Octave Pedals - Before or After Overdrive?

All pedals used in this video linked below.
Today I set out to do a little comparison for myself. I had always assumed that octave / harmonizing / pitch shifting -type pedals should go at the beginning of the chain because they need to be able to track as well as possible but through a few YouTube videos and a friend, I realized I might have been wrong. Here I'm comparing a few different types of distortion pedals against octave pedals and you'll be able to hear for yourself what people are talking about.

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My thoughts?
I actually do enjoy the overdrive before the octave effects in a lot of situations. In most of the cases, the octave tone sounds more natural this way. There seems to be a trade off at some point though where you're trading tone for tracking ability. The OC-3's tracking gets worse and worse as you add in more distortion, however initially I think it sounds better with a bit of drive or compression in front. The EHX Nano POG's tracking holds up all the way until we get into heavy distortion and in every scenario to me sounds more natural with the overdrive before.
By nature, overdrive compresses the signal and excites harmonic content so the tracking issues make sense. Especially with the OC-3, sometimes the octave pedal can mistake these harmonics for the fundamental tone and it'll pitch shift those frequencies instead of what you're intending it for.

Hope you enjoy!

Pedals used in this demo:
Boss OC-3 Super Octave - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--BOSOC3
Electro Harmonix Nano POG - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--EHXNANOPOG
Electro Harmonix Pitchfork - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--EHXPITCHFORK
Xotic SP Compressor - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--XOTSPCOMPRESSOR
JHS Double Barrel - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--JHSDBV4
Fulltone OCD - https://amzn.to/3aV7e15
ProCo Rat2 - https://www.zzounds.com/a--3971116/item--PRCRAT2

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