Featuring 12 sliders (yes, twelve), the Octave V delivers more punch than pedals Vtimes its size. Until this point, almost all analog octavers worked exclusively in the “down” realm, from MXR’s Blue Box to Electro-Harmonix’s Octave Multiplexer. Octave-up designs were relegated to transformer-equipped fuzzes and other magical circuit bits found in fuzz boxes. However, the Octave V not only serves up one- and two-octave-down effects, but an octave up, a dry slider, and distortion effects across all of them. That is to say, you can distort just one octave effect and keep the others clean, or you can turn up the dry slider and its corresponding distortion for a truly great overdrive effect. As you might expect, cranking the distortion on all channels spits out some gnarly stuff, replete with noise. Well, Korg has you covered with a noise gate control. They really thought of everything.
