• Acoustic Tones

  
  As reviewed by D-Music on 12/3/2009

  I have tried many octave and phase shifting pedals, but nothing has come close to the clarity and variety of the POG 2. In film score, I like to apply electric effects to acoustic instruments and this pedal doesn't have the digital overtones of other octave pedals. I can get unbelievable swells (Steve Morse, Eric Johnson) and cinematic feedback with an acoustic guitar using the LP Filter and Detune vs. the multiple combinations of the Octave array. It is also very easy to use for the complexities of its sound.

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• This Thing Does Work

  
  As reviewed by Josh on 1/10/2010

  WOW! What a great pedal!! I've tried a few octavers (Polyphonic and monophonic), and lemme say, this thing is AMAZING! It tracks flawlessy. The tones you can get out of this thing are awesome. If you take the time to dial in the organ tone, you can accurately reproduce it. Also, when using the attack slider, you can make your guitar sound like an army of violinists. Well worth the money. Get it.

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• More than meets the eye

  
  As reviewed by Nick on 5/24/2011

  At first, I couldn't figure out why I would ever want one of these considering I can do all my octave/harmony lines on my Whammy, especially with how much the POG2 costs. But then I started looking at ways to turn my guitar into synth pads and I watched a lot of EHX's videos and it turns out there's a lot more you can do with octaves than I thought. The easiest sound to dial in is an organ sound, but if you combine the POG2 with a couple of other pedals and play with your guitar's tone control, you can get some neat synth pads. By itself, I'm not sure I can dial in some of overtones of, say, a vocal pad, but add in a reverb for ambience and maybe a fuzz for a little grit and you can go along way with this pedal. Presets are a little weird--the instructions say that the preset LED will flash when a control is moved from the saved position for that preset, but actually the light flashes when a control is moved from wherever it was when you loaded the preset. Makes it a little more difficult to figure out where the slider should start if you want to tweak a preset just a little bit. Not a huge problem, but it does mean you should write all your settings down in case you want to change them later. The top button ("Dry/FX") doesn't always respond the first time I push it. Not sure what's up with that, but not really a big deal. Takes up a fairly large bit of my board, but at least EHX is actually using all that space. Some of their pedals are big for no apparent reason... It seems to be pretty sturdy and it looks quite nice.

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