I’ve been playing with my freeze for a while now and while I love it, it can be a little cumbersome to use to its full potential. I would love to see this in an expression pedal where the rocker adjusted the effect level dial up and down so I could swell in and out. I would have the switch reversed and have it become active on release as you move the pedal from the heel to the toe position. For a quick freeze just a tap of the toe on the front of the unit. If I was more mechanically inclined, I’d try to build it myself.

Got to play around with my new Freeze toy tonight. Wow! For the first few minutes I was very confused as to how I would get this in to our songs but then I worked out how to latch a sound properly and it is quite incredible.

I started playing it like another instrument. If you work really hard latching and unlatching your sound you can get some incredible results. Its amazing how much your tone changes from second to second and if you can work out when to capture those tonal changes, you can get some really inspiring sounds out of this pedal.

I then chucked my Big Muff Pi Bass pedal in front of the Freeze. I played a distorted chord then latched, turned the big muff off and then could solo with my clean sound over the top. Really nice stuff.

I do have a few niggles though. I would have put two switches on the pedal because I would use it so much in a song I need to switch back and forth between latch and the fast slow way of capturing. Double tapping is really tricky and in some instances I do it by mistake because I am latching so quickly.

The other thing is that my foot keeps hitting the effect level knob and turning it down during a song. I tried only using the very tip of my toe but I still managed to turn the nob down some how.

That said, this is one of the most inspiring pedals I have ever used.