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EarthQuaker Devices Tentacle Analog Octave Up Guitar Effects Pedal

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A throwback octave up pedal that'll expand your sound in many cool directions.

The Tentacle is a classic analog octave up effect. It is the very same octave from EarthQuaker Devices' Hoof Reaper pedal. The company got so many requests to make thi...

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Troy Van Leeuwen

Van Leeuwen using some Way Huge with QOTSA
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Juan Alderete

In this video showing some cool pedal tricks, Alderete uses the tentacle throughout, and explains how while he usually uses it at the front of his signal chain, but someone suggested to try it at the end, and he really liked how it sounded.
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Nick Reinhart

EarthQuakerDevices Tentacle at 0:59
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Will Swan

Will Swan posted a picture of his new pedals to Instagram with the caption "Are these enough new pedals?"
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Alain Johannes

You can see in the background, some of the alain pedals, The EQD Tentacle is one of them.
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Jacob Tilley

This pedal's name was found on his RJM Mastermind, and is suspected that he uses this pedal.
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Steve Gunn

"Now I use EarthQuaker Devices’ Palisades for that mostly, mixed with delay and wah. I’ve been trying different variations of this set up for a while now, not really adding but substituting effects with an occasional wild card thrown in for more noisy textures like the EarthQuaker Devices Tentacle for fuzz wah or a robotic feedback experiment."
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Emily Wolfe

> A core of Wolfe’s lead sound is an octave-up snarl– which comes from an EarthQuaker Devices Tentacle, running after the OCD.
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A throwback octave up pedal that'll expand your sound in many cool directions.

The Tentacle is a classic analog octave up effect. It is the very same octave from EarthQuaker Devices' Hoof Reaper pedal. The company got so many requests to make this a standalone unit that the Tentacle, with its excellent, swelling octave up abilities became a reality.

Pair the Tentacle with your favorite fuzz, strap on a headband and unleash your inner Jimi Hendrix. Put it in front of another octave up and blow your amp's mind. Throw it in the effects loop of a delay and marvel at what happens. What' better? It has no controls! Nothing to worry about at all here, just hit the switch and go for it. The Tentacle is an analog octave up, the effect will become much more pronounced when using your neck pickup and playing above the 12th fret.

5 Reviews

dlammey

156

Very usable

The octave becomes more apparent when you play higher notes or especially 12th fret or higher. This means you're able to play chords still and not have to turn it off to go from rhythm to lead. Now if you hit a chord hard you can hear it almost break up and do some cool, almost synth sounding stuff. Two note chords sound great with this especially root note and 4th together and do some tight percussive riffs. Naturally it's not a clean octave but that's the cool factor about it. I run it before my Fuzz Face and they are a match made in heaven.

Love this pedal.

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over 3 years ago
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ltpocock

131

Love it

its perfect.................................................

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4 months ago
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cellos_guitars_drums

94

Nice pedal

I really like this pedal because it gives the guitar a funky distortion and theirs no nobs so just one setting and it sounds brilliant.

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over 1 year ago
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nbaker1251

496

Simple but effective

Super simple due to knobs but extremely versatile, best before dirt pedals near octave effects.

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11 months ago
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joris_van_dorpe

144

Expensive

It's expensive for something that's basically a dan armstrong green ringer mod with a 15 dollar circuit, but I like the design and it does what it's supposed to properly

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over 3 years ago
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