CBOP “ANGRY Octaver”

Bending Guide

Using This Guide
Bending Guides show specific bends that we have identified as interesting. Color-coded circles indicate separate bending points that all connect to a common point. We 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 we 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

We appreciate that this is an obnoxious variety of potentiometer values, but these are the values we found gave us 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 – We found a sweet spot with this bend using a 300R fixed resistor
Orange 1 – We 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

We also found a few tone-generation bends that produce persisting squeals and squalls. These weren’t what we were 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