Re: Does this effect exist?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

You could simply call it "the freeze effect". The trick is not the
effect but how to route it related to the live signal. If using a
delay effect you should set it up to react to your momentary pedal
control by adding the wet signal to the live signal when pressed down.
When not pressed down there should be no volume and now feedback for
the effect's "wet" path, it should simply be bypassed.

When David Gilmore did this trick he froze chords and played solo over
it. Your approach to freeze one note and then back it up with chords
sounds more fun.

The VG-99 can do an awesome freeze controlled by the beam. Check out
YouTube demo's for that.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> 
wrote:
> I feel it would be useful to have a "freeze" effect that, while a 
>footswitch
> was held down, would seamlessly loop the previous n milliseconds of sound
> (with n probably between 150 and 400 or so). This is perhaps for a solo 
>jazz
> guitar context, but there certainly are other applications. So if i had a
> note that i was playing that I wanted to sustain while I drop in say, a
> couple of filler chords, i could hit the button and hold it down to do 
>this
> (and, obviously, the chords would *not* be input to the freeze 
>function). I
> don't know what you'd call this - "fingerless infinite sustain"? Anyway,
> maybe this is doable with one of the reverbs I have, or maybe there's 
>some
> kind of dedicated effect. any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Warren
>