Boss MO-2 Multi-Overtone - Yeah, But What Does It Do?
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- I kept hearing about how amazing the MO-2 was, but couldn't find a straight answer about what it actually does. To be honest, after spending a few days with it, I'm still not 100% sure, but we can at least take a deeper dive. I think you'll be impressed.
Additional sound effects from www.zapsplat.com
All songs by me
Chapters:
0:00 - What does it do?
0:56 - Demo #1 - “Get New Pillows”
2:44 - Controls
6:30 - With Distortion
7:38 - Overtones and Harmonics
11:52 - Demo #2 - “Yellow Stain”
13:15 - Wrapup
It’s a Prog 70’s pedal. Sorted
It's an overtone pedal, Luane! Do you want me to bring the cat in here and see if he gets it?! Cos the cat's gonna get it
Perfection.
@@StompboxBreakdown haha first time I've ever had a YT comment pinned, very pleased it was this one personally. Great t shirt man, great video too :)
Can I borrow a feeling? ...Will you lend me a jar of love?
It's almost too simple. 🇵🇸
This will be the final video you watch before buying a pedal, this guy does it right!
Dude, I love your demos. Unlike a lot of other content creators, you really break down what one can expect when purchasing a pedal. I just sub'd because, why not? You responded to my BBE tremolo comment. So anyway, you and AndyDemos are awesome, keep doing what you do.
100%. Jeff here and Andy Martin's are my two favorite video channels. Stefan Fast of Pedal Zone is also great. What they all have in common is no-nonsense, minimal hype just play the pedal and show what it can do with a bit of exposition where needed.
I love your style of demos (only have watched a few so far). This video sold me on this pedal.
Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it.
LOVE your humor plus good solid, helpful information !!!
Thank you so much!
My favourite pedal of all time. Impossible to explain to people. But, fun fact: It sounds KILLER after a wah pedal. The way the octaves respond to the EQ shift accentuates how vocal the wah sounds, and adds harmonic characteristics otherwise unachievable. In Mode 1, it sounds marvellous before a wah too.
Fun tip, if you want to use this for vocals, try setting it to Mode 1, diming the Tone knob, and turning the Balance the whole way down, then nudge it upward as slightly as possible. If you're using stereo-out from the M0-2, try diming the Detune knob. I found that gives vocals a nice tape-y tone, similar to the effects used for vocals on Toto's Africa.
I really love your demos!
Thank you so much
Great video with a lot of precious data. You're a f****** genius. Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina!
Thank you, I needed this explanation!!
This is pretty damn subtle and neat! It's like the best octave pedal I have ever heardeded.
Very well done! You present the pedals in a pleasant way, still very informative and with a nice portion of humour.
I also appreciate the effort - and results - in filming, editing, sound quality and creating some backing music to it once in a while!
Concerning the MO-2, what I hear the most, is the "octavish" charakter of the more prominent overtones.
Thus for me, the guitar sound gets a bit of an "organesque" support. Like it!
Thank you! I'm glad you pick up what I'm putting down. I think the other pedals are doing a filter-into-pitch-shift thing, which sounds organ/synth-ish, but relies on tracking. This seems to be doing a deeper analysis of the signal where it can pull out, and using that to either pitch-shift or synthesize something to round out the sound. I've seen people get a really convincing 12-string sound out of it... for me, I mostly had fun with that organ sound, for sure.
@@StompboxBreakdown Thumbs up again 4 the great reply! Cheers! 🙂
I have on my my board, I tend to use it to fill out clean parts with a kind of B3 sound just to give to some depth. I also used it on our next single, burnt Orange Michigan out at the end of the month to beef up the guitar sound towards the end of the song, along with an ehx pitch fork! - great videos, for an under rated pedal!
I play a couple of different electric mandolins (5 string) through this pedal. The mode switch is really clear with these instruments. 1 = octave above dry note, 2 = octave above and same octave as dry note, 3 = octave above, same octave, and octave below dry note.
I use it to broaden the range of the emando; give it some breadth and depth. It works well for playing without someone (keys or guitars) who covers the midrange as a matter of course, especially when playing single note melodies.
Currently using one in between my two fuzzes to enhance and thicken the tone with mode 3 and make even more octave artifacts pop out of the super fuzz it's going into right after. Only need a bit of wet signal to get a good amount of an extra layer of harmonic tones, noise and sizzle. All the extra tones really make for some epic sounding looping with some reverb. I've never got these sounds with a pitch shifter or a harmonizer.
That sounds really interesting, could you expand a bit on your rig; what fuzzes,guitar,amp,etc?
I'm an fn nerd when it comes to octave+fuzz related glitching and artifacts,I'm not happy unless my guitar sounds like robot diarrhea in monophonic disjunction hell lol.
Most of my collection is built around those sorts of sounds,from the venerable blue box and DOD buzzbox all the way up to the eqd data corrupter and other such boutique offerings.
I'm waiting on a shields blender general production preorder that I'm really excited for.
You seem to be the brother I wish I had. Subscribed!
Haha, thank you. First time I’ve ever heard that!!
Your bassist is awesome )))))) Thanks for the review, very interesting pedal!
Haha, he's pretty good, Doesn't complain, and I can pay him in mozzarella sticks.
Great work!
Thank you!
Thanks for the fairly thorough dive. This seems to be going for a ~sympathetic strings~ effect like you might get on some sitar, the odd lute, or gittern. [+ octave / DSP jazz]
It reminds me a lot of E-mu's Z-plane filters they developed in the '90s, similar to a sampler patch or three I made back in the day.
Cheers :) 🍻
I swear, every time you do a video on a pedal that I'm planning to feature myself at some point, I come away feeling like I no longer need to.
Great job, dude! 😎👍
I still want to see your take on this. Boss left this pedal's role so ambiguous, I bet five different players would come up with five different things they'd use the pedal for.
You’re the only you.
@@StompboxBreakdown Haha, well ok then! I guess I'll have to keep an eye out for one...
We want to see your unique take on it. I've just watched the new Domek video on it. His take is different yet again (a fellow noise connoisseur) but we all bring something to the table. Every take explores different ways to use a device.
Love the intro (feels so familiar)
love the dignity shirt
well done.
The effect sorta sounds like a Hammond organ, or whatever John Lord used.
Getting jazz organ meets Black Hole Sun vibes here, very cool!
Your jams were great!
Thank you Starlight! That means a lot
Awesome shirt!
love the beginning bit. That's me when I'm explaining synth circuits to my friends who dont give a damn lol This thing is kinda cool, like Boss's take on a unique modulator. Seems like its triangulated somewhere between a uni-vibe, time modulator and granular processor.
Nice video! It would be interesting to hear what this pedal would do on a bass.
So it turns your guitar into a church organ, got it.
🌚🌝
It kind of sounds like a vibrotone or rotary +chorus cool, but it also sounds like a lot of the over produced 80's stuff. Great video even if I'm not in love with yet another boss pedal.
I dig it.
Multi Overtone and Tera Echo are my favorite algorithms of Boss！
I sure wish more pedal demonstrations proceeded like this one, just going through the settings one by one, the pedal before the distortion, after the distortion. Needless to say I've subscribed to this channel.
It sounds like channel 3 adds a sub octave, channel one an octave up and perhaps is 2 both? The de tune seems to be doing what a flanger does.
It sounds really nice after the distortion like a sitar or something, kind of blown out before the distortion, like an overdriven tube amp.
I have one. Two is a "mids setting" ...
mode 1 is Octave up = high
mode 2 is __________ = mids
mode 3 is Octave down = low
Cool jams, first one made me think of early Yes, and loved that second one that called to mind Prince’s Purple Rain outro. No idea if those are in the ballpark, but loved those jams.
This was a challenging pedal, and I’m sure to explore and plan out a video. Much thumbs up for a great exploration and explanation. ✌️🙂🎸
Second one was definitely Purple Rain, not sure what I was going fit on the first one. Thanks for watching, it was tricky, with not a lot of info to go on.
LOL 😆
Love your intro!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It sounds a lot like a Leslie....
And I’m sure that it uses algorithms from Leslie pedals.
You’ve really don’t an excellent review.
I think the confusion about this pedal is basically because Boss is putting more emphasis on HOW they are achieving the effect than what the effect is, actually.
I believe that this pedal is relying on the same technology as was originally developed with a plugin like Melodyne where you can digitally manipulate a polyphonic signal by separating out the individual notes by some kind of digital magic and you can then alter those notes to be something else.... mess with the harmonic structure of them. Melodyne will let you change a single track with multiple harmonies and tune each voice differently. That miracle technology has brought us the Multi-Overtone and later, the EHX -9 synth/keyboard simulator pedals and the Boss SY-1/SY-1000 Guitar Synths that require no special hexaphonic pickup. I am not certain if this is how the Digitech Drop/Whammy did their thing, though. It's possible.
The technology is pretty incredible, make no mistake. This stuff must have come from aliens, if you ask me.
This effect, however, is much easier to describe if you ignore HOW it's doing it's job (by analyzing, deconstructing and manipulating the harmonics) and just say what it sounds like. It's a pitch shifter/detune pedal. By those functions, it can do a pretty good job at simulating a 12-string guitar or an organ with a leslie on it. You can do many other creative things with it as well, but at it's core, those are the effects you should expect from it.
Because of how it does it's thing, it doesn't have the same sort of latency that an typical old school digital pitch shifter does. That is an improvement, for sure. It's not going to mis-track or glitch like a pitch-voltage guitar synth. It's not going to go crazy like an old school monophonic analog octave-down pedal or sound fuzzy and ringy like an old school octave-up fuzz like an Octavia. You can certainly combine it with other pedals to make some crazy sounds, though. I love how you demonstrated distortion BEFORE and AFTER the pedal. That's a huge difference that not everyone understands.
Sounds awesome combined with a Slicer SL2, creativity overload, perfected at last! We've waited since 1947. Roswell unit not easy to back engineer
sounds more like a chorus/vibrato thing with reverb added LMAO
@@-jank-willsonit literally doesn’t have any reverb and it adds a separate pitch?
It's a EHX POG with a fixed setting and 3 detune intensity presets
Enough said
Yes, but half the price and half the size.
@@jimkranz2181 and a third of interest
@@jumpingman8160 Each there own. It work for me. Just didn't need the flexibility of the POG. Doesn't mean it doesn't do exactly what they made it to do.
@@jimkranz2181 sure
I just ordered this pedal! To me this pedal seems perfect for getting some deep purple /rainbow tones
That's awesome! Enjoy it!!
Seems like a cool sleeper pedal. Almost like it's amplifying the "synthy" sound that people say bad octave pedals have. But that actually makes it interesting.
Definitely a sleeper. I use a synth pedal (SY-1) with my bass for a cover band, just to get a somewhat more dramatic sound, but it doesn't handle chords and dynamics quite like this. It's a totally different approach. Neat stuff, glad Boss is still trying stuff out.
@@StompboxBreakdown Interesting. I've heard the SY-1 handles polyphony well. I've been wanting to get one to compare it to EHX's Synth9.
I just found out Mercedes from Softcult uses one of these and immediately had to find out what it does lol their sound is so cool
Oooh I didn’t know that, but it makes total sense.
I really want to get one of these and try it on my electric 12 string now, it has the type of thing i think about a 12 on the 6 so adding that to a 12 would be fun
ALL THE STRINGS!!
It's dignity!!!
Yeah it adds adds some organ grinding into your mix. I run mine in from of a Pi muff for a massive sound.
Would be super sweet for covers of Earth's Bees Made Honey. Interesting!
Mode 3 with little detune reminds me of that hokey match organs. Boss really went crazy with this line of pedals. It's a shame that they are mostly ignored by most people.
My Tera Echo never leaves my pedalboard. Guess I'll have to find one of these also.
Btw, great review as always
this one is meh, but the Tera Echo is a keeper
Tera Echo is actually useful. This sounds like garbage to me. You can use it as an octave with fuzz/distortion added but that's not exactly a new sound.
I forget where I read the comment, but someone was saying that once the Tera-Echo gets discontinued, it'll get spotted on some well-loved guitarist's board and instantly be in hot demand. I have to agree. I wish I had been doing the demo jams when I covered the TE-2, it really fits into a band jam in a way people don't expect.
Imagine this going into a rotary
Dignity!
Does the boston sound perfect with a stereo set up
I DID NOT know this pedal ....never heard of it or saw it before ...... THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! .....I think it has some settings that are very important for what I'm trying to do. I wonder how it will react with a ringmodulator....
I think the universe might collapse on itself if you were to do that. THIS plus the RT-20 rotary...
@@StompboxBreakdown lol! NO WORRIES! Did you know scientists - I think at CERN - have posed the theory that THEY PROBABLY collapsed the Universe and a new one instantly took its place ? (NO JOKE) ..(and WHAT IF the new copy isn't exactly the same? This could explain the Mandela effect!) Why should the CERN people have all the fun?
@@MYGAS21 I'd believe it. Watched a number of videos about multidimensional parallel universes lately. I'll have to try and find that one, sounds interesting.
@@StompboxBreakdown I heard it from Sean David Morton and I think he was referring to some article.... good luck in findiing it though....post the link here if you do. SO back to music.... I'm currently (for a bell or gamelanish sound for my arpeggios) using a ring modulator only on the treble part of the spectrum and for the rest of the spectrum I layer a KILLER V vibrato that simulates a pulsating bell in this context. The sound has the calm mystical feel I want, but I'm curious to see what more I could do. So I think this pedal could maybe add some useful harmonics - either feeding the ringmodulator or even the Killer V Vibrato with some MO-2 detune (so it's closer to the nature of ringmodulator detuned sound but with a different detune so the true pitch comes through - if that makes sense). I dunno, I'm also considering buying a NUX AMP Academy and loading a DIY gamelan IR in it. QUESTION: Somebody in the comments said that this pedal is a sort of POG...do you think this adds only octave harmonics?
One of the ingredients in Mike Stern's sound
Hmm the effect on the solo in the first demo almost sounds like the old Roland guitar synth used by Fripp.
Dignity
Would I be wrong to say it says like an organ pedal?
If you’re looking for that late 80s thing. Which I always am
Maybe it's an exciter with modulation?
I used one of these as a fake organ pedal. It's a neat effect to add to your leads as well, but it doesn't have a lot of variety.
I got the Red Panda Raster 2 and I'm trying to determine what the MO-2 does differently? I'm hearing all sorts of flange, chorus, and cool wobblings going on, which adds such depth and layering to any sound! I think the Raster does something similar (and more) with exotic flavorings, but the controls are really 'out-there', and 90% of the settings are really unusable. Also, the Raster relies heavily on the web based interface (translation: you need to plug it into the computer, make a bunch of setting adjustments which alter whatever is on the dials), and while that seems cool, it's annoying. I don't have time or patience to be doing all that. The MO-2 seems to take the best sounds out of that, and make it into a more straightforward, easy-to use pedal. Which, I'd consider getting just for the simpler controls!
My hollow body already does this whenever the hell it wants because of the tailpiece TwT
ITS DIGNITY!!
We didn’t all go to Gudger College
I think I here some sound elements of Prince's Purple Rain in this pedal.
How does the stereo output work? Is it a wet/dry split like some other Boss pedals?
Good question. Best I could tell, it seems to be tied to the detune function. I couldn't quite figure out exactly what the stereo function was doing, just that it sounded even bigger. Sorry.
That demo song has some Ween vibes!
Nice, same kind of effect as the Ehx HOG, less versatile but also takes a lot less pedalboard space
Ok so what I got from the first test is it gives you an automatic accompanying rock organ lol
It’s clearly adding an upper and lower octave pitches.
I want this guys shirt more than the pedal
im trying to remember what the hell the image is its so familiar!!
cute old doggo. i hope it's well
Thank you! She’s doing great. We just got a kitten and they’re best friends. It’s super adorable.
Any other company without the matter-of-fact naming structure of Boss would simply call this an organ simulator. That's the simple way to explain it. It makes your guitar sounds like an electronic organ.
the moment you said, "or if you're a dude in your basement surrounded by peavey amps", I was like damn this dude can see me thru the monitor ....is he monitoring me?! lmao.
A basement without Peavey amps just feels empty
Another cool video, man. love the entire MDP series. The Tera Echo is probably my ‘desert island’ pedal. I have this one on my board, too, and use it a a 12-string type of sound. I’m curious as to the difference between the Adaptive Distortion from the series and the DS-1X. I have the DS-1X and it sounds fantastic, but I’ve yet to pick up the AD-2. Do you have any experience with either of these distortions? Thanks for the content!
I haven't played around with the AD-2 or DS-1X. I have to imagine it's different sets of the algorithm's functions being put to use in different ways. These pedals seem to have a more precise way of monitoring dynamics and overtones than anything previous, and it's just doing something else based on that realtime information. If I see a good deal on the AD-2, I'll pick it up, so far it seems to not show up much on the second-hand market.
I run a od1x into and ad2. Great sound. Both have mdp
Dist after!
That shirt. Dignity!! 😂
Mono in 😮💨
Adaptive Distortion >MO2>Tera Echo TE2>Stereo to 2 amps =
Thank you sir may I have another
That combination would melt minds
@Stompbox Breakdown mine is like fondue so yes, it doeeessss....melttt minddzzz
It’s almost like a church organ or something. I love it.
It's got a very "Electro Harmonics" sound to it.
Totally
"We all know what Vin Diesel sounds like" Jokes on you, I don't know a SINGLE THING
A lot the sound reminded me of the sounds of Pete Townshend in the Tommy era!!!
well that's just darn right goofy!
Like you
No I think it's Pluto
I’m a lead bassist (no guitarist in the band), and I use the MO-2 as an octave up (Balance on hi, Tone on zero, Detune on zero, Mode on one), followed by a distortion pedal, going into a guitar amp, and split into a clean bass amp. My sound is wide and huge.
That sounds amazing!!! I wanna listen to your band, got a link?
@@StompboxBreakdown - Thanks! Not quite yet. We have a dozen hard rock originals, but haven’t recorded yet. Soon though!
@@RHINOSAURYou got them yet?
@@RHINOSAURI want to hear the double bass! Sounds really interesting.
@@StompboxBreakdown - Okay, finally recorded a single… it’s called Rainbow, a powerpop anthem dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community. It’s just me singing, on bass, going through 2 amps, and a drummer. We’re called REVULATOR. ruclips.net/video/qOZAeJiFNoE/видео.htmlsi=QMQUuyLTmtCKmE6n
Sounds very similar to a chorus ensemble
I imagine this would sound great if you added it to delays in an FX loop. Or doing Stairway To Heaven covers on a single-neck guitar.
"it's a floor polish... no... it's a dessert topping... hold on... it's both a floor polish AND a dessert topping!!!!".. Mostly it makes you sound out of tune. 🎶
So basically an Octave/ Phaser - got it .
This would be good with an electric piano type sound
My ears hear a 12-string vibe. It also has a organ -sound overtone.
nice g and l
Thank you! Gonna be using it for a lot of videos in the near future
Nice job explaining something that is hard to explain.
Thank you!
subscrived after this video...
Thanks!!
Sounds like a PS2, but without delay.
I wish there was a pedal that made me richer!
Church gigs only, for sure.
This pedal sounds like a harmonium.
I have the Boss GT 1000 core and all I’ve ever got out of the Tera Echois some lame phaser on the repeats.
Do but does it what?
aounds a little like a rotary
Cool video, but what does it do?
Still not sure, but now my clothes smell dryer-line fresh!
Makes me think of Free Falling by Tom Petty.
what the hell are those demo names dude
I have one, it is really diferent...
B9 EHX SUPER!!!! Boss MO-2 shit!!!
so it's a Octaver.
If that’s what an octaver sounds like to you, then sure. Effects are a subjective thing a lot of times.