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akukulich

akukulich

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I thought I gave this pedal away decades ago. It’s an MIJ version from 1988. It works perfectly. It was in a long-unopened box of miscellaneous parts. I’ve got a first generation EBS Octabass on my pedalboard now, but it’ll be fun to give the Boss another go after many years.

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akukulich said:
I thought I gave this pedal away decades ago. It’s an MIJ version from 1988. It works perfectly. It was in a long-unopened box of miscellaneous parts. I’ve got a first generation EBS Octabass on my pedalboard now, but it’ll be fun to give the Boss another go after many years.

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Nice find! I keep all of my spare pedals in a single large box in my garage. In the box are large zip lock bags with all my patch cables, PSU's, cable management etc. I'm slowly migrating all the cardboard boxes over to clear plastic ones so I can see inside from my garage racking. A few hours of organisation and few shekels later...it's amazing how much order one can make.
The Boss OC-2 is an odd pedal for me. I've bought and sold it about 5 times over the last 20 years. For me the lack of unity gain with the pure wet signal, the lack of a quick dial in for that sound...the -2 oct that I never use on bass, the lack of a true bypass all add to the frustration that the OC-2 brings. It's another pedal that doesn't like hot active pickups either. However...it still holds the gold standard octave sound on bass. Others come close but the Boss OC-2 still rules tone wise.
 
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phangtonpower said:
Might be a Taiwan made one. The Japanese ones say Octaver on it? I might be wrong though. Nice find anyway. I love my Taiwan made one. I did upgrade to a 3 leaf only because it has more gain.
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I'm no expert, but the label on the bottom of the pedal says "Made in Japan" and the serial number dates it to 1988. From what I've seen production moved to Taiwan in '89. That's what I've learned from 10 minutes of internet research, so it could be total nonsense.
 
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phangtonpower said:
Might be a Taiwan made one. The Japanese ones say Octaver on it? I might be wrong though. Nice find anyway. I love my Taiwan made one. I did upgrade to a 3 leaf only because it has more gain.
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I think that early MIJ ones say Octaver, and later ones do not.

Great find! I have one on my PB, for *that sound* but find that audiences like a more square/saw synthy sound than that deep warm dubby sound when it's time to bust out some creative weirdness. Generally the jam band vibes are musically very busy and the deep octave can get lost. My BOD often gets the call, with or without the Env Filter
 
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For me the sweet spot of that Octaver is on a guitars high meedly meedly strings, at least that’s one reason I won’t be selling mine, but it does have a certain sound on Bass as well.

Some of the MIJ Boss pedals sound a bit different, like the DS-1, but IMO the japan vs Taiwan doesn’t seem to really matter for these pedals.
 
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[QUOTE="Rabidhamster, post: 24820845, member: 256468"

Some of the MIJ Boss pedals sound a bit different, like the DS-1, but IMO the japan vs Taiwan doesn’t seem to really matter for these pedals.[/QUOTE]

I did some looking into this a few years back- the circuit in the oc2 has always been the same, unlike some others which may have been ‘revised’ or ‘updated’
So fundamentally there is no difference between mij and mit except for the cachet that people must only have mij boss pedals.
 
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