Superego Polyphonic Synth Engine Pedal Review

My secret weapon

The original egx HOG (grandfather to the pog2) had a quirk where if you set the sliders perfectly, you could create this is harmonic noisy feedback that would still be in tune with what you were playing. I loved that feature, and it made it worth owning the $ pedal (which also took up the real estate of 8 normal size pedals). I never got into the freeze pedal because it seemed boring… read more in comparison, but this pedal gets me to almost the exact same tone as the HOG did. I've honestly never used the auto--I use it as an embellishment or to give more feeling, or sometimes just more noise in a song. It works especially well during any buildups in a song, taking things from whisper quiet to a wall of noise. it's the one thing I consistently get asked about after playing a show--everyone wants to know what I was using to get the sounds I do.

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Cool tool for soloing practice

Allows you to play a chord and sustain it indefinitely. Unlike structured backing tracks, you control when the chord changes and what it will be. I am sure there are other uses for this pedal, but I haven't had a chance to explore them yet.

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Awesome

When I first plugged into this pedal, I was underwhelmed. It is NOT a plug and play piece of gear. However, once I kept playing and adjusting the levels, the sounds got better and I began to like it asca result. Then I hooked my spare delay into the loop and, it came alive! Use the loop, it takes the unit to a whole new level. I have a nova repeater set to reverse mode and the vibrato… read more set pretty high, kill-dry on. The feature that took the most getting used to was the Auto mode, though. But again, stick with it and you will have an awesome expression tool on your hands. Also, I am not an ambiance guitar player by trade. I do not use this to achieve synth tones. The way I use this is to have a pseudo organ/keyboard in the background. As that, it shines for me.

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Very Unique Pedal

There is a copy of just about every effect. I don't know of anything that is like this pedal. To be able to play and sustain a chord and then play over it is probably specific to this pedal and could be an effect that sets you apart from other guitarist.

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Your Instrument's Third Eye

First of all, The reason I bought this pedal is that my pedal board needed a shoegazey, ambient sound. The numerous analog delays, some digital delays, reverb pedals, chorus and other modulation pedals, plus a bunch of pedal I made were not giving me the sound I wanted. But then magicaly, a week later new superego pedal came out on the electro-harmonix website. Once I heard it,… read more I was amazed that it would give me the sound in my head that I was looking for. So I spent some money and bought it. I have played with the electro-harmonix freeze pedal and loved it, but what made me want to spend the extra money was the extra features such as the Momentary, Latch, and Auto mode toggle switch, the Speed / Layer knob, the Gliss control, and what I find the coolest, is that the send and return jacks allow you to modify the wet signal with other pedals, making your options limitless. And you should experiment with other instruments through this pedal, like a synth, sampler, bass, yuke, or whatever has a 1/4" output. The only minor cons I would say this pedal has is one, it doesn't have true bypass but only because of the way the stomp switch works, such as in momentary mode where once your foot is off the pedal, the frozed signal starts to decay. But it would be nice if the put a second stomp switch that was a 3PDT so you could truely bypass the signal. The second con, which really doesn't matter to me at all but may matter to other people is that you can't put a 9v battery in it. But it comes with a 9.6v DC 200mA power supply, which is pretty much the standard for most guitar pedals. The two cons are so minor that I would still give the pedal five stars. There is no other pedal like this and it will add so many more options on your pedal board or synth setup . I pensonally love this pedal, and many of the guitarist who record at my studio love it too. Watch the videos and give the pedal a listen before you get it, but the videos can't even show you 1/100th of what you can do with this pedal.First of all, The reason I bought this pedal is that my pedal board needed a shoegaze, ambient sound. The numerous analog delays, some digital delays, reverb pedals, chorus and other modulation pedals, plus a bunch of pedal I made were not giving me the sound I wanted. But then a week later new superego pedal on the electro-harmonix website.

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