Boss OC-5 Octave

Super Boss OC-5 Octave pedal,
Boss quality is there!
A nice surprise, as always with Boss pedals,
simple, robust and effective equipment for sound!
Great customer service at Musix too,
THANKS ;-)

I don't have any experience with the new octave pedals on the market. The Electro-Harmonix POG2 looks very impressive, but the reviews indicate that there are some issues with it, and it's huge. I've played on the old analog Octaver (OC-2?) that Boss put out some years ago, and that was great for the times. This one is much better though. As everyone says, the tracking is very quick. I wouldn't call it precise. You can throw it off very easily with dissonant chords, but 90% of the time, it tracks good with chords. And 100% of the time, it tracks precisely for single note runs, even if you're blazing through a lead. There are so many options for detailing the octaves that you want to work with. It's got a built in mixer with the ability to adjust volume of the original signal, the low octave and the high octave. That's pretty cool. There are 2 modes - vintage and polyphonic. I keep it in polyphonic mode because it sounds more modern, and you can dial in the tracking to allow the low octave to only track the lowest note of a chord. That's awesome too. I used to buy the latest boutique pedals until I had enough issues with these pedals, like having to take them back to the manufacturer for adjustments, true bypass modes sucking tone, digital messes. I've been buying Boss pedals since I was in my teens and I have never had one go out. I've bought about 4 Boss pedals recently because I am starting to play venues again and need the reliability and bullet proof, tank like build quality that Boss is known for. And they sound as good as it gets.