Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer

About the Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer

The Electro-Harmonix Freeze is a sound-retainer pedal: step on it and it captures the note or chord you are playing and sustains it indefinitely, like a held pad, while you keep playing over the top. It offers fast, slow and latching modes for how the frozen sound comes in and holds, and it comes in a full-size and a compact version. It is a simple, one-job pedal aimed at instant infinite sustain.

In one paragraph

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Listings of the Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer we watched from listing to sale typically went in 27 days (23 watched), a steady; it sells for a median of €80 over the last 90 days across 44 recorded sales, with most examples landing between €75 and €90. New, it costs €133 at Thomann (read 16 October 2026), so a used one at the median saves about 40%. There are 118 listings live right now across Reverb, eBay Germany, from €88 asking, a median ask 68% over the sale median. Figures computed 19 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.

What owners have said elsewhere

Paraphrased from 30 discussion threads among 9 owners, 2024. No names, nothing quoted.

Owners like the Freeze for exactly what it does, one calls it a great pedal, others describe it as a fun box, and it even turns up as a Bill Frisell tool. The core use is obvious but powerful: freeze a chord and solo or practice scales over the held drone, or, as bass players do, hold a sustained pad to fill out the sound while you cover the rhythm during a lead. Owners fold it into ambient rigs and experiment with placement, running it after an octave pedal like a POG or ahead of a looper works well. Just know going in that it is a one-trick pedal, all it does is freeze and sustain, and at around a hundred pounds some owners weigh it against alternatives that add more, an EHX Superego, a TC Electronic Infinite, or a FreqOut for a more tweakable feedback-style sustain. For instant infinite sustain, though, it does the job simply and well.