tc electronic Nether Octaver Reviews

Nice cheap pedal

It's not incredible but it's not bad either! does the job and it's cheap. Keep in mind I have been using it with bass guitar.

A plain octaver, built like a tank

I bought this octaver for home, rehearsal and live situations. I've had it for a bit more than a year now. It is my first octaver and I bought it to explore this type of effect.

This pedal, like the rest of this line, is build like a tank. from the chasis to the knobs, I think it can withstand a direct hit with a cement wall. The controls are for 2 octaves bellow the dry signal and for the dry signal itself. The switch is not hard at all, no click noise or anything. Led light is very useful.

The only thing is the functionality of the octaver. I guess it is based on the plain vintage circuits, which means that only single notes are tracked. If you play two strings or a chord, the sound gets all blurry and muddy as the pedal circuit apparently cannot handle that, unlike the Sub N Up from the same company.

With this in mind, careful how you use it and you will have a sturdy and nice sounding vintage-style octaver. Would buy again if I didn't want to go to something more expensive and with more functionality.

A solid two octave below pitch changer

I have been using it with the honeypot fuzz (great pedal as well) and also on its own to record my tele as a bass guitar. Works really well.

Decent Octaver for the money

I've since upgraded to a Sub n Up mini for the upper octave.

This is a really good octave for the money, can get a bit glitchy (I know some people like that!).

Only good for "fuzzy" baselines

Not a clean pedal by any means, unusable for most rock and blues. If you play stoner metal, go ahead.

very nice octaver

it's fun to play

Great for bass

I use this pedal mainly for bass and it does the job very good. But i found it works well with guitar too.

It behaves like an analog octaver should and i don't have any real problems with tracking.

On the lower bass strings it gets a bit glitchy but thats common with analog octavers, even the much more expensive ones.

I previously owned an EBS octabass which had some added tone-features but just one octave below the dry signal

In comparison (as far as i can remember) the tracking is about similar

Everything looks solid and it's a well built pedal

The footswitch however, doesn't have a 'click' or a lot of resistance while pressing. The specs say it has true bypass so the switch is probably not one of those heavy, sturdy footswitches i/m used to in other pedals. However, it hasn't failed me yet

I like this pedal in combination with an envelope filter (Auto Wah) and a bit of drive for some synthy funky bass vibes

For the price it exceeded my expectations. If you want to explore the use of an octaver or just want a simple octaver in your arsenal, i definitely recommend this guy!

It works

Has to different octave buttons,

works and sounds fine as long as ju pull one note at a time.

Can't use it for chords, it doesn't know what to do with them and makes a rattle or funny noise instead.

...very good ...if you know what you can do with it...hahaha.

Octaver

This is an analog octaver so sometimes it goes a bit funny--which I like. It sounds very well with distortion. I have not a reason to complain. It does what it says in the label and it feels nice to handle.

Great for the money

Great sound and good build quality

An interesting addition to a setup

Use:

I use the pedal in my studio setup

Pros:

Poyphonic sound.

Has 2 octaves

Cons:

The pedal changes the output tone of the guitar - makes the lower octaves a bit too dark for my taste. It might be possible to put an equalizer after (or in front) of it and shape the sound you want.

Good affordable octaver

I use this pedal with electric guitar and bass. I think it would also work great with mono synthesizers. I have years of experience as producer/engineer as well as instrumentalist. Now I work in the MI branch. (No affiliation with this brand)

For me, this octaver is best for bass. Adding a compressor pedal before it boosts its note-tracking performance. It can make synth-like bass with the dry tone set to zero, or set the dry tone to unity gain, then dail in a subtle octave for thundering presence. The stop response time is tight enough to avoid sounding like mud.

How well this pedal works depends on the signal it gets. (True for all octavers like this) With the right kind of guitar/bass, it sounds awesome, for example strat or p-/j-bass. A different type of bass I use which already has a solid, explosive low-end and precise treble doesn't profit much from the sub octave - it doesn't complement the tone. In any case with a compressor before it, you can get better performance by tuning the level characteristics of different instruments so the octaver can work at its sweet spot.

I would improve the design of this pedal with a toggle switch to an alternate sub-tone more suited to some instruments or other sonic textures. How about a clipping waveform? (Less low-end, similar perceived "depth" thanks to low-mid harmonic content)