CBOP “ANGRY Octaver”

Bending Guide

Using This Guide
Bending Guides show specific bends that I have identified as interesting. Color-coded circles indicate separate bending points that all connect to a common point. I call this the Point of Origin (or POO) and indicate the POO with a circle marked with an “X”.

Occasionally a circle will be marked with a zigzag line . This means that I found it useful to add a potentiometer between this point and the POO. These are optional additions–the bend will function just fine with a normal switch.

Suggested Pot Values

Red 4 – 1M
Blue 1 – 1M
Blue 3 – 1k
Blue 4 – 10k
Green 2 – 100k
Orange 2 – 10k
Orange 3 – 1M

I appreciate that this is an obnoxious variety of potentiometer values, but these are the values I found gave me the best performance for each bend. If you don’t want to buy a bunch of new pots, just use what you have.

Other Components

Green 3 – I found a sweet spot with this bend using a 300R fixed resistor
Orange 1 – I wired this to a center-off SPDT switch, where one side of the switch makes the bend uninterrupted and the other side connects through a 1k resistor
Purple 1 – Same as above, only connecting through a 200k resistor

Tone Generation

I also found a few tone-generation bends that produce persisting squeals and squalls. These weren’t what I was looking for in this project, but if you wanted to build an all-in-one noise machine, you wouldn’t go wrong exploring the white boxes above.

Built from: Arion MOC-1 Octave

Number of bends: 16 20

Description: ~~One of the few commissioned builds from the BentPedals.com line-up. The ANGRY Octaver features squealing tone generation, funky ultra bass vibrato and heinous distortion~~.

**NEW**

This is another example of a moniker that really hits the nail on the head. The ANGRY Octaver is chock full of distortions: everything from mild overdrive, through warm fuzzy and all the way to obliterative walls of crunch.

But, it’s not a one-trick pony. The ANGRY Octaver also has some gating effects, bass enhancement that borders on rhythmic and a few that sound like weird clock-hacking modulation (despite the seeming lack of a clock). All-in-all, a flexible tool for getting down and dirty.

Real dirty.

Demos

The following demos all feature a drum machine running through the CBSD. Each demo starts with a clean signal, then the delay is turned on, then the bend is connected. There is slight compression and limiting on the signal, but no additional effects.

Red 1