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Boss launches the OC-5, its latest compact octave pedal
Time for some polyphonic octave action.
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Boss has announced The OC-5, a new octave pedal that puts a modern spin on the OC-2 from 1982.
The pedal uses up-to-date tracking technology to offer speedy octavisation of your tone, with separate controls for blending dry, octave up, octave down and two octaves down.
A mode switch on the face of the pedal allows you to switch to ‘vintage’ mode, a monophonic faithful recreation of the OC-2’s original sound. Flicking it over to Poly mode, and the pedal happily tracks full chords. In this mode, there’s a ‘lowest range’ setting to apply the octave effect only to the lowest note in a chord for a bassline-esque accompaniment.
Take a look at Boss’ official demo below:
Other features include a switch to select guitar or bass operation, and a direct out for wet-dry rigs.
The unit lists for £129. Find out more over at boss.info.
Cillian is Guitar.com's Senior Staff Writer, and has written news, features and reviews for Guitar.com since 2019. When not writing about guitars, Cillian spends their time building and modding pedals, rearranging their pedalboard and extolling the virtues of the ProCo RAT.