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I played a soft-synth version of this pedal for a while and fell in love. I love tuning my guitar weird and playing harmonics through it for a most evil ring mod.

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:12 pm soft-synth version of this pedal

Details plz!

brownreasontolive wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:16 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:12 pm soft-synth version of this pedal

Details plz!

Sure! It's in the Amplitube 4 Joe Satriani bundle as the "Satch Octave" pedal. All the effects in his bundle are great, he even includes a fantastic Scholz Rockman emulator.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:16 am I know these tend to be really divisive guitars amongst folks

I love 'em! Good score.

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:28 pm Sure! It's in the Amplitube 4 Joe Satriani bundle as the "Satch Octave" pedal. All the effects in his bundle are great, he even includes a fantastic Scholz Rockman emulator.

I totally misunderstood the meaning of soft synth here!
Here I was, somehow imagining a MIDI controlled VST that was voiced after this pedal.

Either way, enjoy the pedal!

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:12 pm I played a soft-synth version of this pedal for a while and fell in love. I love tuning my guitar weird and playing harmonics through it for a most evil ring mod.

For anyone wanting this in a cheap alternative pedal: The Ultimate Octave is a very slightly tweaked Foxx Tone Machine. The creator of Foxx is now the head of Danelectro. The super cheap and totally bad ass Danelectro French Toast is the same circuit as the Tone Machine. That Fulltone one is bulletproof though.

tommy wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:50 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:12 pm I played a soft-synth version of this pedal for a while and fell in love. I love tuning my guitar weird and playing harmonics through it for a most evil ring mod.

For anyone wanting this in a cheap alternative pedal: The Ultimate Octave is a very slightly tweaked Foxx Tone Machine. The creator of Foxx is now the head of Danelectro. The super cheap and totally bad ass Danelectro French Toast is the same circuit as the Tone Machine. That Fulltone one is bulletproof though.

This thing is great. I had one years ago and regret selling it. I was gonna re-buy it for this but I think I'll rely too much on the octave on/off switch. If I end up not using it much, I'll probably just switch back to this little guy! I also found the original Foxx Tone Machine to be a little too harsh and spiky. Something about the Fulltone sounded smoother to my ears.

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:56 pm

tommy wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:50 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:12 pm I played a soft-synth version of this pedal for a while and fell in love. I love tuning my guitar weird and playing harmonics through it for a most evil ring mod.

For anyone wanting this in a cheap alternative pedal: The Ultimate Octave is a very slightly tweaked Foxx Tone Machine. The creator of Foxx is now the head of Danelectro. The super cheap and totally bad ass Danelectro French Toast is the same circuit as the Tone Machine. That Fulltone one is bulletproof though.

This thing is great. I had one years ago and regret selling it. I was gonna re-buy it for this but I think I'll rely too much on the octave on/off switch. If I end up not using it much, I'll probably just switch back to this little guy! I also found the original Foxx Tone Machine to be a little too harsh and spiky. Something about the Fulltone sounded smoother to my ears.

So I have the parts in my stash to build a Tone Machine, but I was wondering how worth while it is to throw in that octave footswitch. Thoughts? Is there a volume drop/bump?

VaticanShotglass wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:09 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:56 pm

tommy wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 3:50 pm

For anyone wanting this in a cheap alternative pedal: The Ultimate Octave is a very slightly tweaked Foxx Tone Machine. The creator of Foxx is now the head of Danelectro. The super cheap and totally bad ass Danelectro French Toast is the same circuit as the Tone Machine. That Fulltone one is bulletproof though.

This thing is great. I had one years ago and regret selling it. I was gonna re-buy it for this but I think I'll rely too much on the octave on/off switch. If I end up not using it much, I'll probably just switch back to this little guy! I also found the original Foxx Tone Machine to be a little too harsh and spiky. Something about the Fulltone sounded smoother to my ears.

So I have the parts in my stash to build a Tone Machine, but I was wondering how worth while it is to throw in that octave footswitch. Thoughts? Is there a volume drop/bump?

No volume drop and I think the octave effect is definitely worth it. The real question might be how worth it is to have it footswitchable...like how many times is one switching between the two sounds. But at the end of the day it doesnt hurt anything to have the footswitch, just takes up a little more real estate to make it ergonomical.

p.s. as an interesting aside...a while ago Foxx was resurrected and sold reissue units of the Tone Machine. That lasted for a bit then they went out of business, but at the end they were selling off their enclosure stock. I got one and this is my personal Tone Machine:

Seems like Dano thought it was worth it...