Bill’s awesomeness is not just that he’s a great guitar player, which he is, but that he knows how to use every effect to its maximum potential – how to find the SIGNATURE of each effect and really spotlight it. Amazing.

There is some seriously clever digital trickery going on there, but it’s not Freeze technology. It’s H.O.G. 2 technology. It’s a bit hard to test, but when you’re in POLY mode you can pluck the first note, wait a sec, pluck the second note and while it swells in you can bend the first note. Since you can bend the first note, it’s NOT frozen, but through some very clever dark arts majik previously only available in the H.O.G. 2, the Attack Decay keeps the multiple signals distinct. You can really tell there’s some trickery going on when you use both an ATTACK and a DECAY setting simultaneously in POLY mode, or when you use the Continuous Envelope in POLY mode.

I don’t know what’s going on there, but it’s very cool, and it actually feels more natural when you’re doing simple slow attacks or fast decays and nothing else.