Fun With Octave Fuzz: If You Like Big, Screeching Guitar Sounds, You Need One

My friend Chris at Dusky electronics just created the fattest, snarliest, most magical-est octave fuzz pedal I've ever heard. duskyamp.com/models/2002A-aug...
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1966 Fender Mustang
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Octave Fuzz www.duskyamp.com
Hiwatt Hi 5 Tube Amp Head
Weber Attenuator www.tedweber.com/minimass
Mojotone 1X12 Cab mojotone.com
Rode NTR active ribbon mic sweetwater.sjv.io/B05Oa1
ART Tube Preamp sweetwater.sjv.io/DKWZbn
Tascam Field Recorder sweetwater.sjv.io/PyzvrY
Valhalla Vintage Verb valhalladsp.com/
Thanks for watching!
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[@chrisrossi7596]

Back in stock as of 12/14!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I pinned this so people can see 👍👍

[@chrisrossi7596]

@@EricHaugenGuitar ♥♥♥

[@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286]

I think it's fair to assume that we all like big screeching guitar sounds.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Indeed!

[@danielsauriol]

When "like" becomes a bit rowards obsessional, fuzz can also lead to dependance bu talso leads to all sorts of psychedalic exploration. Why was LSD banned for again ? That led to some freaging awesome music as well !!!! ;-)

[@jessepoole106]

@Roughman Tend to agree. Maybe if there were supervised psychedelic "sessions" with qualified professionals, but I don't want random people being able to trip whenever and wherever they want, with potentially dangerous amounts of whatever drug.

[@MrBooger92]

I'm pretty sure my wife absolutely hates it...

[@maurawl]

Yep.

[@fotoajojo]

It’s like saying, “Do you like finding day-old fried rice in the fridge at 2 am when you are really stoned?” UH... FN A !!!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

lol totally!

[@michaelturner4755]

Is that Geoff Peterson as your profile pic?

[@fotoajojo]

“In your PANTS !”

[@danielsauriol]

Even if it sat on the counter for day, equally as happy !!! lol!!!

[@MichaelCoffin]

Eric said, "just get it," so I just got it. Thanks!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yes! Every time I switch it on I smile!

[@davidthompson8032]

This might be the most fun I’ve ever seen you have in a video. Loved it. Want some octave fuzz in my life.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! Sometimes it's hard to contain the excitement for a new device!

[@noisesoundtonevibe]

Eric: Mentions Josh Homme. Me: I always knew you were a man of taste.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah he's fascinating! There's gonna be some investigations of his motifs coming up here on my channel in not too long....

[@ThibaultKV]

@@EricHaugenGuitar please do "Gardenia" from Kyuss, insane guitars.

[@scotchrobbins]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Love to see it

[@OttoRascon]

Dang, that fuzz sound is epic. It's awesome seeing you enjoy this pedal!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks! You can see how much fun it is! Truly a little box of inspiration - that's exactly what we hope a pedal can do!

[@joshuaevans1922]

Finally got one of these, thanks for the video! Really like some of the ideas and strengths you've highlighted herein.

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

I received one of these today and it blows me away. Bar far the best sounding effect and pedal I own. Sooo good. My neighbors are going to LOVE this thing.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! So beefy and inspiring!

[@alejandrorios4460]

Super eloquent rundown on how to get slammin' tones with octave fuzz, brother! The observations with 4th's 5th's and 3rd's was wicked useful. Just what I needed. 🤙🏽

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Alejandro! Octave fuzz is so wild - so great for some things, but not everything! Which is the cool part, finding the motifs that pair well with it!

[@marcorighini6201]

maybe you can play 3ds with a fretless neck

[@macsarcule]

Watched this several times and kept coming back to it, on the hunt for a good octave fuzz. Lots of decent ones out there, but most with little control over the tone, some have way more control than I can use, some sound much too ring moddy, like they made a dark fuzz and added ring modulation rather than a straight up octave fuzz (whatever that might be, I’m not even sure anymore). TLDR, I love your channel so much anyway, you have excellent taste in solid, straightforward gear that kind of gets out of the way of your playing, and holy cats, your fuzz examples sound so good through this. It was a big duh for me to just get _this_ octave fuzz your friend makes! Thanks so much for your channel! 🤘😌🎸

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It really is a great pedal - makes me smile everytime I use it!

[@GuitarsAndTea]

You're a great teacher and explainer of guitar, usually I get bored when people explain things, but I find I can watch your videos start to finish with total attention, that's very rare for me!

[@lees7836]

Incredible tones. Thanks for sharing Eric.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

My pleasure Lee!

[@reverb508]

This review: 14 minutes of Eric saying "This won't sound good, though. Oh, wait... that does sound pretty cool". Hahaha

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! Proving myself wrong!

[@chrisr530]

Hey Eric! Hope your doing well and staying safe my friend. Really enjoyed the video, I just recently started messing with Fuzz, it used to be my least favorite effect but lately I’ve started seeing how versatile it can be - thx for sharing!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! Fuzz is weird - you really gotta play to the pedal, see what it does to your sound, and adapt!

[@Cautionary-Tales-Band]

This is amazingly helpful. I have an octave fuzz and have never really understood how to play into it. Until today. Now it's fun.

[@jamesmackay4529]

this is great, I wish all pedal reviews were just a guy playing with the pedal, feels like you're just enjoying it rather than trying to sell it, but im sold!! haha

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I am enjoying it! You can see how much it surprised me with the wild, searing, fattness!

[@cgavin1]

Wow great intro jam dude! Your friend is very lucky to have someone who can really showcase his pedal!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man! That's a redo of a song from my last EP: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent

[@pedroqueridomusic]

@Eric Haugen You're such a great guitar player. Such cool licks and feel! Oh and that Fuzzzzzzzzzz

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh man thanks so much my brother!

[@patrickcolclough2423]

Lord Eric, I keep coming back to this. Your piece just speaks to my soul, that sound! Well it lights my candle anyway. Thank you.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Thanks for the kind words Patrick! I try to be as real on KZbin as I am in real life :-) The glee you see is actual!

[@coastercook]

Thanks, Eric. You got me shopping for octave fuzz pedals. I could have gone with something at Guitar Center, but I wanted to support independent craftsmen and bought from Dusky.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Awesome! Chris is a good guy and you're directly helping him and his family! win - win!

[@fredhystair5789]

I love that video. The intro solo is just FANTASTIC !

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Fred! That's from a fuzz-rock EP I put out in 2019: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent

[@fredhystair5789]

@@EricHaugenGuitar cool, i'll check it out.

[@fredhystair5789]

Wow great track. Your sound on that solo is ace. So filthy it cracked the paint on my walls.

[@kyyowa129]

octave fuzz is magical, i simply love how it can be creamy yet not muddy yet biting yet not harsh

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! I love a good germanium fuzz face too, but the searing unpredictability of the octave fuzz is so fun to play with!

[@maxcassells5398]

Getting a pink floyd kinda vibe from the first solo ! Loving it my dude !

[@spookyroofus]

I thought so too, but TBH I think that's more about Eric's great gilmore-esque bending than it is the octane fuzz ...

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Gilmour is forever such a huge influence on my playing - the whole go slow, let the notes bloom thing!

[@tomrabbani]

AWESOME playing

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks so much Tom!

[@fkorekore265]

Zvex Fuzz Factory is an endless mine for insane fuzz fun. Octave, fat, ring, velcro, broken radio...all kinds of cracked sustain.. and farts too. Also a good piece to add to any fuzz or dist is the EHX Octave Multiplexer for down octave territories.

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

Farts? Sold

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah Zvex stuff is GREAT!

[@thecharlieramirez]

That tone is delightful.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks so much Charlie! So FAT! Even on my mustang!

[@danielsauriol]

The "sound" that a fuzz does on the attack of the string being picked is so awesome (what Eric refers to at 10:47, my apologies ; I do not know to paste a hyperlink that points to the exact section of the song, if somebody can tell me, I'd surely appreciate). Some songs come out really nice with a fuzz. Sunshine of your love, No TIme left you by the Guess Who, and any lead/melodyat the 12th freth using the neck pagic just makes me really happy !!! Eric, thanks a lot for your usual inspiring phasing. THANK YOU!!! :=) -dan

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! Fuzz is such a unique tool! Very unpredictable, but very powerful!

[@torontolarrivee7965]

Woah...inspiring. Props again on that plant collection.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks ol' buddy! The plants are definitely enjoying the newest HQ!

[@angelsrr]

Eric, you played it like a Boss !

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Robert!

[@tim.casey.11]

You’re making me miss my BOSS Hyper Fuzz pedal! I never found a proper use for it, but I know that same laugh hearing whatever noises it made, haha.. What a cool effect!

[@tim.casey.11]

Also, mushrooms and weed. Yes.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! The cackle of delight - that's what we hope all our devices do for us!

[@pendulemify]

Man that sounds real cool

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Sean! So much fun with this pedal

[@jacktrent5648]

Didn't know you were in N.C. as well! I've been running my mustang through a cheapo joyo voodoo octave for a few years now and I've had a lot of fun.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Cool! I love how with guitar stuff, the affordable stuff is just as much fun as the expensive stuff!

[@benkosh488]

Joyo voodoo octave is underrated

[@zProminence]

Sounds EPIC!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@wilbertcook5076]

Some nice tasty bends and squeals Eric. Love the sounds you get out of it.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks wilbert! As you can see, I was having a really good time with that fuzzy

[@donkeevney]

Love it.

[@chi-city-living3871]

Very helpful video! The octive fuzz is definitely very unique and needs to be played that way. I have a Danoelectric 3699 Foxx Octave Fuzz, so much you can do if know how.

[@americandj0513]

"octave fuzz is to fuzz as mushrooms is to weed, the next level" did this man just confirm weed is a gateway drug??😂😂😂 Great video man!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

hahahaha TOTALLY!

[@mikebromelow8514]

GREAT DEMO DUDE

[@nathannapier7740]

Love that tone!!!!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Nathan! The combination of old mustang, octave fuzz, and Hiwatt worked so well!

[@nathannapier7740]

@@EricHaugenGuitar wish I could find one of these pedals, but they are scarce right now. I'm definitely pining for a vintage Mustang too 🤣

[@MrDavid997]

It would have been so classic if an old lady started banging on that window saying “ turn that fucking thing down”. And a very red eyed Eric just keeps jamming. Great pedal demo. They are sold out now.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

hahahaha! btw the Augustus is sold out on his website, but the dealers still have them: www.russomusic.com/products/dusky-augustus-octave-fuzz-pedal

[@carlospaz28]

Long live the Hairy Fuzz! Ive recently bought the Movall Octopuss and love it from minute one.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! Fuzz is such a wild, unpredictable paintbrush - I love how you have to play to it, rather than just click it on and continue as normal.

[@b-real754]

Great teaching

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@Krunnky]

Sound awesome!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man!

[@mikenorris1914]

One of the best tones I’ve heard in that intro

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Mike! It's crazy how fat that Mustang, Octave Fuzz, & Hiwatt combo is!

[@ericthielmusic9897]

Awesome tone, and love these licks! I've always enjoyed that sound, but didn't know it was octave fuzz that was responsible. I feel like I can hear RHCP songs with this sound for the solos. Maybe "If You Have to Ask." Can't place it right now.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah that’s a GREAT solo! Maaaaan that whole record is just 🔥

[@JasonClute]

Of all many pedals I don’t have an octave fuzz. Big fuzz fan though. Not sure how it sounds with octave fuzz but I love being up on higher notes, bending one string up to unison of other string and then moving it out of unison. Total chaos 🤘🏾🖤

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yes! The CHAOS! Feels good to summon chaos rather than live in like we all do hahahaha

[@Stonecrow25]

Out of stock. Must be flying off the shelf after that demo. Great stuff

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! I'm so happy for Chris! He's a really good dude who makes solid stuff! Wow, I just checked all his dealers - it's sold out everywhere! I didn't realize my demo was THAT good!

[@haroldroberts5250]

The mushroom analogy is fantastic.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I was proud of that one :-)

[@LSDis4me]

I'll buy that initial comparison. Ya could use fuzz everyday, but it's better to have clean days. Octave fuzz is for select occasions that should be pre-planned. This video gave me an excuse to have the singer/other guitarist in my band send me my octave fuzz pedal (and Key9 pedal), that he borrowed since before Covid started and band practice ended in March.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yesss! Octave fuzz is quite an intense trip! Still controllable, but not for everyday :-)

[@JC3D]

sounds great

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Jasen! It's amazing how FAT that pedal is!

[@JC3D]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Have you ever tried an octave effect on vocals? Do you sing? You know Clapton got stuck in a country (some passport work visa thing?) - anyway this other guitar player guy asked him - why don't you sing? Eric Clapton is great before he sings - but once he got going some cool tunes came out.

[@fotoajojo]

Add a wah with a slow sweep or changing locked positions and some echo and verb. Who needs shrooms? Check out the Frenchies - SLIFT, particularly the title track to UMMON.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yes! Throw a wah in and that's next galaxy freak out stuff! Adding SLIFT to my playlist now!

[@SG13232]

You still have the best tone on KZbin!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man! This is the first one in the new HQ - this room is sounding FAT!

[@spacecowboy6242]

I love how you love that F. Mustang haha

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah my trusty old mustang! Been with me FOREVER

[@GregKhar-NU-Metalhead2000]

Perfect synth-y guitar

[@jamesf2918]

I don’t know how your channel has flown under my radar, but you had me at mushrooms and weed. And a Hiwatt

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Check, check, and check!

[@kentbeery4941]

Always killer Tone !

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Kent!

[@DuskyElectronics]

Hey everybody! Yes, these are sold out world wide, but we're making more! Sign up for our mailing list on our web site, and get notified as soon as these are shipping again. We have a modest backorder list to work through first, then we'll make these generally available again. It should just be a few weeks!

[@Jerrys_missing_finger]

I received one of these today and it blows me away. Bar far the best sounding effect and pedal I own. Sooo good. My neighbors are going to LOVE this thing.

[@veshaw.]

Yeah I've heard that before sir everyone has a price would my daughter's kidney change your mind don't worry she 5 she'll never know it was missing it'll grow bacc

[@DuskyElectronics]

@@veshaw. Just $200 is fine. They're in stock right now. Keep the kidney!

[@gab_ale]

That' one cool and perfectly executed solo.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks buddy! It's actually from an instrumental track from my last EP: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent

[@gab_ale]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Yeah. I got it as soon as it came out thru Bandcamp.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Thanks so much man! The new record is gonna be a somewhat chiller, vibey response to the big guitars of that last one

[@gab_ale]

@@EricHaugenGuitar Waiting for it.

[@jjstudiosjj2408]

Holy hell! That didn’t sound like it’s coming from single coils Sounds.... 70s P90s or humbuckerish Thick and juicy especially when the notes bloom

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Right??!! So fat!!!

[@themightykyuss]

Yo that sounded sick af

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks duders!

[@blues61]

Good stuff! I cut my teeth on a silicon FuzzFace clone (Mooer Grey Faze) and then built my own germanium-based clone last year. Really happy with my DIY pedal, especially the sustain it adds. I included a bias control (ala Analogman Sunface) that lets me dial in a fat, tad spitty sound or a smoother, overdrive-like sound. I labeled it "Old School Fuzz". Right now, I'm putting the finishing touches on a DIY Fuzzrite clone (think In-a-gadda-da-vida) that I'm labeling "Psych Fuzz".

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I'm jealous! I'm too shitty at soldering to do much more than a speaker swap. I always thought I'd like build my own amps and pedals, but I don't think that really a skill I have.

[@blues61]

@@EricHaugenGuitar It's a fun pastime, but sometimes I wonder if my time would be better spent on practicing... lol.

[@jkf9167]

Check out what you can do with E barre chord arpeggios (F-shape?) with sus-4s on the high strings around the 7th -12th frets with an octave fuzz. Chimy clanging tintinabulations.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

ooooh yeah! especially if you chop up the picking! Good call Josh!

[@samkirkhammusic]

this is awesome

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Sam!

[@macsarcule]

I didn’t know that I desperately, physically need an octave fuzz until watching this video. 🤘😃🎸

[@LuckyDejardin]

Gosh man it makes me want to take the road with a Stoner trio ... love that pedal.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Exactly! Chris did a great job of making sure the fuzz keeps all the bass that you need - it doesn't thin out at all!

[@fatworksfoods]

That jam at the start was killer dude.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man! It's actually a redo of a solo from my EP: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent

[@dougfa3515]

I chortle with excitement along with your cackle of delight!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

yessssss yessssss (wrings hands menacingly)

[@dougfa3515]

@@EricHaugenGuitar 😂🤣😂

[@henryrogers5500]

“Worth $200 alone.” 😂 Love it! I’d have to agree. Fantastic video! Thanks. Also, nice rig you have there!

[@veeks1]

When you went into Josh Homme land, it was just so perfect. Please do some videos on his style!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yeah! I've been ruminating of him for a few weeks now - there's some really unique stuff that he does, chordally and melodically.

[@brennanmcnally]

@@EricHaugenGuitar I second that - dive more into those weird scales!

[@_jelic3719]

Getting a Fu Manchu vibe of it. Great playing and great tone.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks man! I love all that Kyuss/Fu Manchu/QOTSA desert rock!

[@ismaelbelda1]

Great video, great playing (as always) and great pedal. Also, you’re so high.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I feel seen! hahahaha Naw, I don't film these vids high - my eyes would be so friggin' red.

[@ismaelbelda1]

Ok, maybe it’s just pedal-giddiness: the uncontrolled laughter, the extatic expressions, the uninhibited creativity, the childish happiness... probably better than most drugs. By the way, I love your videos. Cheers!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I'm kinda perma-stoned. Even in college, I remember my professors thinking I was high all the time because I'm so damn goofy and out of it.

[@unkolawdio]

Love it

[@benmorris118]

I found the octave dive bomb thing by accident on a home made fuzz a while ago and just assumed something had gone wrong in the wiring, so it's nice to know I'm not a total hack and that it is kinda normal

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! I don't know exactly why it happens but some overdrives do it too!

[@sloppy_hand]

not that I now a lot about electronics, but DIYin some pedals myself, and spending lots of times (mostly when lacking money for parts, like, almost all the time) reading about some gear and how they sound the way they sound, I've figured out that octave fuzz pedals like the Green Ringer, the Univox SuperFuzz and some encarnations of the Roger Mayer Octavia (not the early version, as Roger Mayer claims Tychobrahe copied), all of them work by having a fuzz (first) stage, followed by another transistor working as a phase splitter, that then are merged together again. That transistor in phase splitter mode kinda does what the "cathodyne" does in the 5e3 Tweed Deluxe amps, it split the signal in two (in case of the 5e3, it is a push pull amp, and the two halves of the signal goes to each of the 2 output tubes), but some of these cathodyne amps are know to have a nasty blocking distortion when cranked, because something happens on the phase splitter. those falty cathodynes Tweed Deluxes are like having a Superfuzz amp in a way. then, there's the Tychobrahe (and the early Roger Mayer octavia) that works by having a transformer instead of the transistor phase splitter, and from the transformer, each signal halve goes into a diode that rectifies and double the frequency (if you build a power suply, with let's say a 9 - 0 -9 vac transformer, and put it through a 4 diode full wave rectifier, you'll figure out you'll get 18vdc... that's what transformers with a center tap into rectifier do. don't ask me how they do it, the physics of it, because I still don't know, I learn by practicing). I've read somewhere that the transformer messes with the voltage (kinda sags), so, Tychobrahes "swell and bloom" may have to do with that. Anyway, sorry for the long comment, if someday someone who really knows electronics read it, I hope they point me if I'm on the right track with that, or it was a long bullshit comment

[@andychase7693]

Your "guitar face" is on point!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I can't control it!

[@nati1025]

that tone is delicious

[@williamcampbell7387]

I recall walking through the Melhorn's north pasture in Defuniak Springs, FL seeking saprophyta among the bovine ejecta in 1973. A whole different heavy metal experience: Brew, drink, puke, stare, stumble, repeat.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

This comment reads like a poem! Love it!

[@mattgilbert7347]

I like it as I do breathing air. Own far, far too many. Current fave is the VOX Trike. -1, -2, +1 Octaves and awesome Fuzz tone. It is to mushrooms as molly is to mda.

[@geraldfriend256]

Source Audio multiwave is my fave octave fuzz.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

ooh I've never had the pleasure of playing that one!

[@mattgilbert7347]

@@geraldfriend256 Is that available via the Neuro Community? I have an LA Lady

[@AverageBeausOutdoor]

Raleigh, Represent! Dusky pedals are next on my list. Made here in Durham, N.C.! I hope everyone is having a great day. Wealth and Happiness.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

We've got so many great tone makers here in NC! Germino, Carr, Dusky, Swart, Tophat, Alexander - it's bonkers!

[@owlytimbre9103]

Yeah, Eric. That's a bloomin' burner of some timbre. What was the psyche rock outfit you played in?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Quite a few now that I think of it! That opening jam is actually from my EP: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent

[@cjscala87]

I love using the neck pickup and ditching the tone knob all the way to bring out the octave to the max.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ooooh I gotta try that!

[@marcelbelanger4424]

Whoa, you got such cool sounds out of that pedal! Were you playing it into a clean or dirty amp?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Aha! I forgot to play the bypass signal! The Hiwatt is set to mostly clean, just the tiniest amount of flub on the low notes.

[@billwesley]

Some effects pedal explanation videos are painful to watch, this one is a joy to watch. A fuzz clips off the tops and bottoms of a wave which suggests too much energy to get through too little a space, (for example a rocket or a jet or an engine) which is exactly what fuzz sounds like. The Octavia flips the bottoms of the waves over so there are only tops which is like cutting something in half and flipping one side over which does far more than just clip things, this utterly destroys most things. The Octavia does BOTH process's, it clips and flips at the same time, its not only like a rocket, its like a rocket that is also a canon! Because the Octavia is quite literally mega explosive in its effect we need to treat it as such, with discipline and care if we wish to avoid getting caught up in our own explosions. Most players don't get this so avoid the pedal, they pound a few sloppy chords get a big mess and give up. No, this is the subtlest of any effect, you need to play with extreme economy, the less you play the more the pedal adds, the more you play the less the pedal adds, restraint is the key and the reward is the exact opposite, you sound FREE and UNRESTRAINED as reward for playing conservatively and precisely. Tiny differences in relative string amplitudes make large differences in the sound, the same interval sounds very different depending on which string is louder and on when each string is activated! This means the player must focus attention on the tiniest details of amplitude and timing with hyper neat control, the reward is the opposite, the pedal then sounds as if one were somewhat out of control and wild! If you actually play without discipline you just sound like you made a senseless mess, its the most counter intuitive pedal there is, more is not more, less is not less, rather when a pedal both clips AND flips the poor wave for the player more becomes less and less becomes more. The thing a player should know and you have shown that rather well is a person has to leave musical space for the pedal to fill, if one fills all the musical space the pedal just gets in the way, precision and simplicity of playing are the key to a tone that is rough and complex. Please keep making more good videos.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Excellent explanation Bill! You know you're stuff! I never really understand the electricity side of things - it's a limit of my intelligence :-)

[@liampezzano]

I NEED to know more about these years as lead in a psychedelic rock band. Do you have lessons on that?

[@simdoyle]

That would be a good candidate for a Netflix pilot....

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh the floors I've slept on......

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ha! Not exactly - but that experience definitely taught me a lot!

[@danielsauriol]

@@EricHaugenGuitar we want to know about the shows but also about the mushrooms themselves and the associated mood/trip!!! Definitely a trip down memory lane for me !!!

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodBallsack]

you sure look like a guy who knows a lot about the correlation between weed and mushrooms

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Guilty!

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodBallsack]

@@EricHaugenGuitar 😂😂 awesome video tho, been looking at that octave fuzz for a while, really want it

[@slackbabbath9051]

That riff sounds like a song you used to have uploaded on your channel that I used to bump all the time! Band name or song had "Owl" in the title. Where can we hear that now?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's part of an EP I put up on Bandcamp and itunes: erichaugen.bandcamp.com/track/serpent I think I used to call it "dirt eaters howl," but then I switched the name to "serpent." Thanks so much for listening!

[@innocentoctave]

That's a very good sounding fuzz. Normally, people say that the octave effect is best heard when playing above the 12th fret, but that didn't seem to be the case here: the fundamental note and the octave seem better integrated across the fingerboard. Of course, if you want the really pronounced high register octave fuzz a la Hendrix, this pedal might be a little too smooth for you.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah I'd say it's fatter than the typical octavia - which I like. I haven't messed around with it long though, there might be a way to set it to be more high octave

[@raspberryjuiceentertainmen719]

That solo in the beginning sounds so exotic… what scales did you use?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

It's mostly minor pentatonic, with one jazz run at the beginning! btw - that's from one of my tunes "Serpent." You can listen wherever you stream music just look up my name :-)

[@brandonkeller478]

This is so aesthetic

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks Brandon! If I had the money/crew all my videos would look like Wes Anderson movies!

[@unkolawdio]

In opening,,,that tone ,,,wow

[@gumbilicious1]

I built a green ringer clone. They are like this but raunchier. Green ringer doesn’t have distortion built in so you get to match it with any type of distortion device you want

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oooh I'll have to try one of those!

[@Zadows7991]

Wow!

[@MajicFreeman]

I see one cab with 1x12 in it and one mic, what's the stereo panning effect from? u said delay, but it's not even ping pong delay it's like an auto panner or something tone reminded me of like eric johnson a little

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Good ear! I'm using U-he Colour Copy delay plugin, and it's swirling the the delays left to right.

[@dmanntube]

Nice psilocybin analogy too. Play on!

[@fotoajojo]

Spaceman Nebula on a Rivolta Mondata Baritone. YUM YUM

[@martuscellifaria]

That stop bend fits right a Mudhoney kinda vibe

[@majpix]

Great stuff. Will the oct e fuzz be the sound of Springsteen’s Candy’s room solo

[@majpix]

Thanks.. but ... but.. can it sound like the Springsteen Candy's room solo??

[@zoinkiezz]

Jesus this guy is great

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Aww shucks thanks Bryan!

[@dmanntube]

Righteous fretwork, brother :)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Thanks D M!