As the late Jerry Pournelle would have written: Donny, the Donner octave pedal that I ordered via Amazon, arrived at Chaos Manor yesterday. The delivery was relatively quick and hassle-free - it's a shame that more deliveries aren't like this. On the other hand (sorry: as Pournelle would write, on the gripping hand), I did pay $15 for delivery ... or did I? The invoice included in the package states that there was use of a promotional certificate for $15, so the delivery was actually free. But first a report about the multi-effect pedal being used at band rehearsal.
During the exchange of messages enquiring as to whether we could have a session on Saturday night (at the moment we're playing once every two weeks and last Saturday was supposed to have been an 'off' night), I mentioned that I had a new toy to display. So everyone asked about the little pedal and were either impressed or amused by all the lights on it. Most of the time I was using one of the presets with chorus, although for a short solo I used another preset with a great deal of echo. This was fairly successful although sometimes I managed to get the pedal out of preset mode, so I had to turn it off and on again. The chorus sound is very trebly (as usual) so I turned down the tone knob on the guitar. I shall try to do more with the tone settings on the pedal and the amp.
- Setting the wet and dry to 50%, the switch at the top to 'sharp' and the interval to one octave basically makes the guitar sound like a 12-string guitar, where every note played on the guitar is doubled an octave higher.
- As above, but setting the interval to 7 semitones (a perfect fith) is supposed to cause an E note to be doubled as a B. If I play an E chord, then the pedal will 'play' a B chord; the result should be an E Major 9th chord, namely E G# B D# F#.
- Moving the switch at the top to its middle setting, detune, creates a chorus effect whose depth is dependent of the setting of the big knob.
- Setting the wet knob to 100% and the dry knob to 0% causes the pedal to act as a capo: if I move the middle knob to the '3 semitones' position, the top switch to sharp and play shapes in Am, it's as if I'm playing in Cm (this will be useful at Passover). Similarly, after moving the top switch to flat and the middle knob to '2 semitones', playing shapes in G will sound as if I am playing in F.
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