tc electronic Sub'N'Up Octaver 5-stars Reviews

Brilliant Tracking - Very Cool pedal

This has been my favourite Octave, I have tried several including EBS, BOSS, and MXR. It tracks really well, much better than most analogue pedals on bass. I most use the non poly mode. Using the poly mode I have got a kinds cool pearl jam Jeremy sound, also handy for the bruno mars type sound, when you use an envelope filter.

Like all TC pedal with the toneprint thing you can have huge flexibility if you want. In short it is really good value.

best octaver with old school and modern posibillities

Great octaver with vintage and moderen posibilitie settings and ofcourse the "toneprint" option to load up with your phone a setting from great pre programmed settings. Tracking is exceptional good and fast! After that you can change and colour your personal flavour also. solid build and great quality buidling.

this is my third TC pedal!!

One of the best octavers in the market

I was in the market to find the perfect octaver - having tested all of the possibilities - all EHX Pogs, Moer, Boss, I found this to suit my needs the best.

The tracking is superb and the octaves generated sound very natural.

My only complain is that there is Dry (or FX) out, which would let me separate the signals (for example guitar going to one preamp and octave lower going to bass preamp) and that there are no presets. However, for the price you get plenty, anyway.

Highly recommended!

Amagawd

I have now seen the light....this is just fantastic! The way it handles chords is off this world!

PA destroyer

I use this pedal with bass. I have a classic octave effect in my Digitech Bass Synth Wah and I'm totally satisfied with it but I needed something that can put more layers in my tone, especially that octave up effect and you know what? I totally scored with this pedal, it is great just because it is nothing like stuff we know (oc-2, pog...), it is a story for itself. SUB2 option is pretty useless on a bass, but man, with SUB and UP knobs and a poly/classic switch you can get whatever your heart wants. SUB is great and I think every sound guy will hate you the moment you crank it all the way. As this is my TC pedal I must say I am pretty amazed with their TonePrint options the give us for free! Some instant sound from famous guys and a great editor for making your own craziness. Built quality is top notch. Totally recommend!

powerhouse of an octaver

Using it with a bass, I mainly had it for three different sounds: the good ole monophonic one octave below, as a normal bass octaver, the polyphonic mode in different settings, for emulating the electric guitar's sound (mostly with using other distortion pedals) and the toneprint function to give some unusal and surprising moments to jam sessions and the like. For these, the pedal is absolutely ingenious, covers all the areas an octaver should and then some. I'm sure it can be used for a tons of other purposes, given that I didn't even tried other toneprints or the software tweaking. All in all, a fantastic equipment, usable at concerts as much as in the studio.

The best octaver pedal ever

This pedal allows you to use 3 octaves at the same time + your origin sound. You can blend this sounds as you wish with the knobs.

Octaver has 3 modes: polyphonic, classic and toneprint. Build quality is very good.

The sound of this pedal is real magic! I think this is the most accurate and fastest octave pedal I ever used. And looks cool in my pedalboard. Go for it with no doubt and you will never regret, I promise. =)

Great Multi-Bells & Whistles Device

Originally I got this pedal just to use it as a substitute for a bass in solo-looping situations. Even though the tracking is great, doesn't really sound like a bass, however with some levels adjustment I can use it for the purpose I wanted. It has high, sub and 2-octave sub down, also you can get a good 12 string emulator. Which is my extra benefit. I wasn't aware of that at the moment of my purchase.

And of course you have the toneprint feature, that I don't use a lot but hey....

The list on the toneprint catalog is long and it also simulates "organ like" sounds, I used to be a keyboard player so I now want to focus on more guitar and bass stuff...but to have a few different sounds, this thing makes the job pretty cool.

for a moment I thought I should have gotten just a simpler octaver pedal for less money, but now I'm pretty happy with all what this thing packs in. Also just to add, mine came with a cut in the circuitry, - I think that's the problem - because it sucks batteries everytime. I mean, it consumes the charge of the battery in maybe two short sessions. I would have loved to return it, but the process for that, from Kazakhstan where I'm based now, is too complicated. Pity because sometimes it comes very handy to use it with batteries. I will have to keep it powered by the cable.

Get one and have fun mates!

Best value octaver out there!

This pedal is so good! It's amazingly versatile and will be on my board for a long time! I love how you can connect it to the computer to further dig deeper into its functionality! The pedal knocks the competition out of the park!

makes other band members smile every time

Not very using it much but it could bring some interesting moments to the song

tc electronic Sub'n'Up Octaver

this is a phenomenal pedal. many compare these to EHX micro POG. since I have owned both I can say they certainly aren't the same.

while micro POG is a beast of its own and a wonderful octave generator, to my ears it has slower tracking specially on lower tones. on high notes it produces the classic glitching tone which makes it suitable for dirty sounds and that's where it shines best.

on the other hand since I use this pedal in a very unconventional manner, I needed a very natural sounding octaver with less to no glitches and the Sub'n'Up Octaver exactly does that.

also instead of having both high and low signals in one pedal, I decided to separate them by using Sub'n'Up Octaver particularly for low octaves (sub1 and sub2) and for high octave I use Digitech Mosaic which is a specialized high octave generator.

now I have far more natural sounding octaves with complete control over the high and low tone and can switch from sub octave to octave above without bending or taking my hand off the fretboard :-)

luxury

Tc deliver again

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Great pedal. Compact and durable as expected from TC Electronic.

Stereo outputs would work great to split between a bass and guitar amp. For clarity I mean that using another pedal with stereo output for splitting the signal (i.e. Tuner/Looper or delay) its kind of a hack but was recommended to me by Tore from TC!

Pedal tracks well even with chords in poly mode

Tone prints are great if you don't know what they are you should check out the TC site or TonePrint app.

They can allow complete novices to get sounds that the pros use by beaming presets as if by magic (sounding like a dial up modem) through your guitar pickup

Pros

Build quality

Looks

Tracking of notes

TonePrint feature

Cons

None

I've seen some comparisons of this pedal with the EHX POG ou the Pitchfork, but this is a different thing. Sub ?n? Up is mostly about the sub octaves, and the upper octave is more of an extra feature. You can have only the oactave up, by rolling off the subs, but in my opinion the subs is where you can get the best sounds. And the the Toneprint feature takes this pedal apart from every octave pedal out there.

Positive: It's small enough and true bypass. Simple controls (dry, octave up, octave down, two octaves down). The option between polyphonic or classic adds a lot to the possibilities. The greatest feature is the Toneprint, wich allows you to customize the sound in tottaly new ways: sound like a synth, flanger, phaser, chorus, or everything in between.

Negative: I have this pedal for about a year now, and so far I have not encontered anything negative to account for.

Little sound of subsonic and hypersonic wall

Hell is this a nice pedal. I was looking for a nice octaver and I tried looking for a cheaper one, but if you go cheaper only thing what you will find is a decent monophonic octaver, and with a price increase of couple tens of euros you get a kickass monophonic and polyphonic with a toneprint switch for your fiddly diddling ( I got the default option and it plays like a an organ).

With the sub 1, sub 2, and up2, you cannot ask for more in a an octaver pedal.

Use with bass

I use it on my bass and it does a good job. This has an octave up as well which is the reason I bought it. I recommend it to bass players.

Great Octaver

Compact and robust pedal with tons of different sound modifying options.

Great one

Tc electronics sub'n'up octaver is a great unit which provides all the neccessary sounds.

I have had a EHX POG before this, but being a fan of TC products i decided to try this unit. Straight out of the box it feels great, and quality is top notch as always with tc pedals.

A great feature is the possibility to connect this pedal to a pc and tweak sound by hand, by this the pedal gives you limitless possibilities of octave sounds, and if you don't want to tweak anything, just use the tone print function and experience what tc guys think is a good sound.

There are three modes, poly mode is a mode in which it can track chords, this is a great feature, but the chord tracking is not the best, it tracks, but sometimes lower octaves get messy, POG tracks chords a bit better, although this is a small minus, this is not very noticeable, and doesn't affect play ability.

Second mode being tone print works fine and the pedal is pre-uploaded with an awesome organ sound.

Third mode is classic which can take only single notes, i would rather use polyphonic, although this mode has a bit more beefy octave sound.

Conclusion, a good octave pedal with lot of possibilities, recommended.

Great pedal, great price

The pedal has a lot of useful sounds, and is easy to use.

The 3 modes have distinct sounds. Poly is great for playing multiple strings at once and making interesting soundscapes. Classic is great for lead single note playing.

And the tone print mode give the option of scuplting your own sound by adding more effects like chorus.

All in all great pedal, built well and priced right.

Yet another great pedal from TC Electronic

After playing around with the Toneprints on my TC Electronic amp, I found that the octaver effects were awesome so decided to invest in this pedal to explore more possibilities and so glad I did. Not only can you layer the 2 sub-octaves and the higher octave but you can also add in further toneprints just to make the effects totally unique.

For a geek.. a stunning piece of kit - toneprints can be added via your pc or Mac, or via your mobile through the pickups.

if you do not want to dish out for electro harmonix...

This pedal is just awesome, probably even better than the micropog at half the pog's price, and with a little messing around on the dials you can achieve godly tones from a nice guitar..

Sure, the POG naturally has an unprecedented holy tone, but this sub'n'up octaver can take you places as well through trying different settings. And, it is a high quality pedal, without any twitches, and with maximum tracking, meaning right on the beat response, and truly "TRUE BYPASS"!

Plus with tweaking possibilities on a USB connection, or touch connection with a smartphone, through TONEPRINT app, with additional modulation effects possibilities, which cannot hurt, especially those who like tweaking things?

Who knows what one can do with this in connection with other pedals, sky is the limit!