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gwEm

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Electro Harmonix 'Freeze' review
« on: March 11, 2014, 07:29:50 PM »
So I got myself a looper of sorts, I was planning to wait though this was an eBay bargain and I convinced myself I needed it.

If you've not heard of these, rather than looping a phrase or long passage of notes, what is looped is just the tone of an instance in time.

I've already decided in a 30 minute play that this is a really good pedal for jamming with and making a fuller sound as a single guitarist.

But there are some bad sides:

The looped tone has a surprisingly large amount of the low end sucked out of it. For me this is a shame as I was planning to use it mostly for bass. I think I've sort of been able to compensate for this on my bass big muff, but need to try it on a big rig to be sure.

The pedal does not take batteries, and the DC input puts an amount of noise on the line for other pedals to pick up. It's not a massive amount compared to many other digital pedals, but it is audible and needs an isolated power input really.

Overall I do like it, but I might yet move this pedal on - it depends how it sounds on a big rig.. I'm disappointed in the low end loss, but it might be workable.
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Re: Electro Harmonix 'Freeze' review
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2014, 07:37:19 PM »
In fact, does anyone know something better than the Freeze?
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