Electro Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer

Great for expanding crativity or just practicing over a chord

As a bass player who tries to explore different textures and ambients i find this pedal a great acquisition. Beeing in a instrumental rock/prog trio, It allows me to easily add another layer of textures and play over it, engaging and disengaging the effect whenever its needed. Also a great tool to practive scales or exploring melodies over chords.

Does a cool thing

Using this as a dirty sustain pedal for my honer, old honers don't have a sustain pedal. It gets the job done in a kind of trippy way.

DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE!

This pedal, and all my other Electro Harmonics pedals all died. None of my other pedals did. This entire company is to be avoided at all costs. Worst build quality ever!

excellent

EHX a désormais mis un switch souple et silencieux qui change tout en comparaison de l'ancienne version que j'avais testée.

Great pedal, for what it is

The only thing it's missing is a softer release, a dynamic sustain pedal.

Great pedal

perfect pedal. Only if they manufacture it with silent switch

Great pedal

Nice idea for a sort of sustain pedal. You have to learn to use it to avoid some sort of "glitch"/"latency" if you don't synchronize to the millisecond your foot and your hand (no big deal, you only have to get used to it). Yet, you still can use that strange sound in some manner (Bill Frisell loves it).

I have to say that the switch is a bit noisey and can be a little annoying in silent environments (studio work while tracking isolated parts).

I also have to mention the fact that the switch failed on me (I never abused it, of course), it broke and I had to bring it to a repairman to replace it.

Again: great pedal indeed

Life-Changer

This pedal is simply amazing. I bought it after listening to some of my favorite guitarists use it live. As simple as its concept seems, it opened a new road for me to travel in - the possibilities of tone over tone, chords over chords that this device permits are never ending for me. It went from being an experiment to an essential pedal in the blink of an eye.

Pros: Built to last, simple yet unlike any other pedal i ever tried

Cons: None

Fun little pedal

It does exactly what it sets out to do... Fun pedal to have. Try putting it in front of a pitch shifter in your chain and play it like a synth with the pitch shifting knob of the pitch shifter. Entertaining and useful for some out there experimentation when you are recording.

Where have you been all my life?

This pedal is great. It does one thing - sustain a sound - and just that is enough to open up a wealth of possibilities and solutions. I started using it in the on-off position but have taken to using Latch mode. In this mode it functions like a sustain pedal on a piano. It adds a little compression, too, so the sustained sound swells just a little - this gives the pedal a distinctive sound. I really love it.