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Re: Boss OC-5 Octave *NEW BOSS PEDAL*
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:48 pm
by BearBoy
The_Doc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:51 pm
Thanks for the heads up Pepe on the OC-5. I intend to use it with a drive pedal and I’m wondering whether that will improve things.
I think it sounds pretty good in Rabea Massaad's demo (he uses a lot of dirt):
Re: Boss OC-5 Octave *NEW BOSS PEDAL*
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 2:27 pm
by The_Doc
Finally - it’s arrived !
Let’s see what it’s like.
Re: Boss OC-5 Octave *NEW BOSS PEDAL*
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 4:43 pm
by Pepe
Don't expect wonders from the octave up mode.
Re: Boss OC-5 Octave *NEW BOSS PEDAL*
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:48 pm
by The_Doc
Had some time with the OC-5 now. As I mentioned before I used it with a drive pedal and thoroughly enjoyed myself ! It sounded a bit toppy but then I was playing it through a Sansamp into a JC-40. I couldn’t crank one of the tube amps but I’m sure it’s going to be good with the Marshall JVM set to stun
The Poly mode is really interesting and, as Rabea Massaad's points out, the Range control is a great feature. With it you can balance the effect across different registers. Very useful and a lot of fun.
I did find the octave up mode rather thin and there more as an afterthought than a key part of the effect. It’s ok for adding a something a bit different in combination with the lower octaves but I certainly couldn’t see me using it on it’s own.
It won’t be going back because I’m a dedicated collector (
), but, I think I would have kept it anyway.
Re: Boss OC-5 Octave *NEW BOSS PEDAL*
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2022 3:29 pm
by jrh60
> Sad thing that they ditched the dirt mode. That's one of the coolest functions of the OC-3.
Agreed - I use my OC3 to cover both my octave and fuzz needs for the cost of one pedal's amount of pedal board real estate