Re: what does a slow gear do?
I built a Slow Gear sometime ago, it's a great little box.
It may seen simple but it takes some serious time to set it up right.
It's a volume swell just like when you use the volume pot on your guitar, if you use it with a delay pedal and spend sometime tweaking them you can sound like a whale, a dolphin, a violin a cello.
It's really cool.
General Guitar Gadgets has the schematic for it.
Not the kind of pedal I would use everytime, but it's great when you want to fool around discovering new sounds and enjoying yourself, if you can get your hands on a Volume Swell at a decent price be sure to at least try it out, just remember, it's NOT an easy to work with box, takes sometime to figure out how he works.