What’s a good octave pedal that won’t break the bank?

I use a Whammy, but they're not cheap and less-than-perfect tracking is part of the point. There is another, newer Digitech pedal that's a sort of Whammy-lite with no treadle that may have what you need.

I believe Electro Harmonix makes a "mini" version of their POG pedal that may also do you. I think it's literally called the Mini POG.

 

There’s a TC electric which I have. The nether. It works pretty well.

 

Also check out TC Sub ‘n Up, and the new Boss OC-5

 

The Boss Multi-overtone is pretty good. Has a nice rotary aspect, as well

 

I won this in a contest. I don’t know what your budget is but I really like it.


https://tonereport.com/reviews/t-rex-quint-machine

 

I like mine. Does a nice organ effect.

 

This is the OC-3, so not quite as fancy, but still cool.



I like the separate wet/dry outputs and the octave drop only on lower notes.

 

+1 on the TC Sub ‘n Up.

 

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Can you use two pedals to get your simultaneous up/down octaves?

The 60 cycle hum youtube channel 'host' has quite a few demos on cheap to expensive Octaves.
https://www.youtube.com/c/60cyclehumcast/search?query=octave
I like digging around the bargain bins for pedals .. these may have something for you, often in the $20-$30 range suitable for experimenting.

 

Not found a good one in about 5 attempts. Latency is an issue, also inability to read what you are playing at times. The louder the better though.

 

EHX Pitch Fork gets good reviews.

And the TC Sub'n'Up.

 

EH Pitch Fork....outstanding. We all have them in our band and we use them a lot for songs where we would need to tune down a half step, we simply use the pedal, we have them programmed to go down a half step and there are certain songs like old songs by the smithereens that are tuned down a half step and the three of us just step on the pedal, they track very well and they also do the octave thing. They’ll do any interval.

 

I have the tried a Chinese octaver, Boss Octave, TC Sub n' Up searching for the best octave down pedal for my use. I settled for the Digitech Drop. If octave down is what you need, I would recommend this. It can also go down by semitones.

Here's my demo:


Here's my demo using it to drop B from a normal drop D guitar:


And here. I used it with my guitar-bass project as a full octave pedal. It's a guitat that plays bass at the same time: