the humble 505 RE: Boss Octave Pedal

[mungenast@earthlink.net]

Oddly enough, the humble Zoom 505, the gen-1 black one, does a terrific 
job with octave-down when you use the expression pedal. It tracks very, 
very well, even on whole chords, and imparts a great metallic underwater 
kinda timbre that's very Twin Peaks... makes a great "tic-tac" bass sound 
out of my guitar. The interval settings are rich and useful as well. If 
you focus on the 3 or 4 things it excels at and ignore the things it sux 
at, you can have a great little friend for very few bucks. (I got mine 
brand new back in 1996 or '97, one of the first ones made, but I'm sure 
they're going for beer money nowadays ;-)  I sang its praises on Harmony 
Central, but years later I still dig it. (Note: After nearly 10 
trouble-free years, it has begun to hiss intermittently, from absolutely 
dead quiet to "what is that hsssssssss coming from?" ... if any fellow 
505ers know what the deal is, lemme know.) 
Cheerios,
Tim Mungenast
www.cdbaby.com/mungenast
www.mungenast.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <Brian@porterresearch.com>
Sent: Jan 18, 2005 9:13 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: RE: Boss Octave Pedal


"Brian - Did you try a whammy pedal yet?"

I did, but I found a used PS-5 for less than I could get a whammy pedal, 
and from the little experimentation I did, I think I like the PS-5 a 
little better for my purposes.  On top of that, it is hard to beat the 
size of the PS-5, takes up much less floor space (something I seem to be 
running out of).  I have a friend that has a whammy pedal, so I may do 
some further experimentation with it.  Do you know if they have had 
different releases of the whammy?  The one I used seemed to have some 
trouble with some of the "low" notes(when using 100% effect, down 1 
octave).