Now discontinued and accordingly expensive, the POG was originally the affordable, non-rack polyphonic octave pedal. Pitch-shifting units like the Whammy had been around for some time, although their sometimes erratic tracking and alien warble wasn’t suited for all players. Moreover, they weren’t polyphonic, meaning that you couldn’t play chords without getting a mashed, bitcrushed version out the other side.
Meanwhile, in the octaver camp, there had been analogue octavers, like the MXR Blue Box, around for decades, though digital units had the same issue as the Whammy - an artificial-sounding tone, monophonic-only operation, and often lacklustre tracking. Moreover, having more than one active harmony, was limited to rack gear.
A LESS ‘ARTIFICIAL’ SOUNDING PITCH SHIFTER THAN WHAT CAME BEFORE IT The POG blew all of this out of the water…
