Death By Audio Octave Clang v2

The Death By Audio Octave Clang isn’t a subtle pedal, and it doesn’t pretend to be.

Roll the gain back and you get a crisp, textured overdrive with real character. Push it and you get a more saturated wall-of-sound type fuzz.

There is massive amouts of gain available (to 39dB) of gain on tap here, which is a serious amount of headroom to work with.

The switchable octave side of things is where it gets interesting

It’s a fully analogue effect, built by taking two out-of-phase, half-wave rectified copies of your signal and smashing them back together. Play single notes and it tracks well, giving you a screaming, cutting lead sound an octave up.

Start playing chords, though, and the tracking falls apart on purpose.

The pedal mangles the more complex waveform into somthing more discordant

The Tone control does more work than a standard tilt EQ. Because it shapes the signal before it hits the fuzz circuit, moving it actually changes how the whole octave effect responds, not just the top-end sparkle.

This is a pedal built for people chasing “controlled chaos”.

Controls

• Volume: Master output volume.
• Gain: Controls the gain of the circuit and drives the leve or overdrive to fuzz effect
• Tone: The tone controls EQ sits before the gain circuitry, adjusting the spectrum that gets driven.
• Internal Bias: An internal pot can skew the bias, if required, which brings a rougher sound.
• Footswitches: Two footswitch either switch in the effect, with the second switching the octave

Key Features

• Massive gain
• Flexible pre-gain EQ
• True bypass
• Lifetime warranty
• Handmade in New York, USA

Power

9V DC centre-negative. 10mA current draw.

Watch Death By Audio Octave Clang In Action

What’s The Difference Between Octave Clang V1 & V2?

The Octave Clang was updated in 2024. These are the key difference from the 2009 original

• Footswitches:
  V1 had a single footswitch handling master bypass only. V2 adds a second footswitch that seperatley controls the octave circuit.
• Octave flexibility:
  On the original, the pseudo ring mod octave effect was baked in permanently, so switch the pedal on and it was there, end of. V2 makes it switchable.
• Control layout:
  V1 had its three knobs arranged horizontally. V2 stands them vertically instead and adds improved LED indicators.
• Gain range:
  V2’s gain is much higher to 39dB
• Volume control:
  V1’s volume sweep behaved in a fairly traditional way. V2 extends that range so it scales cleanly.
• Internal tweaks:
  V2 adds an internal bias trim pot, letting you deliberately misbias the transistors for gated, starved effects. Nothing like this on V1

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