Electro Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer 5-stars Reviews

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.

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

perfect pedal. Only if they manufacture it with silent switch

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.

Great pedal to try out and explore.

Great but watch out for the sound changing

Excellent idea and excellent pedal, but be careful that the sound tends to alternate between louder and softer over the course of about 20 second intervals. I assume this is to do with the way the effect manipulates the sound, but it causes to sound to change slightly over time...

Cheapest way to sustain chords and notes - works very well.

Depending on your creativity this pedal could well become indispensable. I bought it to sustain mainly notes on bass while playing higher things up the neck. In reality I found it hard to implement in my set up, so have only kept it for practising over 'drones'. Even then, I haven't really explored its possibilities. The switch is definitely worth upgrading to a silent 'push to make' type, otherwise the constant clicking will drive you insane. It takes a bit of practise to learn when to press the switch after sounding notes / chords smoothly. So, while for me this hasn't really been a great purchase, for ambient music and creative types I can see its potential.

Excellent pedal

Excellent pedal for what it is. Good construction and sound. Great for creating atmosphere.

Nice and unique effect

This effect is very unique in kind what it does. I was using it extensively with my bass to produce all kinds of psychedelic sounds (just put phaser after it). However, I have only one complaint - in latch mode you have to stomp on it twice to turn da freeze off. I can understand, why it is done this way, however, sometimes it might be a problem - especially on stage.

It sustains any note or chord forever

You can play over the sustained notes creating beautifull harmonies

Infinite sustain

Clever little, simple pedal from EH - basically freezes the note

/ chord you play & either holds it for as long as you depress the switch or has a latch option. Great for ambient sounds, adding pedal notes, beefing up chord sounds & as a practise tool. Only dropped one star for the noisy footswitch - you'll want to mod it out with a silent one

Nifty effect

A nice-looking and delightful pedal, if a locking sustain (for just about any source of sound) is what you're looking for you have found it. These days it perhaps stands as a one-trick pony amidst various other options for sound retaining but it does its job admirably. It is suited for simple sustain for clean or effected sound and is also helpful for experiments in exploring wacky new textures of tone and noise - you might be surprised what latched "snapshots" of various sounds results in. In short: a simple and fun device.

Mind blowing!!

You can lose yourself in music for hours with this pedal!THe EHX freeze sound retainer is a pedal that I had seen many reviews,I had tried it one time and I knew that iwould have it on my pedalboard.From psychedelic rock to downtempo music is a pedal that has an atmospheric feeling.It's pretty easy to use with three levels of sound freeze.You choose what ever fits for you and play the guitar for hours!!

Totally recommended!Worths every euro!!

wonderful little effect - dynamic & creative!

Not a guitarist but this is great

This piece of equipment is a cool tool to have if you want fast sound design.

Pros:

Good sound quality

does exactly as advertised.

Cons

Wish it were stereo

A Cool Breeze

I use this for a Bass guitar and learn the modes of in jazz music.

It really have to build the sound up easily and understand the harmony better.

pros

Good for live and learning, build like a tank

cons

in these days, I think this can be replaced for an apps easily, for this price to buy one pedel with one function....think that for yourself.

From unobtrusive to radical, the Freeze is a gadget that rouses innovative playing without being gimmicky. The execution conceivable outcomes?from filling stripped space in a band game plan to in-your-face freakouts?are fascinating. Be that as it may, regardless of the possibility that you don't expect to record or play live with the Freeze, you'll discover it's an extraordinary device for forming music and amicability without anyone else's input. EHX has executed this impact with such straightforwardness', will undoubtedly speak to players and tweakers of all sorts and capacities

Top quality

Great effect for jazz guitar. I use it to play over changes for practice and also on gigs. A very nice things is that they have upgraded the latching footswitch with a momentary one and that is absolutely amazing. I am really excited with my new purchase.

A wonderful intuitive pedal that allows for infinite sustain.

Thats what this product is sold on and it doesn't disappoint.

So many of EHX pedal demos are aimed at dull guitar sounds but I use this for synth/electronics and its astounding what this pedal can do.

No volume drop or loss of clarity, just captures a sound and keeps it and you're able to create lovely volume swells using the one and only knob on the pedal. Its great in a feedback loop.

As ever with EHX, the switch itself is a little clunky and noisy which may be distracting for subtler effects but generally I think the pedal is incredible!

I've toured with this pedal extensively and its never let me down.