The Electro-Harmonix POG3 is a $650 superpowered octave workstation
The original Electro-Harmonix POG has seen many variants – we have the flagship follow-up in the form of the POG 2, of course, as well as the Micro, Nano and Pico POGs. And now, EHX has launched the latest fully-fledged iteration of the polyphonic octave workstation – the POG3.
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The POG 3’s spec sheet is not messing about. The pedal comes in a new triple-footswitch enclosure, and boasts six controllable voices, three filter types, a bank of 100 preset voices, complete MIDI and expression pedal support, an app for deep-editing, a screen, illuminated sliders and three independently switchable outputs – left, right and direct.
Perhaps most intriguing in the POG3’s approach to stereo – each voice (dry, down 2 octaves, down 1 octave, up a fifth, up one octave and up two octaves) can be panned individually, allowing you to build a massive stereo image, and do any number of creative panning and routing things, like imitating a mic’d up pipe organ.
As EHX’s official demo makes clear, there’s not really a pitch-shifting task that the POG3 can’t do. Thanks to its polyphonic tracking it can even do pedal steel bends, and EHX claims that it’s also fast enough to handle drop-tuning a guitar for speedy metal chugging. With its stereo connectivity and the overall amount of power on offer, it seems primed to fit right into an ultra-modern high-end pedal setup.
All these features, however, do not come cheap. The POG3 has a listed street price of $645. It’s a price that now seems to be about the average for incredibly extensive workstation pedals such as the BigSky MX – but that’s a huge amount of cash for a pedal, and is notably $245 more than the POG2.
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