Polyphonic Infinite Sustain Pedal Options

[lunchmeat317]

Um, sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but I figured that this was a pretty good reason.

I was looking for some type of sustain effect for chords on my six-string, and found this - Invalid Link Removed

This looks like it's pretty much exactly what I'd be looking for. I don't know how it'd sound (the example with the Telecaster sounded particularly bad, but that might have just been the music and that guitar) but it seems like a safe bet.

Again, sorry to resurrect, but I hope that this helps someone in the future.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I don't know how it'd sound (the example with the Telecaster sounded particularly bad, but that might have just been the music and that guitar) but it seems like a safe bet.

I made a demo of it on bass a while back:

It's quite nice.

 

[gribuski]

I made a demo of it on bass a while back:

It's quite nice.

I stumbled on your demo and didn't know you were a TB'er.

The one I ordered from Map Ape got delivered Friday!
I think I'm gonna like it.


To the OP: if you go this route, there has been quite a run on these since they came out and they're availability is spotty. If you get one, try a few places before ordering one where you have to wait.

 

[JES]

Thanks for the reanimation. This is exactly what I was looking for. I will check it out.

 

[Spacelordmother]

Thanks for the reanimation. This is exactly what I was looking for. I will check it out.

I'd still love to see a video demo of the stuff you were doing with the timefreezer!

 

[JES]

It'll be a few weeks before I'm in any position to do a video demo, but here is an audio demo of an "exercise" I did right after I got it.

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The main instrument is piccolo bass. it's a bass but it sounds like a "treble." I'm sampling chords with Time Freezer FX, turning it on and off to capture different chords at different points to set a tone. You'll also hear some filter action, which is also Time Freezer. I'm not crazy about it as software filters go, but it gets the job done. The sleepy melody lines are running through a plug called Mega Delay Mass (in headphones there's some panning so you can tell).

Time Freezer is not yet fully Snow Leopard compatible. Marc just sent me a link to new versions of the plug as of today (yes, it really is a 1-person operation), but there are still some issues to be worked out. The recording was done in 10.5 where it works perfectly (I always wait forever to upgrade my OS for this reason).

In sum: Time Freezer is way more powerful and probably capable of much more beautiful things than the EHX pedal, but it's software. If the pedal stops working, it's either broken or needs a new battery.

 

[Spacelordmother]

It'll be a few weeks before I'm in any position to do a video demo, but here is an audio demo of an "exercise" I did right after I got it.

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The main instrument is piccolo bass. it's a bass but it sounds like a "treble." I'm sampling chords with Time Freezer FX, turning it on and off to capture different chords at different points to set a tone. You'll also hear some filter action, which is also Time Freezer. I'm not crazy about it as software filters go, but it gets the job done. The sleepy melody lines are running through a plug called Mega Delay Mass (in headphones there's some panning so you can tell).

Time Freezer is not yet fully Snow Leopard compatible. Marc just sent me a link to new versions of the plug as of today (yes, it really is a 1-person operation), but there are still some issues to be worked out. The recording was done in 10.5 where it works perfectly (I always wait forever to upgrade my OS for this reason).

In sum: Time Freezer is way more powerful and probably capable of much more beautiful things than the EHX pedal, but it's software. If the pedal stops working, it's either broken or needs a new battery.

That's awesome!

 

[JES]

Thanks. I should probably give it a name and call it a song.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

The low pass filters sound really cool in that song. Are those parts coming from taking bits of the feedback loops and running them through the filters, or are those just separate parts?

 

[JES]

I'll explain it as best I can. Despite my talk of Bidule above, I did this one in Ableton Live.

I set it up in the DAW with 3 tracks for balance but it's really just two parts.

Tracks 1 and 2 are the part that you hear at the beginning. Track one is clean and track 2 has TimeFreezer on it, which I'm turning on and off and messing around with the filter. I prefer separate tracks for TimeFreezer because I don't like how it handles wet/dry balance in its architecture (the filter affects both).

Track 3 starts out with the sleepy melody (it begins the song going through Mega Delay Mass, which is the delay/panning effect), but by the time I'm messing around with the filter I'm playing chords on this track so that the TimeFreezer effects aren't drawn from this performance. So you get clean chords over a drone.

You'd need two people to do it live, though with a couple footswitches you could move back and forth between the two parts and do a call and response thing which would sound slightly different. With a looper (which Live has) you could even have a chord progression, TimeFreezer drones and counterpoint.

It's funny you like the filtering stuff, as that's the part of the plug's sound I'm least happy with. In software, I strongly prefer SoundToys Filter Freak though filters are one place where I do think hardware has an edge over software (in general, I'm nonideological about the hardware vs. software -- it's whatever works for the musician and the music). In general, I prefer plugs that do one thing well and then to stack them up, rather than all-purpose plugins -- I guess I think of software like a modular setup or a pedalboard.