Re: Electro Harmonix Freeze - Sound Retainer

[Jeff Duke <jeffloops@gmail.com>]

I just realized while setting up for a Ninjam that my Digitech Timebender can do some pretty cool freeze/hold/play over it stuff. The only issue I guess is that you have to hold a pedal for about a sec before it freezes and holds what you just played. Then a quick tap and press and hold to change note/chord or whatever. I'll try to record something later for an example. 

J

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:52 PM, E Gross <slapbandjam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks, the FV-1 looks cool.
>
> I am on PC, maybe software-only would be better as a starting point, can you
> give a suggestion?

Many so called tape delay simulator plugins can do that. Just assign a
kick switch or expression pedal to its feedback parameter and trim the
values to make the freeze work. After trying many I have settled with
the software plugin for this is EchoBoy from SoundToys. There is also
the reverb plugin Eos that has an "Infinite" button that you can
assign to your foot pedal. But I can't recommend Eos because it gives
an audible click noise if going into or out of freeze mode as audio
passes through the plugin. Another reason I like EchoBoy better is
that it doesn't really freeze audio in the technical sense, it simple
keeps a loop at 99 percent feedback and from this comes that the
fidelity slowly degrades during "freeze time" and I like that effect a
lot. Oh, and of course you have to set up a signal routing to pass by
the EchoBoy during its "freeze time".

Best wishes