Electro-Harmonix POG3 begins shipping in November

November 1, 2024 · 4 sources

Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews said the company's POG3 Polyphonic Octave Generator began shipping in November, after a development period he put at four-and-a-half years. The pedal is the third generation of the POG line, which Electro-Harmonix first released in 2005¹.

The POG3 adds a +5th voice to the existing -2 OCT, -1 OCT, +1 OCT and +2 OCT voices, and raises preset capacity from eight to 100, according to GuitarPlayer. It has two preset footswitches for up and down, a 128x32 graphic OLED display, and illuminated side pots and buttons. Outputs are three 1/4-inch jacks (left, right, direct out) with pan controls for the octave voices on each side of the split signal. New modes include Warp, which drops or raises pitch to any note over a two-octave range, Freeze, and Gliss, carried over from the HOG. The control panel adds Input Gain and Master Volume, plus a Focus control for the +1 and +2 OCT modes and a Multimode Filter with Q and Envelope sweep. The pedal runs on a 9V power supply, replacing the 30V requirement of the POG2¹.

GuitarPlayer reported the POG3 available now at a retail price of $645¹. Electro-Harmonix's page for the earlier POG2 lists that pedal at $400.00, with eight presets, true bypass and a 9.6VDC-200mA adapter included². The POG2 was announced in June 2009³.

Matthews described the project in an interview with Guitar World:

He also said of the pedal: "That's our Polyphonic Octave Generator, and it's really sensational"⁴.