Suitable for electric guitars, the Soul POG combines Electro-Harmonix’s Soul Food overdrive pedal with the Nano POG polyphonic octave generator into one multi-effect pedal, giving you distortion, octave generation, and various combinations thereof. The unit provides white knobs for the discrete Nano POG section and black knobs for the separate Soul Food section, making it clear which parameter affects which part of the pedal. Two footswitches are also provided, one to engage each circuit, with corresponding LEDs visibly announcing the engaged or disengaged state of the pedal.

Of course, you can run both sections of the unit at the same time. If you choose to do so, you’ll find the toggle switch in the center of the stompbox quite handy, as it changes the order of effects in the signal chain, putting one section before the other, arranged in a manner suitable to your needs.

The pedal utilizes an interesting routing scheme, giving you a mono 1/4' input and two 1/4' output jacks—one for dry signal, and one for processed signal. The effect output provides audio from the Soul POG, so you can separate your distorted/octavized sound and route it to its own destination point. The dry output, on the other hand, routes the buffered, bypassed input straight into to a destination of your choice, and will not be affected by the Dry knob.

Also provided is an effects loop, complete with 1/4” send and return jacks. Through this loop, you can put effects in the signal path between the Soul Food and Nano POG sections of the pedal, thereby increasing your sonic possibilities. Included with the pedal is an Electro-Harmonix 9.6DC-200BI power supply.