Long time EffectsBay friend, Ken, let me know about an interesting video that Premiere Guitar just put out that shows a sneak peek of what’s been happening at Electro-Harmonix. They have been busy working on a few new projects and are close to offering them to the public. The pedals are the Superego Synth Engine and the Crying Tone Wah.
The Superego Synth Engine is a like the Electro-Harmonix Freeze pedal but on steroids times 10. You can layer multiple frozen notes, set it to auto detect notes to freeze and has an interesting gliss feature. Also you can send the ‘frozen’ notes to an effects loop as well. Like I said, similar to the EHX Freeze pedal, but with much much more.
The Crying Tone Wah is their new take on the wah wah pedal. What’s different? No moving parts. No pots, no rack and pinion and no footswitch. Of course, I’m curious about how it works, they didn’t want to go into detail, but there must be some type of accelerometer or solenoid in there to detect the wah position. You will need to calibrate the unit (assign level and up position). Apparently, this will be a series of new styles of pedals for EHX.
I’m really curious how the Crying Tone will work, I definitely have some concerns with it. Personally, I like to put some weight on a wah and get a solid feel. Not sure if it’s going to move around on you. The cable also rocks with the pedal pedal motion, again not sure what type of impact that would have on the cables, I like my cables to never move besides my instrument cable.
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Overall, both pedals are very interesting. Love to hear your thoughts.. please comment below!
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12 years ago
Nice ideas, but I wish EHX would go back and look at recreating sought after pedals like the Rams Head Big Muff with orig components.Mr Cornell has done it with his fuzz pedal and the nkt275 remade transistors, and it sounds MUCH better than modern day Fuzz Faces ( Mr Cornell use to make them back in the day).
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12 years ago
They said that the wah pedal has no moving parts. THE ENTIRE THING IS ONE BIG MOVING PART.
I also don’t like how it twists the cables.
Seems like a pain to have to calibrate. All my pedals are autocalibrated, it’s called being on the floor.
I wonder how much it will move around while using it on stage. Will its fancy little rubber bottom slide around on hard wood stage floors (or my bedroom tile)?
One last gripe about the wah. It has been long known that WWxpression pedals take up too much space on pedalboards. With whatever magic technology they used for this wah, they couldn’t give it a smaller foot print?
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12 years ago
The superego will be a must have for anyone trying to create post/space/psychedelic sounds. I will definitely be purchasing one.
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The wah sounds like a good idea in theory however for the majority population of modern musicians who use pedalboards it has certain drawbacks. I’d like to see what EHX can do to create a base that one can Velcro to their board and set the pedal on without having to calibrate. It won’t sell like they anticipate otherwise.
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