Eventide H3000 | 5 Killer Tones

[@OlaEnglund]

Tone around 9:34 is just 🤌

[@LeonTodd]

Like dipping your ears in grease 👌

[@Its-Clayton]

ola you should get a h3000 they are so worth it

[@Steven-u5w]

The last sound absolutely melted my heart and colour palette thank you so awesomely for the wonderful inspiration 🙏 one of the pedals I've been looking at recently is MHX layers

[@Dejoblue]

One of if not your best demo ever! Fantastic tones and playing :)

[@U2WB]

WOW. The H3000 sounds superb, but your playing is other-worldly. Absolutely fantastic guitar work. Subscribed.

[@LeonTodd]

Wow, thanks!

[@U2WB]

@@LeonTodd I’d be interested to know what your signal chain is, and where the H3000 is in that path. The guitar tone is great, and I’m pretty sure that’s not completely from the Eventide - or am I mistaken ?

[@LeonTodd]

@@U2WB all the amp/cab sounds are from my Axe-Fx.

[@davidshankle7359]

I had one of these back in my first DSG album ashes to ashes. What a great piece of gear.

[@LeonTodd]

Bet that sounded huge with your rig!

[@edlib02169]

Nice! I just recently brought home an H-3000 from work. (We upgraded to a mixing board that has an H-3000 plugin, so the physical unit was taking up space we could use for other things.) I haven’t spent much time with it, but I do have it set up to take instrument level in and out now. It has the D/SE mod installed… but I think most of what you showed is still in there in the same locations.

[@LeonTodd]

Very nice! Absolutely classic units

[@michaeltoren]

Pure awesomeness.

[@LeonTodd]

That Detune 🔥

[@cainm8808]

Your studio is looking like a music store!

[@LeonTodd]

It's getting ridiculous isn't it. I need to move a few things on 🤣

[@adisolar]

Shhh.. don't let his missus see this

[@JTSC34370]

Good job as usual. I Know you are a mesa boogie lover...did you already test the V-twin Rackmounted ??? It Should be Amazing with the Eventide.

[@LeonTodd]

Never tried the v twin!

[@rmax5150]

My favorite presets?........ALL OFF THEM! Great demo my friend, well done!

[@LeonTodd]

This is the way

[@Simeon_Harris]

i used to have one of these before i upgraded to the eclipse. loved it. still sounds great today!

[@LeonTodd]

The eclipse definitely has some of that magic. Probably the best single space rack effects unit ever made.

[@Simeon_Harris]

@@LeonTodd i agree!

[@nicefish10]

Single rack space, smaller/different unit. Def not an upgrade though.

[@gitarman666]

Gotta chime in when I see “the box” pop up on YT with LT I love my kitchen sink upgraded black face yellow soft keys 4 digit serial # It was a G&R touring box one of 5 I bought it back in 2004 from Goliath stage sound after a South American tour With G&R being the last name act to use it So a little piece of history in my kit Still a great piece of tech from the ‘80s that contends with and often exceeds 21 century gear, great stuff, Leon

[@LeonTodd]

Treasure that piece of music history!

[@RockandRollRC]

In the modulated delay section, you almost played the opening to Bombers (can open bomb bays) on the Bill Ward album. That delay and thosevolume swells are darn close!

[@OwenVickersGuitar]

Great sounding unit! 😮

[@hotblackdesiato3451]

Hi Leon - I'm amazed the H3000D/SX I bought around '94 is still working. Too many great patches to mention but the 8 second reverb (patch 154) and Lush Life (patch 184) are fun to use. I've read that the later Eventide models don't sound quite as good as the H3000/3500 series due to changes in the AD/DA converters used - sometimes older is better! The only downside with the H3000 series is that the internal transformer wasn't spec'd correctly for regions using 50Hz mains power. The result is the transformer gives off a really loud mechanical hum. You don't hear it in the audio path but it's still annoying. I believe the only cure is to replace the transformer with a correctly spec'd toroidal one but you end up having to drill a hole in the top panel to fit a small nut used to hold the new transformer in place.

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah that transformer hum is part of the charm! I'll check those presets out!

[@gingataff]

Great example of Crystals on the opening of "She's evil but she's mine" on Lynch Mob's Wicked Sensation.

[@LeonTodd]

Oh of course that's crystals! Always wondered what that was

[@ivorharden]

Great song

[@staggs5034]

Love that album.

[@drockny]

Was the chord at 8:28 from Cemetery Gates, or a Floyd chord? "Heaven Above" sounded awesome with that tone. You guys should re-record some tracks with the heavy delay tone.

[@LeonTodd]

Definitely a Floyd vibe! I've mentioned to Troy that we should remix that song with outboard rack gear!

[@Dejoblue]

Joe Satriani's studio side of Time Machine is also an ode to the H300! Also, Eventide has a fantastic official H3000 plugin with all the complexity of the real thing; designing and connecting the algorithms and a ton of artist presets. It's the real deal.

[@LeonTodd]

Great excuse to go listen to that album!

[@billyknowdownside5026]

Great stuff as always, thanks! Q: Aside from Gate... how do you hide the picking and string noise? I don't hear any at all when you play.

[@LeonTodd]

There's some very subtle gating but otherwise it's just riding the guitar volume control.

[@TSBII]

Hmm, do you have these mocked up (like you do for other H3x presets) for the Axe-III on AxeChange by any chance? Thanks for the videos sire!

[@LeonTodd]

Not at the moment but I have all the blocks matched so I'll pull something together

[@jamarwright]

Killer video! Any chance you’d be willing to share your “5 Dual Delay B settings”? I’d like to recreate it using Eventide’s H3000 MKII plugin. It sounds like a Michael Thompson-esque Mod Factory inspired dual delay. I’d love to see an additional “Top 5 Killer Tones from the H3000”

[@LeonTodd]

I did a tutorial on mod factory here which should cover it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHy0pJSbYsune68si=rMbjXrPLr1vLDAvm

[@jamarwright]

@@LeonTodd - I watched it yesterday! 😂 I recreated the Modfactory 2 setting you showed there with the cross feedback into the pitch module. Sounded stellar. I’m guessing this is much the same but with filters added?

[@satarello]

amazing tones. I would like to buy this unit ...but is still expensive

[@theblacksquirrel.]

They are awesome units, I was lucky enough to get a H3000 ('87 yellow keys) way back when, the only downside is the time delay switching between patches, for live anyway. There was no internet back then and so my understanding of all the options and how to get the best of the unit was nil!

[@LeonTodd]

Very cool! I love the way those ones look

[@dreamsinmusic]

Hi Legend Leon! A question if you don't mind: why these days, with all the tech we have, racks and affordable racks are very very rare?

[@PatternRecognitionMusic]

Iconic.

[@peterharvin2775]

I'm struggling to come up with the right word for this. "Grease" is what we usually use, and that's fine, but it's somehow too coarse for the loveliness here. Even with filthy tones, there's some sort of anti-gravity effect going on. Truly great stuff.

[@TLG6669]

Based on your experience, what other product comes close to the 519 micro-pitch shift? It's a great sound!

[@LeonTodd]

Hardware - Fractal (I have free blocks that are matched to the classic detune presets) Software - Soundtoys microshift

[@Patrick-857]

Probably the Evantide pedals too. Pitchfactor, H9, and they have a small footprint dedicated micro pitch pedal too.

[@MarcelCoenenOfficial]

Most sounds I can easily do also on the Fractal Axe FX3 or FM9 ;)

[@LeonTodd]

Absolutely. Get my blocks library if you want recreations of these :)

[@mrGood-84]

You know, I just open your video and click on Like. No regrets ever!

[@ratt669]

Jodie Foster likes it a lot!

[@chadr2843]

Is this just hooked up through the effects loop of an amp?

[@nicefish10]

I own a DSP4000 and these units are all spectacular. can’t get that weight with a plug-in.

[@LeonTodd]

So girthy!

[@thinkingofvenice]

The 3000 series will always be a benchmark. Keeping them running is a must. 😂 I have a 3000-S, a 3000SE, and a GTR4000. I baby the 3k’s… They never travel and live very sheltered lives in my home. 😂

[@LeonTodd]

Same here. I'm treating this as a piece I'm simply acting as the caretaker for!

[@ShreddingFinn]

How do you feel these wet effects like verb stack up to Fractal?

[@nicefish10]

I currently own a Fractal and a DSP4000. I used to own the H3000 too. The Fractal is def good and compact, but there is something like a magical weight of the tone you get with any of the older Eventide rack gear. They are still used in high end studios all over the world for a reason. Just like the TC2290 delay, the PCM42, and the Z480L and 224.

[@LeonTodd]

I really want for nothing with the Axe-Fx. The h3k is just a great benchmark that's been used on so many classic albums and is just fun to fire up, but the Fractal let's me take those tones with me in a backpack.

[@nicefish10]

@@LeonTodd exactly my point.

[@ali-om4uv]

Not Bad😂, exept for the micropit h whi h you already did would the other sounds be possible on fm3?

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah crystals and the dual delays are pretty trivial to recreate.

[@charlesray-p1i]

what amp did u use for this demo?

[@LeonTodd]

Axe-Fx for all the amp/cab tones

[@piperdaniel]

Dude! Sounds amazing! Maybe you could check out the plugin sometime? Thanks!

[@LeonTodd]

I really need to

[@JonDeth]

My interest is greatly in the A/D-D/A converters and chipsets. Even old rack units still have a more liquidy and blanketing effect that modern floor modelers. I suspect it's largely to do with the converts more than the microcontrollers that do all the heavy lifting. Even a cheap and older rack unit seems to completely strip the noise floor away because you can hear the extreme isolation of your signal's bandwidth at the speaker side. That suggests to me it's the converters and something done differently with them compared to what is typical today.

[@LeonTodd]

I think it's more the analog I/O around the early converters and the engineering compromises/solutions used that gives some of these old units their character. Also excellent sound design in having really musical presets right out of the box.

[@AutopsySuiteable]

Can we match it with the axe fx iii?

[@LeonTodd]

Grab my blocks library!

[@mattcamacho5570]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@geezberry8889]

i think you've confirmed i'm not going crazy. my 231 is very glitchy like it skips. My 519 is glitch free. my h3000 aint broke after all!

[@LeonTodd]

Yep, that's just how those old algos work

[@geezberry8889]

@@LeonTodd how did evh record 316 without the glitches?

[@stevenmuller4077]

To much bla bla,...moore Sound please.

[@HubertCzerkawski-b4x]

While watching and listening to the entire video, I didn't hear any "blah blah" so I don't know what the problem is :)..

[@HubertCzerkawski-b4x]

While watching and listening to the entire video, I didn't hear any "blah blah" so I don't know what the problem is :)..

[@jeffreyp1855]

Hows about, Eventide H3000 tones on a budget? 🤣

[@LeonTodd]

Ooooh now there's a challenge!

[@jeffreyp1855]

@LeonTodd , those Eventides are waaay to pricey for me. After watching your awesome video, I checked out the prices on them. Some are as high as 8k. 🤢🤮