There’s an idea for a pedal- the phase canceler! Those would sell by the ton!

Liberty- I haven’t actually bought a pedal since last January myself. Last two purchases were Bass Big Muff and Tone Wicker.

I’ve bought some guitars and amps at flea markets, but I’ve mostly been buying records and DIY stuff. I certainly see the merits in playing with minimal effects, but I still want stuff. My board’s been disassembled for months. I really want to put it back together, but my amp’s in need of a retube and so I don’t feel motivated without my main amp working.

I am kind of interested in the Germanium Big Muff though. If I dig the tones that is. I’m just hoping that it is actually a muff when you take out all the extra bells and whistles under the hood, otherwise it’d be weird to have a Big Muff that isn’t really a Big Muff.

Well basically I’d like the Freeze to have its own effects line. So for example I’m playing a clean passage. I hit the freeze and the frozen notes have tremolo. But not the clean notes.

Typically this would be accomplished with a Y splitter (or simply a pedal with two outputs) and a mixer (or simply a multi-channel amp, which is what I use) so I’d have a dry audio path and a wet audio path. In the wet audio path would be the freeze, followed by whatever effects you’d want to have on it. The dry audio path would be dry.

It’s important though for this sort of set-up to run your effects 100% wet, because otherwise your wet path would have dry signal, and you don’t want your dry signal affected.

That’s actually how I run my HOG, so I can do that. The point in me wanting the Freezer is partially because the auto-decay function sounds really useful to me, and I’ve always wanted to run two HOGs in a row so I could have freeze and then use the other HOG to do filter and pitch sweeps of the frozen chord.

This is a nice way BTW to put effects on your delay if your delay doesn’t have an effects loop.

Phase cancellation is simply a way to get rid of unwanted sound by combining it with the same sound 180 degrees out of phase with it. There are phase cancelling headphones that play ambient sounds 180 degrees out of phase to get rid of them, but they don’t cancel out the music you’re listening to.