Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer Compression Guitar Effects Pedal

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The sustain!

This pedal does exactly what it says it does. Grabs what you're playing right then, and holds it until you tell it to stop. Infinite sustain without having to hug your amp or monitor, and no feedback to worry about. I'm using it for bass, so I can't really speak to how it handles heavily distorted guitar at the moment. Had it a week, and it works great. There's a bit of a learning curve on the timing if you want to avoid volume or pitch warbles (it's basically a very short sample looped until you stop it). Cons: -No battery option. Doesn't affect me, but I know it'll affect some people. -Also the foot switch has a hard click at the bottom, but it's serving a momentary switch's purpose. I would rather it feel like a momentary switch, but that's personal preference. -Pots to adjust the rise and fall time in the slow mode would be nifty also--the adjustment for those is a bit weird, and you can't do it without unplugging the power, and you only get 3 options. It's not true bypass, but that's a function of how it works. It would be a much more complicated circuit to do what it does and be true bypass, so I don't count that as a con. Simple is good.