New pedals from MXR

Bass Octave Deluxe and '76 Dyna Comp announced

Press Release, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 4:23 pm BST

PRESS RELEASE: The M288 Bass Octave Deluxe is a dual-voice octave pedal from MXR Bass Innovations that offers organic analogue tone, true bypass, and a wide variety of tone-shaping options.

Powered by a single 9v battery, MXR's Constant Headroom Technology (CHT) provides studio-performance headroom and superior tracking. Use the Dry knob to mix your direct bass signal with the octave effect, or hit the Mid+ switch to add up to +15dB of internally adjustable low-mid punch (400Hz) or midrange pop (800Hz).

Bass players will love the two separately processed and individually voiced octave controls - Growl (for throaty, midrange octave-below tones) and Girth for deep and smooth 'octave below' note tracking. The MXR Bass Octave Deluxe pedal retails at £239 GBP.

Custom Shop '76 Vintage Dyna Comp

Following on from the fabulous sound of 2008's as-faithful-as-it-can-get re-issue of the legendary '74 MXR Custom Shop Phase 90 (effectively the definitive year for this unit), well, now we have the equally definitive Custom Shop MXR '76 Vintage Dyna Comp!

See, the so-far hidden secret to getting that nicely-controlled sound that pro players seem to get in the studio or live on stage, is to use a compressor. As ever, studio versions are like blimey-how-much? x 10 expensive, and anyway a stomp box version is far more practical, too.

But it's got to be a high quality unit and perform as efficiently and quietly as possible, but what it'll do is to smooth out your sound, taking any too-pronounced top off your guitar sound whilst bringing up any excess lower range too.

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