Description
The EHX Superego Synth Engine takes the old sample-and-hold idea and rebuilds it into something far more musical. Rather than chopping audio into robotic slices, it captures whatever you’re playing — single notes or full chords — and holds them as long as you like, polyphonically, with the sustain never degrading. Run it near the front of your chain for the cleanest capture, or push overdrive and modulation into it for thicker, stranger textures.
Auto mode listens as you play and freezes notes on the fly, so you can build ambient beds or hold a chord while you solo over the top. The glissando control lets new frozen notes slide smoothly into pitch instead of snapping in abruptly, which is where the pedal starts to feel more like a synthesizer than a guitar effect. Attack and decay are both adjustable, giving you everything from soft pad-like swells to more percussive, gated freezes.
Latch mode adds a layering function so you can stack multiple frozen passages on top of each other, building drones or harmonic clusters that keep growing. There’s also a built-in effects loop, letting you insert modulation, delay, or filtering into just the wet/frozen signal — a great way to sculpt custom synth-style patches without disturbing your dry tone.
- Auto mode captures and freezes notes/chords as you play
- Controllable glissando for smooth pitch glides
- Polyphonic sustain, held for as long as needed
- Effects loop for processing the wet signal
- Latch mode with layering to stack sounds
- Power adapter included
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