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Hi there,

I use Live 8 along with an electric guitar and a mic to make dark ambient.

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of people using the Electro Harmonix Freeze stompbox and its big brother, the Superego. These are kind of like a piano sustain pedal for guitar. I'd like to duplicate these effects in Live. Does anyone have any idea how to do so?

I just have Live 8 Suite (no M4L), and I don't want to run any vst's.

Thanks!

~vrt

these are guitar pedals right?
i dont really get what you mean by duplicated the effects? do you mean duplicate the tracks? if that's the case you right click and select "duplicate"
if you are wanting to physically duplicate the guitar pedals, well, i don't think the technology exist yet on the consumer level.

wait a second..... i think what you mean to say is you want to "emulate" these guitar effects within live?
if that is what you want there really is no effect within live that does this. the only thing that may sustain notes is compression (wich it really doesn't sustain it, just makes it so you can still hear the guitar even though the drawn out note is getting quieter) and reverb you could use the freeze button on reverb and map it to a pedal or controller.

nathannn wrote:wait a second..... i think what you mean to say is you want to "emulate" these guitar effects within live?
if that is what you want there really is no effect within live that does this. the only thing that may sustain notes is compression (wich it really doesn't sustain it, just makes it so you can still hear the guitar even though the drawn out note is getting quieter) and reverb you could use the freeze button on reverb and map it to a pedal or controller.

Yep! I'd like to emulate these effects. I've been messing around with looper, with it set to record and overdub a very short loop. This approach sort of works, but it's not exactly what I'm after.

I'll look into the freeze button in reverb. That sounds promising. Thanks!

Any other ideas?

vrt wrote:

nathannn wrote:wait a second..... i think what you mean to say is you want to "emulate" these guitar effects within live?
if that is what you want there really is no effect within live that does this. the only thing that may sustain notes is compression (wich it really doesn't sustain it, just makes it so you can still hear the guitar even though the drawn out note is getting quieter) and reverb you could use the freeze button on reverb and map it to a pedal or controller.

Yep! I'd like to emulate these effects. I've been messing around with looper, with it set to record and overdub a very short loop. This approach sort of works, but it's not exactly what I'm after.

I'll look into the freeze button in reverb. That sounds promising. Thanks!

Any other ideas?

Freeze from the reverb + X grain delay

I've had good results with the freeze button in the reverb. However I found that it would recreate the exact same 'sustain pedal' type effect like the EHX freeze does. I made a chain that ran Gate1>>Reverb>>Gate2

When a footswitch is held down this midi maps :
The freeze button to turn on
Gate1 threshold to go high preventing more input/layering of sounds in the reverb
Gate2 to go low

Would be interested to hear what other people are doing with this effect.