MXR Poly Blue Octave - Review & Latency Test
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Check out the Boss OC-5 latency test: • Boss OC-5 Octave Laten...
Do you have a Poly Blue? How do you feel about the latency? Am I too hard on this thing? I'm a bit of an octave snob after owning so many. I just find this level of latency distracting and not great for studio sessions. If you've had luck with this pedal, let me know!
Walrus Audio Luminary V2 latency test: • Walrus Audio Luminary ...
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The test that every pedal should go through.
Yes! This is probably 60% what I care most about on an octave pedal. I’ll keep doing them as I accumulate more (or borrow more).
@@BounceChord it scares me that one could grab a few 'modern DSP' units and suddenly you're 6-8ms out of time. I know we can adjust to an extent but these hidden buffers stack up.
Fantastic video!
@@jesseanatole987 thanks for making it possible, dude!
I bought this and returned it so fast!
yeah, if I had paid for this, I would've been quite bummed.
Hidden slapback feature
@@avividbloom haha! Silver lining.
Lol completely
I think the EHX Pitchfork+ is the best one in this catagory... I'm just surprised that someone found a use for the EHX Platform... Lol... 🙂
@@ShaighJosephson 😂 I’ve literally only used it for this and this one time when I did a Goblin cover and needed my transients shaved off.
I’ve always been curious about the PF+ but I’ve heard mixed reviews on it. It probably does too much for my needs. I owned that Keeley Psi thing for a day but realized I only really need octaves. The harmony stuff is fun but unnecessary for what I do.
I have the platform and like it
@@davidsummerville351 I definitely need to spend more time with it.
This pedal would be SO useful if it just tracked well. The Boss OC5 is worlds better in terms of tracking and sound. Doesn't have the organ thing like 99% of octavers. The poly does a lot of things OK but nothing particularly great.
Spot on. I love the OC5. I actually bought that new Keeley thing thinking it would replace it but the octave sounds aren’t nearly as good.
@BounceChord Yeah, I've also tried a few different octave pedals in the last couple years and none of them sound anywhere near as good as the OC5. The Digitech stuff is pretty close and tracks just as well, but the OC5 sounds much more natural and you also get the bonus of that vintage mode, which is just killer with single note fuzz riffs.
Pretty unacceptable
I’m looking to eventually buy a boss oc-5 because it does poly AND you can dial in when you want the lower octave notes to sound which o can’t find on any other pedal
@@Lomoholga2 that’s a great feature of Boss octave pedals. I think the Super Octave had that too. OC-5 is a great pedal. I tested that one too.
"Thanks buddy, your pedal sucks." lol
Haha!!
I don't disagree with your analysis, but you need to read the manual. It's a Phase 90, it's a Leslie emulator, it's a FZ-1W Fuzz. And then there are the expression pedal possibilities. If you want a single-function polyphonic octave pedal, this isn't the one.
@@HalfHeartedFanatic good to know. This is all based off what I’m hearing in the room however. To my ears, it sounds like a Blue Box and a Script 90. This is also an octave pedal first and foremost so it should do that one thing well. Nobody is buying this for the modulation or fuzz. Those may be selling points for some people but no one who’s in the market for a modulation pedal is gonna be looking at this thing first.
Mono mode is fine. That's all that matters
@@ryanguit yeah mono mode is totally usable aside from sounding a little weird. They shouldn’t have even bothered with the poly setting.
The IDK reference got me
Yes! I was hoping that would land with someone.
Ha! Cable length has no perceptible impact on latency...
It must be said because there’ll be someone in the comments saying the exact opposite if I don’t.