The Electro-Harmonix Freeze is an Electro-Harmonix other pedal. Close alternatives include the Hologram Electronics Infinite Jets and the Mentha Works Monk Echo.
Electro-Harmonix Freeze
Electro-Harmonix · pedal
The Electro-Harmonix Freeze is a sound-retainer pedal that captures and infinitely sustains a note or chord as a held pad. Used by Bill Frisell and other ambient players, it lets a guitarist hold a drone while playing over it, creating layered, organ-like textures. It offers fast, slow and latch modes and suits experimental, ambient and post-rock contexts.
What stands out
“The community loves the Freeze for instantly holding a note or chord into an endless pad, enabling one-guitar layering and ambient drones”
— from the community notes
“The Electro-Harmonix Freeze is a sound-retainer pedal that captures and infinitely sustains a note or chord as a held pad”
— from the listing
“slow and latch modes and suits experimental”
— from the listing
“ambient and post-rock contexts”
— from the listing
“Drawbacks are its single-purpose nature and the static quality of the held sound, but for textural layering it is invaluable”
— from the reviews
- ambient
- drone
- freeze
- experimental
- layering
- post rock
- held sound
- captured sound
Genres the Electro-Harmonix Freeze is commonly used in
- Post-Rock
- Experimental
- Ambient
Alternatives
Hologram Electronics Infinite Jets
Hologram Electronics
61% similarityShared character: infinite sustain, ambient
Mentha Works Monk Echo
Mentha Works
58% similarityShared character: infinite sustain, ambient
Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer
Walrus Audio
58% similarityShared character: ambient
Chase Bliss Mood MKII
Chase Bliss Audio
52% similarityShared character: ambient
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Questions people ask
What are good alternatives to the Electro-Harmonix Freeze?+
The closest matches in character are the Hologram Electronics Infinite Jets, the Mentha Works Monk Echo, the Walrus Audio Qi Etherealizer.