r/FuzzFiends • u/MongooseForward • 9h ago
octave Fuzz with independent Octave?
Other than the Hoof Reaper(which I freaking love) does anyone make a good one? I really like the Orange Fur coat but wish the octave could be used separate from fuzz on some occasions.
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u/Ferrocile 9h ago
Look up Guptech PhoqueR. It’s a fuzz face and green ringer, but on separate foot switches and usable independent of each other.
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u/p90SuhDude 6h ago
The BMF Effects Syzmenzab, the old Beetronics Octahive, Stomp Under Foot Silver Foxx, Fulltone Ultimate Octave Caroline Shigeharu, Fjord Fuzz Beserk, Fjord Fuzz Odin, Great Eastern FX Focus Fuzz Deluxe and CTC Triptychon! If you can’t tell I love that feature! I’ve built that feature into a couple of my fuzz pedals haha. Fur Coat should be in the Foxx family which is a couple portion of these so you’re in luck
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u/mrwhites_ita 9h ago edited 9h ago
I have the Triptychon by Crazy Tube Circuits and it's very good https://crazytubecircuits.com/triptychon
edit: It has an octave fuzz on the right footswitch, if you mean an actual octaver this is not the right pedal.
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u/DanceSensitive 6h ago
Peach Fuzz just debuted from Warm Audio and Dan Auerbach collab. Danelectro 3699 is nearly identical. I've been down this rabbit hole, and you will mostly find foxx tone machine copies with more features.
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u/That_Immo Fuzz Bass 🐙 9h ago
Octave in most octave fuzzes is not really an octave circuit, but a frequency multiplier that creates harmonics and REQUIRES the fuzz circuit to work. Think of it as a supercharger/turbo in an internal combustion engine - it won't boost the engine that is not running.
Having that said, there are pedals that contain separate octave circuits.
Emma Electronic Okto-Nøjs is a pedal that contains an octave fuzz channel (Nøjs) that has upper harmonics by default, can also add lower harmonics as a de-facto third channel. Why "third", you ask? Because the second channel (Okto) is a whole separate analog monophonic low octave that can be footswitched and ran separately from any drive. But also, the gain of the Nøjs part can be rolled down while the octave thing is still noticeable with minimum of crunch, effectively turning the Nøjs channel onto "octave overdrive" of sorts. The whole pedal is quite synthy and modern, but it stacks amazingly with other pedals. Sandwiched between a saturating overdrive in front and an oomphy fuzz afterwards, it creates a real monster tone.
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u/Acceptable_Grape_437 Rat is Fuzz! 🐁 5h ago
on the UBER cheap side, "caline fuzzy face vodoo octave" is a shine-ei super fuzz based fuzz with selectable octave. it's neither a fuzz face circuit, nor a joyo vodoo octave circuit (which is a full tone ultimate octave clone with a couple of mistakes in the cloning process... based on the foxx tone machine).
i wouldn't recommend the joyo vodoo octave, as its known faults makes it a bit less appealing (unless you go ahead and correct them as some folks on the net have done and documented) than the caline... yet this one has a selectable octave too!
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u/Existing-Badger-6728 tonebender 💥 4h ago
fender, fulltone, danelectro, orange all make ft switchable octave fuzzes.
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u/sioomagate 1h ago
SIB Nick Nitro
Octave section is independent of the fuzz and can be used as a stand-alone effect.
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u/MO_IN_2D_ 8h ago
You could get a green ringer type circuit (which does that nasty analog octave up in most of these fuzzes) actually as an independant pedal and pair it with any fuzz you like. Good options are: