Electro-Harmonix POG: Playing The Organ On Your Guitar
Back in the day, if you wanted to play an 18-string guitar, you needed to attach three guitars together. This, of course, was before the double neck guitar was dreamed up when a pack of strings only cost a used shoelace, but you kids don't want to hear an old man rambling on about the nineteen-aughts.
Henry Bianco demonstrates how to attain diverse tones on the Electro-Harmonix POG.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED]
HENRY BIANCO: Now that we know what the pedal pretty much does, let'st ake a look at some more advanced effects.
Okay, so now that we know what each of these sliders does, let's take a look at how they work with one another and get some sounds. Let's first start with the 12-string guitar type sound. I'm going to amp up the dry output to about 75%, maybe about 80%, and then I'm going to take the +1 Octave Detune. Now, if you just take the +1 Octave, it's a little bit lifeless, kind of just like a straight octave effect, but if you have the detune you get that real 12-string guitar type sound. I'm going to actually bump up the input a little bit just to juice it up a little bit and hear how it sound.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED, DRY SIGNAL BLENDED WITH +1 OCTAVE DETUNE]
So you get a good idea of that 12-string sound. Now let's make it a little bit more interesting and add the +2 Octave Detune. I'm going to keep it a little bit below the +1 Octave Detune just so it doesn't get overwhelming. I want to hear what this sounds like. Theoretically, it should sound like an 18 string guitar.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED, DRY SIGNAL BLENDED WITH +1 OCTAVE DETUNE AND +2 OCTAVE DETUNE]
So there's the 18-string guitar. Another thing that this pedal has become really well know for is its organ type sound. So let's bump up the dry output all the way, the Suboctave out all the way, the +1 Octave all the way. We'll keep the +1 Octave Detune around 75%, +2 Octaves maybe about 80%, and the +2 Octaves Detune we'll let's say at about 90%. I'm going to actually change this over the low pass filter mode 3, which gives it more of a pronounced sweep which actually I'll play for you right now. I'll start at the very bottom here. What you hear is just a bass signal. Now here I'm going to sweep it up for you.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED, PERFORMING FILTER SWEEP]
Sounds like the Flaming Lips, doesn't it? All right, let's hear what the chorus sounds like. I'm going to actually add a little overdrive too to the signal to give you that pretty cool Deep Purple type sound.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED, "ORGAN" SETTING]
Let's hear what it sounds like maybe a little bit cleaner. I'm going to take down that low pass filter a little bit to take some of the edge off. More of a mellower organ sound here.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED, DRY SIGNAL BLENDED WITH +1 OCTAVE DETUNE]
And now let's hear what the bass sound sounds like. This is a little bit more of a case by case with what particular guitar you're using. I brought my SG with P90's so I'm going to keep it in the neck position, roll off a little bit on the tone down here, and let's see what it sounds like. I like to kind of add a little bit of lower level amounts of each of the other effects. The Suboctave on its own can be a little bit bland so let's hear what this sounds like here.
[HENRY BIANCO PLAYING GUITAR WITH THE ELECTRO-HARMONIX POG ENGAGED]
This pedal, as you can probably hear, has become a favorite of Jack White and actually Nick Zinner also from the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs so you can probably hear a little bit of that in each of the sounds that I've played so far.




POG
well done, now I'm G.A.S.ing for a POG
Deep Purple sound cough* cough* :)
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