Octave Fuzz Pedals Review
I put the Octave Fuzz pedals through my 1978 Marshall 50w JMP 2204 with a Fender Strat. I played through them with various settings and pickup selections to hear the different sounds with each of these pedals.
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The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer.[1] It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz.
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On 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first major American appearance at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. Jimi Hendrix demonstrated his almost supernatural mastery of the electric guitar, punctuating the performance by setting his guitar on fire, swinging it wildly around and smashing it on the stage floor. Hendrix had issued a manifesto in music form, ushering in the modern age of the electric guitarist.
His creative use of the tools at his disposal set a precedent for tone crafting and sonic texturing that countless numbers of players continue to pursue today. Hendrix was able to vary his tones in seemingly endless ways that fail to sound dated decades later. With equal parts sonic braggadocio and understated elegance, Hendrix used his hands, his instrument, his effects, and most importantly his ears to concoct a brilliant synergy of sound and song rarely, if ever, equaled.
OCTAVIO FUZZ
Hendrix used the Octavio® Fuzz for some of his prettiest passages as well as for some of his gnarliest. The song "One Rainy Wish" from Axis: Bold as Love definitely falls into the former category as Hendrix uses the Octavio to add a dreamy otherworldliness that enhances the tune's sweetness.
However, "Who Knows" and "We Gotta Live Together" from Band of Gypsys find Hendrix eliciting barks, belches, and skronks as he unleashes a veritable clinic on using the Octavio Fuzz while playing double-stop 4ths and 5ths-he even throws in some wah wah for good measure. Listen to the end riff of "We Gotta Live Together" for even more stony low note howl.
The most famous Octavio Fuzz track, however, is undoubtedly "Purple Haze." You can hear how Hendrix uses his pickup and volume knob settings as well as his picking attack to vary between different flavors of effect on different parts of the tune.
Jimi Hendrix was a master composer, interplanetary blues man, and sonic visionary. Without his assertive and groundbreaking creativity, the art of playing the electric guitar would look very different than it does.
MXR® OCTAVIO® FUZZ
Explore the furthest reaches of silicon saturation in a trusted vessel with the MXR Octavio Fuzz. Just set the Level and Fuzz controls to your desired volume and intensity, and allow your picking and plucking dynamics to coax out the pedal's legendarily searing, synth-like tones.
WAY HUGE® PURPLE PLATYPUS™ Octidrive MkII
Just like the original, the Dunlop Platypus Octidrive MkII combines the burly, buttery tones and amp-clobbering gain of the Red Llama™ Overdrive with a frequency doubler that creates an octave-up effect.
Unlike most octave-up pedals, though, this amphibious stompbox cleans up nicely-you can take it from eerie ring modulator style effects to downright massive octave fuzz. In addition to the original Volume and Drive controls, the MkII comes with a Hi-Cut control so that you can shape and season the sonic wizardry to your own taste. Want to sound like a sitar? Just switch to your bridge pickup and pluck away at your strings right where they come off your bridge. Dynamic and touch-sensitive, the Purple Platypus Octidriver MkII is packed with symphonic potential.
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