Slowing down effect

[Owen]

I fancy being able to slow down a loop so that it sounds like someone has just turned the power off. Is there a pedal which will do this but without me dropping £300+ for a one off end of song thing?

 

LIke this, but not as spendy

 

[Owen]

You only need to watch until 0:17. 

[Owen]

You people are all in league with BIG FX and are forcing me to spend big money on boutique stuff. Shame on you. 

[Homatron]

I was going to suggest the Boss XS-100/XS-1 but then checked the price... similarly spendy as the above. 

 

I'd have to check but the EHX Mono Bass Synth might do something that fits the bill when paired with an expression pedal. 

[mcnach]

Would a Digitech Whammy work? Essentially the "dive bomb" setting, which you can control with the expression pedal.

[Owen]

On 20/01/2026 at 22:01, Homatron said:

I was going to suggest the Boss XS-100/XS-1 but then checked the price... similarly spendy as the above. 

 

I'd have to check but the EHX Mono Bass Synth might do something that fits the bill when paired with an expression pedal. 

Thanks. I shall hunt them all down. 

[Owen]

7 hours ago, mcnach said:

Would a Digitech Whammy work? Essentially the "dive bomb" setting, which you can control with the expression pedal.

I had wondered about that, but do not know if it would actually sloooowww ittttt doooooooooowwwwwwwwwwn or just pitch it dow. 

[LukeFRC]

artefakt can do that on the second fs ... 
It's a pretty awesome envelope filter if you could make use as that. 

It's also £300 and lots of editing on a computer to get the best out of it so it's got that going against it. 

[Homatron]

11 hours ago, Owen said:

Thanks. I shall hunt them all down. 

I just had a quick play with the EHX Bass Mono Synth but there wasn't really a slowing down effect in there.

 

Lots of menacing/sci-fi sounds possible once you get an expression pedal involved... should the need ever arise.

[Owen]

15 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

artefakt can do that on the second fs ... 
It's a pretty awesome envelope filter if you could make use as that. 

It's also £300 and lots of editing on a computer to get the best out of it so it's got that going against it. 

Ha! That will never happen. I just want hit a switch and hear the magic happen. I should probably have metioned that in the brief.

[LukeFRC]

I just messed around with my hx stomp... 
using expression to change the time of a delay on 100% with a time of 0.00s to something like 800ms kinda does it. issue is after 800ms it repeats the note

[Owen]

It was going so well

[Homatron]

Great thinking @LukeFRC! I wonder if an analog delay would do the job. Setting the feedback quite high and increasing delay time might get you most of the way there. I don't remember a note being repeated at the end when messing around with this in the past. 

[Homatron]

That'll be 5 minutes of my Friday evening accounted for then...