Yeah the delay sounds amazing to, but that goes without saying. Most of the demos I have heard on youtube the hog sounds tinny and waaaay to digital…but maybe that’s just youtube…
Yeah, you’re right about those HOG demos…maybe it’s just a question of tweaking it enough – and I don’t know if all the various settings are really useful. But there’s at least a couple things on it that sound really good. I used it on a solo on the “Veldt” CD that worked well. And the low pass filter is really nice – in “Brutal Bed,” that’s what I’m tweaking at the beginning, and at the points in between the fuzz guitar/201 insanity.
I also saw an impressive demo of the POG 2. I don’t know if it’s different in some important way from the HOG, but it made me think that I haven’t exhausted all the HOG possibilities.
The POG2 main sonic difference is the detune function in my opinion, but the lack of an expression input and hold/gliss mode makes the HOG a keeper for me.
The HOG is filled with tinny thin harshness, but there are also many good tones in it, and lots of experimentation (as always) is key, as is the use of warm analog gear post-HOG.; I use the HOG’s voice and envelope section, but keep the filter wide open and use other analog filters/modulation/delay to great effect. With an MP201 you can cop some of the Pitchfactors modes as well, like the ‘Harmodulator’ for instance when using an s&h lfo into the exp input for instance.