New Boss Pedals. Poly Shifter.

[Saul Goodman]

I may be interested in this.

 

[Disturber]

Ugh, it reminds me of the first pedal I ever bought. A Boss Octave OC-2. Everything that came out of it sounded like a turd farting. I hated it then. I hate it now. 

[Gabe]

Unfortunately I missed out on buying the Fart Pedal 2 a while ago.

 

Gabe 😀

Edited September 25, 2025 by Gabe

[bry4321]

All I want to know is, can you play the start of Kickstart My Heart on it! 

[velorush]

3 hours ago, Disturber said:

...sounded like a turd farting. 

This concept wreaks (no pun intended, but certainly accepted) of a quantum thought experiment. 

"A positively-charged turd is emitted while farting and then that turd emits a fart...

I can know either its position or its spin, but not both..." 🧐 

Edited September 25, 2025 by velorush

[Saul Goodman]

1 hour ago, velorush said:

This concept wreaks (no pun intended, but certainly accepted) of a quantum thought experiment. 

"A positively-charged turd is emitted while farting and then that turd emits a fart...

I can know either its position or its spin, but not both..." 🧐 

Armageddon!!  Or Pineapple!! What ever our safe word is. 

[kizanski]

5 hours ago, Disturber said:

...it sounded like a turd farting. 

I'm going to steal that one.  

I have a similar expression for wretched smells: "It smells like my foot took a shit!"

[Travis]

19 hours ago, Saul Goodman said:

I may be interested in this.

 

Saw that and it looked intriguing. Not sure it’s my thing, but interesting. 

Where you been, btw?  Seemed like a bit of a mini draught of people posting old ass videos like they were brand new. 😂😜

[Saul Goodman]

2 hours ago, Travis said:

Saw that and it looked intriguing. Not sure it’s my thing, but interesting. 

Where you been, btw?  Seemed like a bit of a mini draught of people posting old ass videos like they were brand new. 😂😜

Oh man, Heck of a week. I ended up in the hospital on the 17th. Thanks for asking, Travis. I'm back in the saddle though. I watched lots of "new" videos yesterday while sipping milk shakes and marked some to post here for you wonderful people. I'm glad I have a support group.

[Steve Haynie]

Will someone adapt their playing to find a use for that pedal, or will that pedal help someone get a sound they hear in their head?  Someone out there is going to make that Poly Shifter sound good.  

[Saul Goodman]

18 minutes ago, Steve Haynie said:

Will someone adapt their playing to find a use for that pedal, or will that pedal help someone get a sound they hear in their head?  Someone out there is going to make that Poly Shifter sound good.  

When they were going through the specs of the XS-100, about 15 minutes in, they talked about it having a port for another expression pedal. Lee pointed out that someone somewhere is going to up-one on Tom Morello and figure out their own sound. He went on to say that the XS-100 is the future. So we can sit back, wait and see. 

[velorush]

40 minutes ago, Saul Goodman said:

He went on to say that the XS-100 is the future.

Growing up a die hard "The Jetsons" fan, I had really hoped for more. 

[geoff_hartwell]

4 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

Will someone adapt their playing to find a use for that pedal, or will that pedal help someone get a sound they hear in their head?  Someone out there is going to make that Poly Shifter sound good.  

Warren Haynes’ work on the first Govt Mule record featured the OC-2 and sounds amazing. Very important to set it so that it’s not crazy drastic (turd farting lol).

But some great examples of him using the octave as a thickener for solos. It’s like Insta-balls in a power trio setting.

If the new-fangled one has a vintage oc-2 setting that’s what I’d shoot for.

 

And the best version of the whammy pedal was the WH-2, bc you could toggle between two settings; I used the One-octave up whammy setting (for synthy sounding leads), and toggled to the harmony octave down (like the Warren Haynes octave thickener setting).

Used that for two records with a Synth-Funk band called “The Fuzzy Flow” led by saxophonist Shane Kirsch (ex P-Funk).

Edited September 26, 2025 by geoff_hartwell

[mudshark]

That one wouldn't work for me, but I do love Boss pedals.

 

[geoff_hartwell]

This is a pretty amazing song from the first Govt Mule album. The Leslie sound is actually a Korg G-4 pedal which sounds amazing. The solo at 3:30 is the OC-2 setting I was talking about: 

 

 

This is the other type of solo I was referring to, using the Whammy; Shane Kirsch is a really interesting dude, I think, as a horn player and a composer, and when I played with him it definitely forced me to approach things differently. Solo after 3:30 uses a WH-2 into an 99 Fulltone Fulldrive2 and a Verbzilla set to the Octave setting (like “shimmer”; delayed sound pitched up an octave to make the ambience sound big). Hope you dig!

Edited September 30, 2025 by geoff_hartwell

[DaveH]

On 9/25/2025 at 2:45 PM, Disturber said:

Ugh, it reminds me of the first pedal I ever bought. A Boss Octave OC-2. Everything that came out of it sounded like a turd farting. I hated it then. I hate it now. 

Ah yes, the 'brown' pedal... 😂

I bought one too, played with it for a bit, and put it up. I did find one cool thing it could do, however, which was a fairly convincing tone for 'Space Truckin'.