lqdsnddist
Axe-Master
One downside of getting away from using hardware amps and real cabs (or I suppose an Axe-Fx with a power amp and loud guitar cabinet as well) is the lack of being able to generate cool, musical feedback. Now yes, I can get my guitar to feedback when I'm close enough to my Atomic CLR, but its kind of awkward given the wedge design, and it also requires it to be pretty darn loud. Louder than I really like in fact.
So, like many I'm sure, I was intrigued by the new Freqout pedal, which promised to produce musical sustain at the press of a button. Well, it does, sort of.....
See, its not true feedback, that is produced by a true acoustic interaction between guitar and speaker, but, what the pedal does is produce a sound that is near identical in terms of tone and onset, which is pretty cool, and honestly far more useful.
It won't sustain forever, but it does sustain for a pretty long time, about as long as you can keep a vibrato going. Its not like an Ebay by that account either, it doesn't produce sound on its own, but as the notes decay, they turn into a very musical feeback, of which you can control the onset and octave/harmonic
I patched it into my Axe II FX loop, and I use an external pedal controller to send a momentary signal to the pedal when I want the effect. This is essentially like using the momentary switch on the pedal itself, but without running the audio cables across the stage. Keeps everything in the box, AND, given I can control the curve of the activation, gives me a little extra tweakability.
I'm not going to post clips because there are already a ton on the net, and it sounds just like it does in the videos. Its honestly pretty legit and does what it says on the box.
Hit a big chord, let it ring for a few moments, then step on the pedal and as the tones decay it turns into a nice singing feedback. Really fun for doing Slayer style divebombs with the whammy bar too
Its a little pricey I admit, and its also not an effect your going to use for every song, but its fun to play with and it really goes a long way of reproducing that last part of playing a loud guitar amp. I feel with my Axe Fx I can get the tone and feel of a cranked amp, at any volume, which is awesome, but often I couldn't get feedback, especially at home. Now with this pedal patching into my rig I can have the sound, feel, and even feedback of a cranked 100 watt amp, but at any volume.
Worth checking out for sure. I think with the Axe routing it can even offer up so increased tonal options such as maybe combining it with the reverb and delay hold feature (could even active them both with the same ext controller) on a parallel routing from the main tone etc etc
Most of the time when I buy a hardware pedal, its cool for a few minutes and then I feel "I can do this sound in the Axe" and sell the pedal. The Freqout is the first pedal in a long time that I feel really produces a unique sound that can't otherwise be done in the box. I mean maybe, just maybe with some pitch shift, reverb hold etc someone like Simeon could come up with an effect that is close, but this one is just so simple and works beautifully.
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So, like many I'm sure, I was intrigued by the new Freqout pedal, which promised to produce musical sustain at the press of a button. Well, it does, sort of.....
See, its not true feedback, that is produced by a true acoustic interaction between guitar and speaker, but, what the pedal does is produce a sound that is near identical in terms of tone and onset, which is pretty cool, and honestly far more useful.
It won't sustain forever, but it does sustain for a pretty long time, about as long as you can keep a vibrato going. Its not like an Ebay by that account either, it doesn't produce sound on its own, but as the notes decay, they turn into a very musical feeback, of which you can control the onset and octave/harmonic
I patched it into my Axe II FX loop, and I use an external pedal controller to send a momentary signal to the pedal when I want the effect. This is essentially like using the momentary switch on the pedal itself, but without running the audio cables across the stage. Keeps everything in the box, AND, given I can control the curve of the activation, gives me a little extra tweakability.
I'm not going to post clips because there are already a ton on the net, and it sounds just like it does in the videos. Its honestly pretty legit and does what it says on the box.
Hit a big chord, let it ring for a few moments, then step on the pedal and as the tones decay it turns into a nice singing feedback. Really fun for doing Slayer style divebombs with the whammy bar too
Its a little pricey I admit, and its also not an effect your going to use for every song, but its fun to play with and it really goes a long way of reproducing that last part of playing a loud guitar amp. I feel with my Axe Fx I can get the tone and feel of a cranked amp, at any volume, which is awesome, but often I couldn't get feedback, especially at home. Now with this pedal patching into my rig I can have the sound, feel, and even feedback of a cranked 100 watt amp, but at any volume.
Worth checking out for sure. I think with the Axe routing it can even offer up so increased tonal options such as maybe combining it with the reverb and delay hold feature (could even active them both with the same ext controller) on a parallel routing from the main tone etc etc
Most of the time when I buy a hardware pedal, its cool for a few minutes and then I feel "I can do this sound in the Axe" and sell the pedal. The Freqout is the first pedal in a long time that I feel really produces a unique sound that can't otherwise be done in the box. I mean maybe, just maybe with some pitch shift, reverb hold etc someone like Simeon could come up with an effect that is close, but this one is just so simple and works beautifully.
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