sync feel when you play the note on the guitar to the actualy sound through the amp. I tried it through the FX loop and also removed all my other pedals out of the chain to check.I even considered the Hendrix's Purple Haze solo that used an octave pedal in part, but you can't achieve it with this pedal either - so not sure what the use of it is - funky but pointless.I like some Behringer pedals, great value, but some are just a bit naf.

I've bought a few of these pedals and have been quite pleased with them obviously they won't last long if you want to stomp on them at gigs but they are sturdy enough if you look after them.I've tried this with bass only so far and have got a pretty good sound out of it, i put the octave 2 knob to zero as having it up any amount sounded odd with the octave 1 knob on or on it's own, but i am pretty pleased with it, i did find on bass it doesn't handle anything from open E to about 7th fret on E very well but anything higher is good, i imagine its because it's already a low note on bass so it might struggle to match it at an octave lower. I still give it 5 stars it isn't perfect but the right settings it is quite effective its easy to see if you just put everything up on the controls it does sound bad, just try some tweeking

I wonder if some of the negative reviews are confusion around what this pedal is and what it is and isn't capable of.Nowadays for a bit more than the cost of this pedal, you can get a digital octave pedal or a harmoniser that makes a good copy of your signal at various pitches that is good for doubling or harmonizing what you play.This is archaic technology, an attempt in the second half of the last centuryto create copies of a signal one and two octaves below and it largely fails. high on the neck, tone rolled off, neck pickup you might get cleanish below octave copies of single notes that you are playing but deviate from that and you get glitches from a pedal that gets confused and dumps out random sonic information.Straight out of the box it sounds terrible and if you like high gain but defined distortion this is likely to be too unruly for you.But if you put it through fuzz or high gain overdrive so you lose some of the definition of those glitches and you spend time with what to feed it into, you can create a crazed unpredictable dinosaur.Neil Young uses an analogue octave divider to help him get to that Weld Era monster (along with a lot of abused amplifiers). Is his mutron better than this? Haven't played one but thus gets you in that ballpark. You just need to find the right distortion to make the noise.