Octave - The Octave section of Captain Coconut is an exact reproduction of the Tycobrahe Octavia, which was a duplicate of the original British Octavia prototype. The circuit basically consists of a high gain fuzz stage with some high frequency roll off which feeds a balancing transformer. The outputs of the transformer, which are of opposite polarity feed a pair of germanium diodes. The cathodes of the diodes are joined together to form the output. This results in twice as many peaks as the input signal, which means twice the frequency. The combination of the fuzz circuit, the transformer and the germanium diodes results in an octave effect that is unlike any pitch shifter or octave divider. The effect is dynamic and has a character all it's own. If you're looking for the effect that Hendrix and Trower used, this is it.

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Drive: Go from flute-like octave tones to all-out hell fuzz.