Product Overview
The polyphonic SUPEREGO Synth Engine reinvents sample and hold, performs fluid glissandos and creates oscillator like, synthesizer effects. It can stack sounds or create infinite sustain, it even lets you tweak attack and decay, or use its effects loop to invent novel synth patches. Indulge your guilty pleasures!
Keyboard-like effects from your guitar
The Electro-Harmonix Superego uses a sample-and-hold circuit to grab a snippet of your guitar's signal, and sustains it to create a pad-like cloud of sound. If you're playing rhythm, the Superego can add depth to your arrangements that you'd normally only get with a keyboard player. When you play lead, you can create synthesizer-like tones that have a character all their own.
Three modes cover a wide range of uses
To get the most out of the Electro-Harmonix Superego you'll want to explore the three operation modes. Momentary mode means the effect is only active when you step on the footswitch, and returns to bypass operation when you lift your foot - it's perfect for sustaining the last note of your solo, for example. Latch mode sustains anything you play while holding down the footswitch like Momentary mode, but continues sustaining until you turn the effect back off - you can use this mode to "record" a layer of sound to play over. And finally there's Auto mode, which doesn't require you hold the footswitch to apply the effect - just play through the Superego, and it'll transform whatever you play into an entirely new sound.
Built-in effects loops
If you like the unique sound of the Electro-Harmonix Superego, then you'll love that it has a built-in effects loop. Use this to add yet another sonic dimension to your tone by adding a delay pedal, chorus effect, reverb, or other effect to the Superego's signal. Whatever effects you add to the Superego's effects loop will only process the wet signal of the Superego, which means you can create custom sound effects that wouldn't be possible with a single input and output.
Features:
- EHX SUPEREGO Synth Engine Pedal
- Auto mode captures and freezes notes and chords as you play
- Controllable glissando lets you "slide" between notes
- Sustain notes and chords infinitly
- Insert effects into the wet signal with the effects loop
- Latch mode with a layer feature to stacksounds
- 9 Volt power supply provided
- Inputs: 1 x Instrument, 1 x 1/4" (FX Loop Return)
- Outputs: 1 x 1/4", 1 x 1/4" (FX Loop Send)
- UPC: 683274011271
- MPN: SUPEREGO
About Electro-Harmonix:
Electro-Harmonix was founded in 1968 by a young New Yorker fresh out of Cornell University who combined his passions for music and business to create a niche in the nascent world of rock-n-roll. With a first product dubbed the LPB-1, short for Linear Power Booster, Mike Matthews helped usher in the age of overdrive. EHX's most iconic pedal, the Big Muff Pi distortion/sustainer, was introduced in 1969. Its sound and appeal are so powerful that it's been imitated and copied by almost every pedal company on the planet. Currently, Electro-Harmonix has a product line of well over 150 pedals ranging from the essential to the exotic. Along the way there have been many firsts. These include the Electric Mistress, the first low cost flanger; the Memory Man, the first analog delay; the 16 Second Delay, the first looper pedal; and the Instant Replay, the first low cost sampler. More recently products like the POG Polyphonic Octave Generator, the Freeze Sound Retainer and the "9" Series, i.e. B9, C9, Key9, Mel9 and Synth9 keyboard emulators, demonstrate that EHX's legacy of sonic innovation is unique. Electro-Harmonix brings players imaginative products that fan the flames of creativity at prices a working musician can afford.
