Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer

[TinyBlackCat]

Just got this pedal from Blackwood guitars today. Wanted to get the Germanium Big Muff initially but didn't like its sound in the end. Ended up with this.

Anyone tried this pedal? Didn't have much time today so only managed to play with it for a short while. Seems like lots of things can be done with the pedal. Was thinking of playing chords and freezing them while soloing over them. Or do octaves with it.

Kind of like pedals which i can manually control while playing the guitar rather than those that just step once to switch it on or off.

 

[j_m_s]

mega cool pedal. do want! care to share how much it was?

 

[carboxymoron]

I think to make things more interesting you should have a stereo or line split setup. For example split your guitar signal to two channels, one side with usual drive, delay, and mod, the other side with the Freeze, octave, and other modulation, so you can layer distinct sounds rather than different notes of the same sound.
Other things to try is putting it before a pitch shifter, before or after tremolo, in the effects loop of a delay... There's a lot more to the Freeze than just holding a chord and playing over it. But probably more applicable to experimental genres.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

heh, nowadays no much people mentioned bout feedback looper, if wanna more noise and sound based manipulation from geetar, on top of what bro carboxy has mentioned, throw a feedback looper in there somewhere, i can confirmed, will be lost in time and sound all over..

or even throw into effect loop of any delay having its own effect loop, it should be fun

Pedals like this can prolly do lotsa stuff, its up to the imagination of the one using and knowing which category of effect to mix with. As long not for proper geetar playing, hehe, basically there is very little limit of what can be done, imho.

 

[edgie]

Guys, you think I used it wrongly when I tried at TYMC, the fundamental notes are the only one being sustained and not the effected signal in all of its modes? I tried running a subdecay proteus before it but the arpeggiator didn't carry over. I was expecting it to be some kind of a mini-looper.

 

[carboxymoron]

It captures only a split second and tries to smoothen the transition to give a continuous loop. It's not even one or two seconds looping. So most modulation will not appear to be captured, except for extremely fast tremolo, slides etc.

But it does capture whatever is going in (i.e. wet/effected signal)... there's no way it can pick out just the dry signal from your guitar if there are effects before the Freeze.

 

[edgie]

I see now. Thanks. Shredcow also told me that it's actually some sort of a glorified boss dd-3's hold function.: )

 

[TinyBlackCat]

The thing cost me $175 after 10% discount from Blackwood. Heard from them it's selling quite fast... Comes with its own 9V adaptor cos it needs 140mA and doesn't take batteries.

Mainly, the pedal just freezes whatever notes are ringing at the press of the button. I just tried to freeze slides. Possible to get a certain special sound. It might be good for making sound effects for horror movies. But overall still messing around with the pedal.

 

[wck]

ohhh...now i get why it didnt get the proteus when edgie tried it. thanks for the info.