Electro-Harmonix C9, Nano POG, Octavix and

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BACK
when Mike Matthews
founded Electro-
Harmonix in 1968, we doubt even he could
have foreseen the overwhelming breadth
of pedals spread across the company’s
catalogue today. Analogue classics such
as the Big Muff, Small Clone and Deluxe
Memory Man cemented EHX’s place in
stompbox history, but recent years have
seen an increasing number of evolutions
and innovations from the New York-based
mad scientists, a handful of which we’ve
lassoed into this here round-up. The C9
and Nano POG build on the company’s
relatively recent lineage of polyphonic
pitch-shifters, while the Octavix pays
homage to EHX’s greatest hits courtesy
of an all-analogue fuzz circuit. Then there’s
the Super Pulsar, which combines the best
of analogue and digital worlds for one
all-conquering tremolo. Let’s see if they all
live up to the legacy…
ELECTRO-HARMONIX
C9 ORGAN MACHINE
£142
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NANO POG
£149
C9 more lives Working like a POG
IF EHX’S first Organ Machine, the B9,
provided the foundations, the C9 takes
the potential sky high with nine new
organ emulations. We’re talking
prog-tastic fifth-up sounds, Light My Fire
keys and Brian Eno-esque shimmers.
Like the B9, tracking is superb, although
there’s still some slight latency to the
organ signal. While conventional organ
effects – a la Deep Purple, Led Zep et al
are available – the additional versatility
offered by presetssuch as the dead-on
Strawberry Fields Forever Mello Flutes
make this a better buy than the B9 in
our book.
STARTING AS a giant metal cuboid
back in 2005, the POG’s flawless
polyphonic tracking and ease of use
made it an instant hit with the likes of
Jack White and Joe Satriani. Now in its
most compact incarnation yet, the
Nano POG continues to handle like a
champ, with infallible tracking and some
of the most natural octaves you’ll get
out of a pedal-based pitch-shifter.
There’s still a touch of latency (try
palm-muting and you’ll see what we
mean), but adding dirt yields chunky
riffs, beastly chords and convincing
bass impersonations.
£69£189
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Step right up for organ emulations, pitch-shifting, rhythmic tremolo,
octave-fuzz insanity and more from the wacky world of EHX
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