RING MODULATOR- CHICAGO STOMPWORKS Octave Up ...Green Ringer clone

CHICAGO STOMPWORKS

OCTAVE UP´ 

$60.00 USD

The company has been around since Noah got off the Ark. The guy had a
very novel idea. Why not build well built clones made to get abused at your club 

gig that are dirt cheap? He did this when something made in China meant it was probably a bamboo wind chime.

He even has a lifetime warranty. Total abuse does not count, LOL. In short a diode dies a transistor tanks you get a free fix.

If you ever used an Octave fuzz you will identify the sound. The thing is the pedal gives that biting octave squelch even on a clean sound.

Dan Armstrong's Green Ringer from the early 70's was the first such unit.

You literally plugged it into your guitar. Bad idea, lol.

Technically it works by sending two unrelated signals thru a preamp at the same time. During the analog days of phones it was discovered by trying to send two phone calls through a cable at the same time. It did not work but it sounded 

cool to the Bell Labs guys.

The layout is footswitch. The learning curve is bit difficult but worth the effort.😕

CONCLUSION

Yes like all Ring Mods you get some discordant flatted 5th vibe but it does a good job of not letting 

it slide into the Shoegaze and Star Wars domain. It can put a good riff right in your face or 

take a solo to another level. It is priced right for pedal that is meant for some spice but 

not the whole meal. 

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the fine print

Best demo of a pedal I have ever seen &

I have seen a very minimum of

4000 reviews.