![]() ![]() As for the glissando effect, that takes the pedal yet further into synth territory, but it has to be used with care if you want the results to sound musical. But the idea is that you add further processing via the effects loop: by patching in some delay and chorus, or perhaps a rotary speaker emulation, you can create much more impressive sounds. That said, there's no sensitivity control, so on a single-coil pickup instrument you do have to pick fairly hard.Īs with the Freeze pedal, the resulting sounds can sometimes seem a little bland and somewhat reverby. The best way to see what this box can do is simply to experiment using the three modes, and perhaps the most interesting is the Auto mode, simply because it responds to your playing. The decay in this mode is, again, governed by the Speed control In Auto mode, the Superego is triggered by your note attacks, so if you play a guitar hard enough, the freeze process will start afresh with every new note or chord you play. The Momentary mode creates the effect only for as long as you have your foot on the pedal, and in this mode the Speed control governs the attack and release envelope. The Latch mode provides infinite sustain, with the ability to add new sound layers using the footswitch. In addition to the input and output jacks, there's also an insert loop to allow you to process only the effect part of the sound using another processor of your choice. The four rotary controls adjust speed (Layer in Latch mode), glissando rate and the dry and effect levels. The Superego offers three freeze-type modes (Latch, Momentary and Auto), selected using a miniature toggle switch, plus a novel glissando or portamento effect. Instead, what you hear is a pad-like sustain based on the note or chord you were playing, which, once frozen, can be sustained indefinitely or allowed to fade gracefully. ![]() This is not to be confused with a conventional looper pedal - there are none of the sharp/granular artifacts of conventional looping. It's a complex process, but essentially whatever is in the reverb when you hit 'freeze'is looped within a modified reverb algorithm. ![]() Subjectively speaking, it combines the character of something synth-like with reverb to create a 'frozen sound'. Or is it only as you have demonstrated.going between one preset and another?įun fact, most, if not all guitar pedals with expression inputs will respond to cv.Electro-Harmonix' Superego effect is a spin-off from their Freeze pedal, which was itself derived from one of their 'infinite reverb' algorithms. In the official ehx video it sounded like if you hook up a foot switch you can save and cycle between presets. This one and its predecessor have been on my wish list for some time. I demo LFO and Envelope modulation.Thanks for the demo. I also go through the various multi effects in the Superego+, which are designed to help give texture to frozen sounds.įinally, it turns out the expression pedal input of the SuperEgo+ can also accept CV.! So I hooked it up to an analog synth to show that the effects can be modulated - quite a feat for a "guitar pedal". In the review I test the pedal with different sounds including guitar, piano and various synth waveforms. The SuperEgo+ adds more subtle control and multi-effects to the infinite freeze, layering and glissando capabilities of its predecessor. This is the third in the series started by the Freeze and followed by the Superego. I just uploaded a review of the newly released Superego+ pedal from Electro-Harmonix. ![]()
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