Great for solo acoustic shows

This pedal really adds a different texture to the live guitar sound that removes the need for MIDI triggers. There’s no control over the tone and timing the for switch takes a little practice, but that’s manageable. Give us a deluxe version and I’ll be buying it straight away! However, this US such an incredible utility pedal that everyone should have one!

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Great for practice

I use this pedal mostly for practice--I would strum a chord that a guitar would play and then solo over it with my bass. The sound retention is great, and the fact that it's buffered bypass is ideal for having it at the end of my signal chain.

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Great effect!

But .. after a year regulator of the "Effect level" began to rustle, unfortunately ... and the pleasure from the pedal decreased. I have 8 pedals and only this one rustles. Also he capricious to the power supply. Too few tuning controls.

Not much fun on its own, but paired up....?

It only does one thing! It does it well though. It uses granular synthesis to freeze the spectral bins of whatever you've just played, and then it plays it back to you forever in latch mode. Initially I thought, 'that's nice...but how can I actually make use of it?'. The answer for me was to get some sort of looper. Then, using the Freeze pedal, it becomes possible to build up huge layers of synth guitar, note-by-note. I think EHX actually want you to do this; they probably envisioned that players would couple this with all sorts of other effects like modulations, delays and reverbs so that we could all do Brian Eno impersonations in our bedrooms. Which, it seems, is exactly what we're doing! Of course, it works just as well with synths etc.

Great fun, and pretty sounding pedal.

I've had the EHX Freeze for a couple of weeks now and I've loved it. I haven't messed around too much with the fast and slow settings as I've only been using it to sustain chords for the intros in songs and to use in conjunction with delay to make noise.

But what I have been using it for has been great. It's done exactly what I want it to and I'm keen to see how much more I can do with it

The Secret Weapon for Trios

One of my favorites. I bought it not entirely convinced. It's ideal for creating atmospheric cushions where uncomfortable voids are generated.

Little pricey, find a used one

Pricey pedal, but I found one used for $60 (Canadian). Great for creating a soundscape. I use it live and in the studio to fill the sound, and is great for practicing on your own to have something to play over. Also great for sustaining notes in a solo (if youre into that). Works best for my shoegaze-style playing, or ambient stuff

This Freeze will give you chills...bad pun intended.

I’ve had this pedal for sometime and I love it, it’s pretty useful in creating ambient drones and textures. This pedal is pretty straight forward and fun to use,

Unique effect

I really like Electro Harmonix pedals, their ideas are always interesting and they've been around as long as I've been playing. This pedal is unique as far as I know, it holds whatever you play into it for as long as you want, so its not the same as a sampler or looper pedal, it creates a new sound instead of a copy.

EHX Freeze

A cool concept, though im not sure how much longer it'l be on my board. I have yet to find a use for it live, and really just mess around with noodling over pedal notes.