Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz

Not many features needed, but it does take a while to dial in a decent sound.

I use this pedal with Rickenbackers, US made Strat, and an Epiphone Supernova. This rating may seem low because it's not a good all around distortion pedal. It's good for one thing only: to sound freaky. It does not provide a true octave up effect. There is little sustain and you're better off getting a Roger Mayer Octavia if you want to sound like Hendrix. I rarely use this effect by itself.

I give a rating of 9 when I use this pedal with my Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive. Putting the Sparkle Drive before the Octave Fuzz in the signal path. It becomes much more musical with the addition of a good overdrive pedal. Adding a compressor helps with sustain. I use this effect sparingly for over the top solos that need a little spastic energy.

Very reliable. I've owned this for ten years and have had no problems.

Don't know.

I got this pedal for a birthday present ten years ago when I was a fan of Hendrix. I didn't like it and put it away for a few years. Now my musical tastes have changed over the years and I have rediscovered this pedal. I find it's a great pedal for art/noise rock, and yet it has some cold and mechanical overtones good for industrial type of stuff.

HHHHHHMMMMMMMM... two nobs...... one switch....... an LED........gee.
very easy to get a good sound out of.

great sound. I use an epiphone strat nock off with and explorer style neck --> octave fuzz --> Morley Wah --> DOD Ice Box Stereo Chorus --> Fender Frontman reverb and a Yamaha thirty 112. sounds awesome. no noise. great for hard rock, alternative, SOME Metal, and even some blues. Adds an extraedge to my solos. im taking a point off cause it isn't very good for sustain.

it's metal.....very tough metal... i would gig w/o a backup (mainly cuz i can't afford another one right now)

never dealt with 'em

A great pedal. I play Rock (almost any kind of rock, just not that pop SH*T) and blues and it fits in real well. i compared it with the classic fuzz and got this one because it sounded more awesome and it had a TONE nob and the classic fuzz didn't. i only wish it had better sustain...

This box is very small - two knobs (Ton, Drive), one switch, one LED, nothing really to find out about. Got mine with "rubber wheels" around the knobs, so I can tweak em with my feet while playing. This makes it an integral part of my playing, like a Wah or the pedals of an orgen (though I can not play organ :)

This effect might not be what you are looking for! It does actually not really add an octave but there are rather complex waveform shapings going on: Firstly, the box overemphasizes the overtones of your guitar greatly. Therefore it is sensitive to your pickups/guitar (tried it with a Strat and with a PRS) but in a rather unusual manner. It takes the base frequency of the note almost away and adds lots of heights, some of which have already been there as well as some new (like all fuzz boxes). At low Tone settings you hear very ring modulator like sounds (in fact I think that the +octave is generated by an ring modulator) which allows foe some really weird noises (sounds as if your guitar is fully out of tune and the pickup is broken). As you turn the tone knob further clockwise the sound becomes more and more a usual fuzz zone, still with cutting heights but somehow loosing a bit personality and (oops!) the +octave. I find this box especially useful when chained in the following way: OCTAVE_FUZZ -> WAH -> slightly distorted Tube amp. Scaaaaary! By sweeping the wah you fall from one overtone to the next (in octaves and fifths). However, you will miss the low bottom and the deep growl, but this mixes great with a band (you wont conflict with the bass or the keyboard). For a vintage box it is surprisingly quiet (but not really quite :).

works always. Dont forget to change batteries...

Once again: It does not really what it is supposed to do - instead of really adding an octave it rather takes away the base frequency (I checked this through an spektrum analyser - you WILL get an higher octave, but the other effects are much more dramatic). This box is useful whenever I like to achieve cutting solo sounds or mad riffs - even use the ring modulator for some rather soft special FX. I think there is nothing on the market that cpuld replace this item, so I would have to buy it again, if I lost it. It is substancial to my playing.

Very Easy. 2 knobs, volume and tone.

Medium Noisy. Effect is more amplified fuzz than octave tones, at least so far. Seems to boost the levels quite a bit in addition to adding nice fuzz sound.

no experience, hard metal case, good switch and dials, inside says MXR on plate. Std. 9V battery but will take an AC adapter.

no experience, I guess this is a Dunlop product, in the Jimi Hendrix family of stomp boxes.

It doesn't seem to like to play with my Voodoo MicroVibe, but sounds great straight or with an Alesis Microverb. Have so far played it cranked through a '50s tweed deluxe, a '62 brownface deluxe, and an '80s tube champ 12. All sound great.