Ditch your bassist with OPFXS’s ingenious Dig Deep octave pedal
Convincing sub-harmonic generator only tracks lowest notes of chords
Italian effects firm OPFXS is taking a different approach to the octave pedal with the launch of the Dig Deep, which only tracks your guitar’s lowest notes.
The company is touting its uses as fattening up a solo electric guitar sound or emulating the role of a bassist - watch out, four-stringers…
Two controls handle the action: clean (dry signal) and depth (lower octave), and the pedal promises to track arpeggios and full chords, no matter how complex.
Now, this isn’t the first pedal to take on such a task - Boss’s OC-3 also springs to mind - but we would make a case for the Dig Deep as the most convincing real-time bassist emulator we’ve yet heard, if the above demo is anything to go by.
If your bassist isn’t pulling their weight, the Dig Deep is available now from OPFXS for €150 (approx $170).
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Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism from Cardiff University, and over a decade's experience writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as 20 years of recording and live experience in original and function bands. During his career, he has interviewed the likes of John Frusciante, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Matt Bellamy, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Joe Satriani, Tom DeLonge, Ed O'Brien, Polyphia, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young and many more. In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.
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