ELECTRO-HARMONIX MICRO POG
EARTHQUAKER DEVICES ORGANIZER
The original POG was way cool,
offering deep tweakability and
reliable tracking for fake organ
sounds, bass tones, simulated 12- or
18-string guitar sounds, and whatever
else one might come up with while
pushing its little sliders around, but
it was also housed in an impractically
big-ass box. The POG2 shrunk things
down significantly, squishing even
better sounds and more functionality
into a much smaller enclosure. And
while the POG2 offers presets, and
is better for copping super realistic
organ tones or really dialing in your
12-string impression, it’s the newer
Micro POG that I love the best. Its
basic interface, with knobs for dry
mix, sub octave, and octave up, still
allows plenty of sonic flexibility,
but makes for a more elegant,
straightforward user experience. The
Micro is also significantly cheaper
than its more feature-packed sibling.
Earthquaker’s Organizer is the
first polyphonic octave pedal
purpose-built to allow the user to
convincingly mimic organ tones with
a guitar, and it does quite a good
job, with excellent tracking and big,
warm tones that manage to evoke
something of an analog aura. The
pedal’s “Choir” control is the key to
getting the big, room-filling, organ
tones coming out of your guitar
amp. It regenerates the octave up
and octave down tones, mixing and
mashing them, blending in another
two octaves up, two octaves down,
a bit of direct signal, and a bit of
delay, with the end result being a
remarkably convincing church organ
tone that just might make you think
you’ve found religion.
MOOER PURE OCTAVE
Like most Mooer products, the Pure
Octave is extremely affordable
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