Foxrox Octron

On the outside you only have a mixer for Direst-Signal, Octave DOWN-Signal and Octave UP-Signal - very simple! The tonecontrols are on the circuit board. You can adjust Octave DOWN tone, Octave UP drive (from clean octave to fuzz), Octave UP tone (high cut) and a switch for two different Octave UP sounds (A is more harsh and B is smoother).

Amazing! I??m a Fuzz- and Octave-Freak and own a lot of those kinds, but the Octron is a class of it??s own. I??ve set it so that the Octave UP is very clean and smooth, so I can combine it with any Fuzz or Overdrive pedal. The Octave DOWM alone sounds a bit too muddy to me, but with a little touch of the Direct-Signal it is very cool. The tracking is perfect and works very well with any Pickup of my Strat.
Try a compressor before the Octron!
To make it short: THIS IS THE RIFF MACHINE!!

Built like a tank! Massive folded Steel enclosure and powder coated like we know it from Fulltone - this will last forever. The PCB is professional and carries only high quality audio parts. Foxrox as we know it.

Dave is a nice guy, but very busy, too. So it takes time to reply to customer questions.

This pedal is a MUST HAVE if you like these kind of Octave-tones. You can combine it with all your drive/fuzz-pedals and you will experience tons of new killer-tones! I love it!

Very easy to use. Up, Down, and Mix.

Excellent octave up / down effect! This pedal flat out rocks. Dead quiet, true bypass. It tracks perfectly. It doesn't sound thin. Very cool...

Built like a tank.

Haven't dealt with them...

Great pedal! Go buy one... NOW!

Simple, three knobs, One for the volume of each control 1. octave up 2. direct ND 3. octave down.

This is the first item I have put in a review for. The sound quality is very organic in my opinion. It is an all analog pedal which I believe is the culprit for its warm sound. To me, it sounds some where between an old hammond organ and an old analog synth when using all three controls together (up-2:00 Down-5:00 Direct-11:00) my standard setting. Running this thing into a NYC Big Muff RI amplified by a fender hot rod 1x12, is something that needs to be expierienced live. I use this trick live and people are amazed that they are watching a two piece and not a band w/ more members.

It seems to me the big competitor would be a micro pog, but they are totaly diffrent sounds. The pog is digital and sounds more sterile to me. The octron is a very musical pedal, not at all random or nasty. The only posible complaint would be that it will not track chords using the octave down effect. Chords work fine w/ the octave up setting for me though.

Can't say i had, or expect to have problem...

Owned for a half a year or so.

Never needed...

Lost or stolen I would get another in a heartbeat. This pedal is at the core of my "sound." It's not an effect that I would use continualy but on a solo or riff, it just sounds awsome. It's an extreme effect and as a general rule of thumb I use extreme effects sparingly and subtle effects liberaly.

This is the easiest octave machine I ever had. Only three knobs but a plentitude of sounds. That's the way to do it!! Other than the Fulltone, that also has three knobs but only one sound. Also the octron has some iteresting dials inside. Eat your hart out.

Use it with Marshall plexi's or ptp Fender Vibrolux. The sounds are gorgeous. TRhe possiblity to mix direct and effected sounds is very welcome. That misses on other octavers, where you have the all or nothing option. With this mixing possiblity you can customise it totally. Don't forget the your sound differs a lot between playing loud live or quitly at home. No problem with this octaver.
It tracks great. The octave down is like playing bass with a very rough edge. My bass player was smiling when I dsemonstrated it. The octave up is better than any octaver I ever used; not too fuzzy and the amount is totally under your control. The combination of up and down brings In a gadda di vida alive! Psychedelic times: here we come. You can also get old (!)MXR Blue box sounds.Very, very loveable piece of equipment. Will sell my Fulltone UO.
Play Jimi and other classic rock songs in asemi-professional classic rock band.

Have it only for a month. Have also a Foxrox silicon fuzz for a year with no problems.

Dave is a great designer and a nice person to deal with.

The best octaver I know. Play for 30 years now and use the best of gear. I'm spoiled. Even more with this Octron. And for the price it is a steal.
Bought it via Analog Man, the nicest guy in the business.

This could not be simpler. One for the octave up, one for te mix between direct and effect sound and one for octave down. Between the octavers that I used (both Fulltone's) this is the simplest.
The manual is good.

I am a spoiled man conserning my gear. Have old Marshalls and Fenders and only "boutique" effects. Play mainly Gibson's and one strat. I love to play classic rock and specially Jimmi H. Love the octave sound.
The octron can do the octave up totally magnificient and what I found on the Octron, and missed with the Fulltone is the possibility to dial in the amount of octave. The Fulltone's are not bad but more a all or nothing thing. The octave down is just a cruel thing. You are a dinosaur with it!

This is my second Foxrox efect and have not encountered any problem. They are extremely well build. But I must admit that I own the Octron just one month.

Have had very good experiences with the man.

The best octaver on the market and the most well thought through. The mixing possibility between direct and effected sound is just so obvious and I don't understand that Dave is the only manifacturer I know of that understands this.

Very easy to use. There are a lot of options with this pedal. Octave up knob, octave down knob, and a direct signal knob. The octave down section really tracks well and sounds big and beefy. The octave up part is fuzzy and sounds like an octavia. There are some internal trimmers that can dial in how much fuzz is on the upper octave, and one for dialing in the sub-octave. With this pedal you can play single notes on the guitar that sound huge! especially when it's run into a decent fuzz/distortion box....

Love the sound of this pedal. It big and warm and just plain sweet. No noise that I have detected. Play it through a fender twin and it can rumble the rafters off the house!

All foxrox pedals are built like tanks - absolutely dependable. I also own the ZIM, another amazing pedal.

Great support - dave is a great guy who takes the time to answer emails and all manner of crazy questions. As busy as he must be, it's nice to have a person behind the gear.

I play surfy-creepy music. I got this pedal instead of buying a baritone guitar for when I want it to sound really dark and heavy. This pedal fits the bill - it plays well with my other pedals, doesn't take up much real estate on my pedal board and feels and looks rock solid. I wish it had a footswitch for each octave part, but that's nitpicking - it's another excellent creation from foxrox!! totally happy with this - oh yah!

Quite frankly, if you can't make the Octron sound good, you're an idiot.

Warmoth Jaguar --> Foxrox Octron --> Subdecay Blackstar --> Visual Sound Jekyll&Hyde --> AnalogMan Clone Chorus --> BOSS Giga Delay --> MuRF --> EQ --> Mesa/Boogie Studio .22 Preamp --> Fender HRD 4x10

Believe the hype. All the seeming hyperbole about singing cello/violin/woodwind type tone with tracking tighter than a busty girl's sweater is, to borrow the industry term, dead-on balls accurate. The tone oozes out of my rig.

Not a hint of noise that I can detect which isn't more the fault of the dirtboxes I run the Octron through. Pair it with a Tubescreamer type overdrive and your low strings will growl, middle strings will sing and high strings will yowl and scream.

I've played a Warmoth Jaguar (EADGBE), a Fender Toronado (standard) and an Ibanez Jet King II (E standard, C standard and open C) into this setup and all sound magnificent with the Octron. Its warm analog beauty goes unmatched by anything I have otherwise tried.

I'll echo the earlier statement that this is not the octave pedal to be doing Rage Against the Machine or CKY riffs with; it's simply much too fluid/liquid a tone, where those bands' sounds demand a splatty sound that the Octron is simply incapable of making. But there's no way in hell I would ever take a Boss pedal over this one. Whole different ballgame.

One notch down from an old telephone with regards to how easy it would be to bash someone's face in with one.

My only gripe is the somewhat unwieldy way in which the plate comes off when unscrewed, but some people might not even bother to mess with the internal trim pots or battery clip anyway.

Individual attention and made in America by someone who clearly knows what he's doing. I got mine through AnalogMan (authorized Foxrox dealer), who also make quality stuff, and have a reputation for some of the best customer service ever. They answer emails sent at 9am WITHIN THE HOUR THEY ARE RECEIVED. Tell me the last time BOSS did that, so I can call you a liar.

Definite thumbs up here.

My style of music is heavy alternative rock. The Receiving End of Sirens, Smashing Pumpkins, My Vitriol, Nirvana, more experimental stuff.

I've been playing 7 years and this is my favorite pedal that I've played in that time. I would buy it again in a heartbeat, and it's sure bet that if production on these ever stops for some reason, you'll see them going for absolutely nutcase ridiculous prices on eBay in the coming years. It is quite simply an inspiring piece of gear.

Very easy to use.

If you use a lot of gain on the amp this pedal will add some noise if you set the upper octave past the 1 o'clock area on the dial. However, the noise is very moderate and easy to deal with in the end. This pedal is so mush organic than other octave pedals. I have tried them all, too.

Like a TANK! I think this pedal will outlive my grandchildren and they have yet to be born.

I have not needed it yet. Although I have heard great things about Dave.

Great sounds. The only that tracks better is the EH/POG and it does not sound as organic and it costs twice as much.

Three dials, easy. Although this thing really does work better with the neck pickup, and it really does work better before dirt. I can only compare this to my Boss OC-3. I found the boss to be a bit more compromising in terms of placement and pickup selection, didn't make it sound any better though --->

Using a les paul shaped thing into a marshall combo. This pedal does sound awesome, but it's not the Octave sound I was expecting (despite hearing a bunch of clips). Again, compared to the OC-3, this pedal has a slightly softer, more synthesised sound to it, and because you can't really run it after dirt, you can't get the full bass response out of it unless you play clean.

It really is a sweet sound though. The upper octave rings out fine like a spiders thread. It's almost like controlled feedback, because it doesn't always come in right away. I don't think this is a pedal for thrashing out RATM or CKY style riffs though. I just don't think it has the balls in that area. But other than that, this pedal is a keeper, and has knocked my OC-3 off the board. Like a lot of boutique gear, this pedal requires that you know how to play with it. I use it for lower octaving my riffs and stuff, but i love using the upper octave for solos. It's a very original sound and people that know nothing about guitars have commented on it.

Oh yeah, tracking, it tracks much better than my OC-3, although you really do need to use the neck pickup and run the pedal before dirt. But it's worth it.

Very solid construction. I worry about doing damage to it more than I worry about it breaking on it's own.

No idea, hopefully I'll never have to find out. But the customer service up until I received it was spot on.

I play in a 1 guitar band so an octave sound really helps to fatten things out. This pedal blew me away, and it works with all my other pedals (slightly annoying I can't really put it after dirt, but no worries). I love putting all the dials up then running into a leslie simulator and doing some finger tapping. Sounds obscure I know but it's a stunning sound, very un-guitar-like.

I'd only recommend this pedal if you're really into your octaving. It's a fair bit of money for something that may not be to everyones tastes/abilities. On the other hand I can imagine anyone spending hours playing with it. It really is a beautiful sound, almost like an extension of the guitar itself, which isn't something you can say about most pedals. Forgive me for not giving perfect tens, but nothing is perfect!

Nobody needs a manual for this thing. It makes good sounding music easy and that's what all great pedals do.

I bought this because my MuTron Octave Divider was stolen. Up until I played this pedal I thought the MuTron was the top of the octave pedal pile but this unit tracks better and has at least as full a sound. I give this a nine only because all octave pedals sound somewhat artificial compared to the original note. Still, this is the best around.

I've had it a few months and in that time it has gone with me on 11 gigs at one of which it had a full beer spilled on it. It works flawlessly.

Up until I dealt with him personally, I had heard that Dave was hard to get along with. I couldn't disagree more. My personal experience is that he bent over backwards to get me a pedal ASAP and did everything in his power to make me happy. I doesn't get better than that.

I've been playing for over 25 years and have been around the block more than once. Like lots of people say, I will only give a pedal a spot on my pedalboard if it is the best of the best. This pedal has a permanent spot. Now if I could only find an OD pedal that was worthy.....

It's exactly what you need in an octave pedal; up octave, down octave and direct all with individual level control. Simple and perfect.

The lower octave sounds so good and tracks so well that you could fill in for the bass player. Upper Octave has fuzz added and is the best sounding octafuzz I've heard. The fact that you can have control over the levels, and internal control of tone and fuzz type, makes the sound palate really huge. This pedal reacts very well in combination with other effects- try the lower octave with direct into a decent auto-filter- awesome!

Only had it a month but no problem so far and I really don't expect any. The look of Foxrox pedals give you a sense of confidence that they will last a long time but you'd expect that from any quality builder. It's heavy for its size- a good thing.

Dave is great! It gives me a warm and squishy feeling knowing that the owner, designer, and builder of these fine pedals, (all the same person), can get back to me within an hour or so with an answer to any question. He even mails the pedals personaly.

I love guitar pedals...nice guitar pedals. I don't over-use them but I certainly have a lot of them and I have to say that the Octron is about the most fun I've had for $200 since.....well we won't get into that but, seriously, great, great pedal. Put it at, or near, the front of your chain and have fun. Dave could charge another hundred dollars for it and it would still be a bargain.

Foxrox Octron Review

The understated exterior of the Octron begs to differ with the sweet layered primal screams lurking below it?s steel shell. This pedal puts the lead instrumental right on top like a blast from a shotgun. Prepare to dance with the devil and fire up the beast..

Ease of Use: 10

Experienced Foxrox customers know the superb level of quality of Dave Fox?s products and the Octron is no different. Simple, eloquently understated appearance and well thought out control placements make this a breeze to use right out of the box. The instant ability to throw down the greatest octave up, octave down, or a literal plethora of sweeping combinations of the two - make the ease of use and quick dynamic results an easy 10 rating.

Sound Quality: 10

The Octron is an instant classic and an absolute desert island pedal. That?s a mouthful from a dedicated gear slut. The tracking on this pedal is hard to describe in words that will give it justice - smooth, well-rounded, deliciously thick, sweetly articulate, the Octron has to be the most musical sounding pedal that was ever created.

The compatibility of Dave Fox?s creations is also known world wide. He allows the user the tools (tweaks) to dial-it-in ?spot on? no matter what amp/guitar setup you are using. I have played thru this pedal solo, with a variety of fuzz and distortion pedals, with phasers and flangers and with a wah - (you can create tonal combinations that are almost endless with very little tweaking at all) - especially given the truckload of tone from this machine, through humbuckers and single coils and a wide variety of tube amps and the Octron widens the complexity of musical voicings that will leave you breathing hard and forgetting your household chores.

Pimp your instrumental brothers - this pedal can liven up the most arcane and overplayed riffs of the planet. The coolest thing about this pedal is that with the proper settings and just a little of your time, you can sound so unique that the mind opens itself to things you don?t normally think of when you?re in the middle of an instrumental. This is creativity 101 in a stomp box format. Pure genius from the man in New Jersey.

The octave down can be set to (my favorite) deep, thick, yet strangely beautifully articulate - molasses rich tasty ?ribcage vibrating? notes of pure rapture. The Boss OC-2 qualifies as nothing more than a paper weight in the shadow of the Octron -there is no comparison. OC-2 = Mud. Octron = Chello on steroids. God I love this pedal.

The Octave up is equally heavenly and is the closest you?ll get to string like synthesization without a GK-2 pickup an accompanying multi-effects processor. One other reviewer stated it becomes almost like a wind instrument at certain settings and I couldn?t agree more.

Breathless is how this pedal will leave the user. With fuzz or distortion you need to tweak a bit to get that bottom end more articulate - but once you do the sheer bark, growl and bite of this lethal combination will indeed take your breath away. Heart-stopping lead riffs to die for. I feel like I could type for another 2 hours and not cover all the ground that this pedal - along with different amp/guitar, and in conjunction with other pedals in the chain -will get to. Truly a masterpiece and a must have for the gigging musician - but equally and extremely usable for the bedroom player. Sound quality and with sooo many sweet spots all over the dials - gets this box a solid 10 (I wish we were using a higher scale to rate this one).

Reliability: 10

Based on years of gigging with Foxrox equipment - never had a problem -would gig without a backup anytime. Dave?s reputation for quality speaks for itself and the rigors of the road will easily speak to the quality of his products. Dave is an actual gigging musician, and his products show this with every note coming out of them.

Customer Support: 10

One of the very best in the business. Sets the standards like a handful of others on these forums. Excellent reputation, excellent feedback, and an openness to actually tweaking and further design modifications to suit his consumers needs. Top Ten easily - and proof once again why he was selected as builder of the year by the River City Rockets & Crew. Road hard.

Overall Rating: 10

Best bang for the buck with all of his products - but especially with this one. He could easily charge twice as much and still I would say it?s worth that and more. For all of you ?it?s all in the fingers? folks out there... you haven?t tried the Octron yet.

Rock on and, as always - thanks for reading!

Rev

Out of the box the Octron exhibits the highest standards of build quality, it's deceptively heavy and smaller than it looks on the Foxrox site. Also, the dedicated enclosure certainly provides that distinctive, individual look that all of Dave's pedals offer. It's one that folks will undoubtedly stoop to investigate when they spot your board at shows.

The layout makes it simple to see exactly what you're going to hear coming from the Octron, things really could not be easier here. Even the trimpots and a/b mode selection inside is simple and intuitive. They offer complete control to shape and define the upper & lower octaves to your personal taste.

How does it sound? Well, I can't draw comparisons with any previous octave pedals, since this is my first, but that does give me the advantage of coming at the Octron with an open mind, free from preconceived notions about how it might be. Armed with my Tele and a (set-for-home-volume) AC30, I began. Since I was most curious about the lower octave, that was where I started. With direct guitar up full and lower octave around 3/4, I played a few Band Of Gypsies riffs around the seventh fret ... only to hear Billy Cox playing with me! The tracking is astonishing, even down around the fifth fret, if you palm mute and play cleanly the lower octave is smooth, precise and much more musical than I ever thought it could be. The tone of the lower octave is wonderful, fat and warm in the factory setting and very convincing as a bass when played clean.

You can use pick up selection, tone control and damping, along with fretting and picking techniques to control how prominent the lower octave sounds, highly rewarding because it genuinely feels like something you're in charge of, not like the pedals doing the work at all. Even the strange ring mod moans that occur when you strike too complex a harmony is damn usable! The lower octave has gone from being an effect I thought I would rarely use, to being something I'll shoehorn in at every opportunity.

Next I blended in some upper octave, to further compliment the Band Of Gypsies thing I already had going. With direct guitar around 3/4 and both upper and lower octaves somewhere similar, the sound takes on a very different dynamic, it's almost like a wind instrument of sorts. The sound is very smooth and airy, but can also be remarkably expressive and is just as responsive to changes in pick ups and playing techniques. Once again it became part of the guitar sound, when bypassed you wonder for a second if you really do play such a naked and weedy sounding instrument!

I also put the Octron through my fuzz factory, set for a fuzz face type sound. The lower octave gets diminished by the distortion created, but again technique and experimentation can overcome this and reward you with sounds that are out of this world. It growls (very much like the engine sounds from the old Atari "Pit-Stop" arcade game) when you play low string riffs. These are seriously impressive sounds that become even more synth-like when you roll in the upper octave. I once had an FM4 that had sounds akin to this (Octosynth model?) except it was often unpredictable, always tracked terribly and frequently came across as harsh and cold in a live context. The Octron could not be further from that, it's warm, smooth grind really follows you just about anywhere on the neck and sounds outstanding through a fuzz. There is a little hiss from the upper octave when fully cranked and of course this is amplified by any dirt boxes that follow, but it's not at all apparent whilst actually playing.

Mine is still only a week or two old, but it easily ranks up there as one of the most solid, sturdy and reliable feeling enclosures I've owned. Absolutely no worries in this department...

Big thanks to Dave for providing a customer service that's every bit as strong as his product, he's a true gentleman to deal with. He sent email to update me about each stage of the ordering process and generally made me feel well catered for. Again, definitely up there with the best.

The Octron is utterly faultless, everything is as you would like it and I'm actually quite shocked they don't cost $100 more than they do! Exploring the internal pots and the a/b mode is the icing on an already deliciously sweet cake, if those options to tailor your sound weren't available, it would still be a pristine sounding, very rewarding effect to play and one that's well worth waiting for, if you are already thinking of adding your name to the Octron list, do it now before it get's any longer!

User friendly format; three knobs: Octave UP, Clean, Octave Down. Internal trimmer to add/cut fuzz. FoxRox one-of-a-kind enclosure we've all come to know and love. Classy silver colored with yellow LED.

My Octron is #7. I have literally spent two or more hours with the Octron only. And THEN I decided to mess with the octave down! The ability to dial in the amount of upper and lower octave ALONG WITH your clean signal is nothing short of brilliant! Wonderful upper octave fuzz appears as early as the seven fret. It has amazingly organic "bloom" and tracks like a homing missle! ALL ANALOG and it sounds like it. I can boost just the clean signal and have a great solo boost as well! Works well with both single coils and humbuckers. Playing single notes with both octaves dialed up is FUN! It can track diad chords as well. I try to keep it at close to my guitar in the signal chain as possible:
Guitar-
Strobostomp-
FoxRox ZIM, CH A
Octron
RMC3LE
Fuzz Drive
Moon Phaser
FoxRox ZIM, CH B
FoxRox TZF
Medusa

Praying for Dave to release a stand alone VIBE unit as well!

Built like a tank. Meticulously wired together. Mr. Fox is a player as well as builder. He knows what gigging musicians want/need, and it shows it the design and build quality.
Owing the ZIM and TZF I'm familiar with FoxRox's build quality. NASA might contract out with the lowest bidders, but not Dave. Top Notch parts all the way through.

Quick email answers. Frequent website updates. Along with his other pedals, he is as busy as a one-legged-man! Sure couldn't tell that from how he handled my order.

I've been playing for over 17 years now. When you find a product that does what its suppose to do, and does it well, you stick with it. The nice "extra" features on the Octron make it a permanent fixture on my board. A simple, yet complex device that will have you grinning the entire time your guitar is plugged into it. THAT is was makes all the difference to me.

Very easy unit to use and to get an awesome sound out of, but I'll give it a "9" here just because of the internal settings that are important as to the tone of the two octave's (the upper octave has internal tone/gain trimmers as well as a switch, while the lower octave has a tone trimmer).

I play a Strat into a 50 watt NMV Marshall/4x12 Greenback cab and combined with this setup the Octron simply smokes! Both the upper and lower octave's track incredibly well. Being able to dial in the exact amount of each of the octave level's wanted and the clean signal was a huge selling point for me. You can tweak the upper octave to scream or be fairly clean sounding with the internal timmers.

The Octron works very well when driven by a fuzz or overdrive/distortion or simply on it's own. I've had a few octave effects in the past and IMHO the Octron is in a class all by itself.

Haven't had it long enough to know for sure, but it's built very well and with "normal" use I can't foresee a problem other than the switch.

Dave answered all my emails prior to the pedal's release and was very helpful and friendly. I'm sure if a problem should arise with the Octron it would be taken care of quickly and professionally.

This octave pedal is everything I was hoping it would be, just incredible. I play mostly classic rock/blues/fusion and have been doing it for roughly thirty years. Octave up, octave down and clean all independantly setable combined with the awesome sound/build quality puts this one at the top of the heep for octave effects in my opinion.