EVENTIDE H3000 playthrough

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

"...the _least_ amount of music from the _most_ amount of gear!" Hilarious! I'm sure that Keith laughed out loud at that take on his channel! :D

[@ericcarpenter3263]

That was so funny. I really hope Keith sees it, I’m sure he would laugh like crazy.

[@error8418]

That describes my guitar "playing" so perfectly. 😂

[@chandlerclement1365]

Gold. I immediately hit the like button after hearing that.

[@russellzauner]

most amount of copyright strikes from the least amount of gear lol

[@michaeltaylors2456]

You have no idea how much I appreciate both of you guys. Is that wrong ? I don’t care. What I really want is the most options in the smallest and lightest package 😉

[@LeonTodd]

Best. Intro. Ever.

[@mdeerocks6792]

My god, I always wanted this. Always. Unobtainable. Passion and Warfare sound.

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

Well, the plugin version isn't prohibitively expensive @ $350 USD

[@italoop7850]

@@vaughanmacegan4012 But it's nowhere close to the hardware. Most algorithms are missing and tone isn't...ehm... there!

[@davidyergensen4509]

I've got an Eventide H3000 SE. It has the Steve Vai mod and the Mod Factory mod and the Loop Factory mod. Other Eventide platforms are good, but they just don't sound as good as the H3000 platform (to me).

[@machinelanguage5108]

@@vaughanmacegan4012 dude, it's become a fetishist thing and an object for collectors and dealers. To be honest there are a ton of rack effects units from the late 80s and Early 90s that have comparable FX and which are still cheap as hell.

[@machinelanguage5108]

@@italoop7850 you can get great tones from the plugin if you know how to use it. If you are just messing with presets and don't know how to get good sound out of your DAW, then yeah, it's pretty meh. I think the plugin is amazing. You have much more immediate control than with the box. The H3000 is great and it's legendary, but it's become too much of a fetishist collectors item. People buy them to display in their rack and never use them. Prices are ridiculous. These things used to sell for a few hundred bucks a few years ago. Definitely NOT WORTH $3000 In my opinion.

[@craig9802]

7 seconds in, like button clicked, chuckling like a chucklehead. Happy Saturday. :) Digging the shout-out to 5 Watt World. Wearing my 5WW shirt today. Plus, so many "big rack" references today...

[@mortonwilson795]

That was fun, thanks! I still have the H3000 SE in the studio alongside my Roland Dimension D and a couple of old single rack Lexicons - some stuff you just can't let go no matter what super duper plug-ins turn up 😀

[@johnpierson8398]

A while back I left you a comment that since you are making these awesome 1980's rack effects videos, you should make a video of the Eventide H3000 D/SE Ultra Harmonizer. I am super excited to see that you have made a video on this! And I haven't even watched this yet! I bought this exact model new when it came out. The only way I am going to let this go is when it is pried from my cold dead fingers! Thank you Micheal! Your channel is mythical!

[@MarkPritchardGuitar]

What an awesome sounding box. Michael this is right up your alley.

[@cmath8577]

The geniuses behind the H-3000 went on to form Soundtoys who make EchoBoy and Primal Tap and Crystalizer.

[@TechMetalRules]

Soundtoys is great! I didn't realize it was the same people... that makes a ton of sense.

[@terryhayes7854]

I used to work in Radio and we used this in our production studio for commercials. This is the first time I have heard it on it's own and not on an album. Great demo that brings me back in time to my crazy Radio days. Peace, Love and Music ★♫☮Doc★♫☮🎸

[@noizewriter3324]

For such an Iconic piece of gear there's isn't much in the way of videos about it especially guitar wise. Mostly just synth videos or some guy playing a loop through it running through all the presets with no flux to the playing or sounds. So this videos is amazing and I love that all the sounds that makes your faces cringe with horror are all the sounds that I loved haha!

[@ibanezleftyclub]

I saw the title and was like “ohhh Shhhhhhhhiiii” , this along with the 2290 were always like god status to me as a kid

[@karlsalocks]

Best KZbin gear channel

[@acepaul407]

I had one of these back in the day. My rack wasn't too complicated but it did quite a bit: Yamaha Rev 7, which was on all the time, TC 2290 and the Eventide, then the switcher, line mixer and foot controller and that was about it.

[@ianfurqueron5850]

That was so fun. Mental image of Leon shaking his fist, "Nielsen!!!!!"

[@nigelnunes]

Man, the H3000 literally sounds like albums!

[@joed3483]

Eventide is the gold standard for live vocals. Eventide units that are on timed triggers and mixed with MR are the heart of every pro concert live vocal. It is usually used “transparently” to thicken singers’ voices for choruses, add reverb / delay and there is usually some added pitch correction. It is often used with sidechained MR (sometimes prerecorded at the venue during soundcheck) fed into the same FX chain to provide a super consistent experience. (Most people these days just MR their way through the chorus because they are dancing or not reliable/good singers with pop music these days being even more of a modeling business than a music business). Despite being used in the live show vocal rack for years, Luke Steel from Empire of the Sun was someone who really made it more famous for singers by using it way more obviously and more like an FX pedal. By having a second microphone he switched to instead of relying on a fixed time based trigger system ... he would show off his fancy Eventide. The new 9000 is beyond amazing, so powerful and only slightly less complicated than a warp core of a starship. The Base unit for the 9000 starts at 7k USD, so it is still not an accessible device for your average garage band, but big name tours will usually have at least one of these (usually two or more) and you will see eventide at big studios.

[@infinitybrian]

Cool demo! Love my H3000 /DSE. My first impression when i got the H3000 is that even it is a digital unit, but it sounds very warm and has that analog kind of feel... :D

[@marmaladecream2233]

Oh man, such a cool box. So many of my favorite 90s records talk about using the H3000. Smashing Pumpkins, etc. I remember just a few years ago these were going for about $1k, sometimes $800. I should have bought one then!

[@staticfuzzzz]

Pumpkins! Billy is why I'm here!

[@livefromstudioa8245]

I would like to apologize in advance to my wife and kids for how many times I come back to this video and watch. Every. Single. Patch. I’m not gonna lie, it’s gonna be rough. I thought I was going to make it out alive until Symphonic Chorus. Then... SEVERE GAS ENGAGE. Thank you for this video. Especially for your playing which is just perfect and highlights each patch as the good lord intended. So great.

[@BigMateo24]

I live out my ultimate tone fantasies vicariously through your videos.

[@atomkraftstudios]

Most honest intro for 2021. Love your work!

[@MaroenFranse]

I used to have one in the early nineties,. Now you made me miss it. The Heaven preset is great as well! Passion & Warfare sounds all over this box

[@carlloftin2850]

Loved the Eddie sounds - the sound that would fit my playing was Dense Room

[@yaverodriguez5567]

OMG! 95% of the presets sounds beautiful

[@GonzaCordo]

You killed me with this!!!...My GAS is at the roof now!!!..Cheers Man!

[@Tibbon]

I like the imperfections on the earlier Eventide units. Some of the coolest sounds I ever got were out of a pair of halfway working 910's that were incredibly unpredictable and glitchy. They did things that nothing I've ever heard since did.

[@Kohntarkosz]

That's the funny thing about early electronic music gear: a lot of times, they did things they weren't supposed to do, but that's what you used them for. I mean early guitar amps weren't designed to create overdriven tones, they were supposed to give you as clean a tone as possible, because that's what the jazz and country guys were using. But when you wound the gain up, or you put a guitar that had more powerful pickups than the amp was designed for (e.g. putting a Gibson Les Paul through a Fender amp), you got this glorious tone that was perfect for blues and rock. Same thing with early synths, you could overload the signal inputs and get distortion that wasn't meant to be there, or you had circuits that did glitchy things that produced marvelous results. And then as the technology improved, they were able to engineer out all those glitches and you're left thinking, "But the glitches were what made it special!".

[@squirelova1815]

@@Kohntarkosz Exactly. "Weird Science" just with musical gear.

[@Kohntarkosz]

@@squirelova1815 The first distortion pedal was based on a circuit that was designed to emulate a malfunctioning mixing console preamp, at a studio in Nashville.

[@Peter_Stoops]

Bear in mind it was designed to live on an insert on a mixing console (on a send track), hence the xlr in and out....some of the patches were never meant to be 100% wet....

[@truescotsman4103]

I remember seeing Lukather's rack and laughing. Now I'm in awe. I had a vintage Marshall, a TS-10, and a DD3. Now I run 3 delays 3 overdrives clean boost 2 choruses 3 reverbs etc. Luke would be proud of my rig!!

[@47279J]

That is an incredible machine. It does things I don't understand how they are possible. And the best part is, back when this was made, computing power was nothing like it is now. The computers were like Jurassic period stuff... and yet they accomplished this.

[@jlawishere6685]

Went to see Trevor Horn at Sarm in Notting Hill and he had about 8, just in the main studio. Mutt Lange used one on basically everything since 88ish.

[@eyesofobsidian]

Great video! Trent Reznor had this unit while he was recording The Downward Spiral. It was used on the song 'Closer'.

[@FirestormAudio]

I don't care how dated they are. I want a refrigerator rack with all of these units!

[@merlin5420]

It’s a timeless unit! 👍🏼

[@davidyergensen4509]

The Crystal Echo patch is what George Lynch used on the intro to "She's So Evil" on the first Lynch Mob album. such a cool patch.

[@TechMetalRules]

You turned that "Reverb Factory" preset down just the perfect amount... insanely good sounding!

[@rodrigobelinchon2982]

very interesting demo , thank you Michael

[@jasonsapp792]

Takes true talent to make all of these sounds sound "musical" ....I mean we know there are many that are based in "normal" parameters but those handful of "out there" patches that people like Via can take the listener to someplace not even considered....amazing gear

[@my_tube9405]

OMG. Haha. At around 4:18 you are showing the Diatonic Shift and then start talking about latency. Well, the audio is still going but the video stops. So I thought you had done it on purpose as a joke. Then I rewound the video a little and nope. KZbin just accidentally trolled me. I would have only thought that because you do so many great edits. So thanks for being good at what you do.

[@jakubturkowski8298]

RIP AOD JEFF HANNEMAN who used to use one of the h 3000's series through the years of his legacy. I thought that this should be mensioned

[@Skoora]

It’s like seeing the faceplate of a 2290 and feeling warmer inside..lol Or the controller for a Lexicon 224 reverb.

[@adam872]

Yes, I totally identify with that

[@pharaohhowell9915]

When I was a kid, I used to harass the Eventide’s guys to send me the big trifold leaflet info packet and I’d cut out the pic and stick it on my rack above my crappy ART unit. 🤣 as an adult I finally have them. My 3000-S still works but the soft keys are definitely wearing. My 3000SE is still going strong and I favor my GTR4000 the most. Still use it today! Love these things... also use their Pitch Factor on my main board too...

[@iwilrage]

Man I love this channel! When and why I started playing! Brought back my passion...I have hundreds 9f my guitar mags still....this was like the ultimate rack that only Rockstars had! Is there anything that is close to this ?

[@dadude7]

First 5 mins with that thing sounded like outtakes from Passion & Warfare 😂😂

[@twat75]

I have based my entire time as a guitar player around the least amount of music from the most amount of gear. Bless you sir.

[@rockostiffredi4276]

34 year old technology, 16 bit DSP and still highly regarded. Many still prefer this to the new H9000. The one's that made me drool most were 11:57 Dense Room 22:52 Room of Doom which reminds me of the theme song from the movie "Top Gun". As usual, most Factory Presets always sound too wet for me, but totally appreciate the amazing effort, even though your gloating about beating my fellow Aussie mate Leon to the pole position.

[@StirfriedGerman]

I used H3000 mostly on male vocals in the mix, wonderful box indeed.

[@pcbullets8726]

Some sweet sounds out of that beast and some interesting tones as well. Pretty much sums up the 80's!

[@lukather1]

How does this sound vs soundtoys h3000 version for us humans who can’t afford one of these original racks

[@BigHairyGuitars]

The Eventide H3000 Factory plugin is the closest, but Soundtoys sounds great too

[@adir_i]

I am totally with you with the intro! (nice homage to 5Ww) :)

[@betelgeuse9038]

"Chorus Slap" + crunchy sound = Alex Lifeson!

[@TrevPagesPlace]

It's a amazing that what took an expensive cool piece of equipment in 1997 can be done with a $35 app (Mainstage) on a laptop these days. Just goes to show how far technology has changed

[@marcoangelomusic]

Great demo

[@johnstitt2615]

I dig your Overloud rig packs and the show. 👌✌️🎸

[@bigdavedave9865]

I’ll suffer the latency when it sounds like this, it’s amazing! Plug ins? Pah!!

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Yes, exquisite!

[@eric_casper5150]

Loved the Chorus slap!!!

[@carlossalazar4508]

Haha silly! Nice take on the 5 watt world!!!

[@roberttodd2414]

lol thumbs up for the top gun tribute at the end

[@Mrchow19721]

Best rack in the world. Bought mine for 4k and still use it to this day.

[@MarshallGTV]

I love the tag line Mike! Now put it on a T-shirt! 2 sided, BHG logo small on front right pocket, and big on the bag with the saying! 😁

[@michaelberry530]

Love the opening line, hilarious!!

[@kosmokramer5420]

Jim Martin from Faith No More used one too

[@henrymcardle]

4:58 that is perfect song to play for that preset. Nice.

[@ethelwaldo]

I wish I could like this more than once.

[@calimusic2007]

Great demo Michael! Might have to add one to the home studio.

[@mykllynyrd]

First Ben Eller does a Rhett Schull reach at the camera transition, and now Michael calls out Leon. It's like all my friends know each other

[@ComradeMarx1017]

Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins also used this for "Soma" off Siamese Dream. That's how versatile this unit is.

[@free_electron]

The Chorus Slap effect sounded like what Eddie used on the intro to the song Runaround

[@SnootyWimbledon]

3:55 I need that sound in my rig. It's so usable.

[@nathanielsimmons4369]

Great video

[@emilytvmusic]

dude what is that midi desk it’s cool

[@ReeseChown]

"Reverse shift" is the sound used on "Starla" by the Smashing Pumpkins

[@michaeldawson3075]

Hey Michael! Could you recommend a resource for learning the basics of using rack gear like this? Like what all do you need to get up and playing if you get a cheap rack preamp?

[@BigHairyGuitars]

There's some good Facebook groups, like "huge racks", and that sorta thing. It takes a lot of digging

[@michaeldawson3075]

@@BigHairyGuitars awesome! Thanks man!

[@italoop7850]

Just to give folks an idea of a different definition of multi-fx the H3000 represents... There are 11 algorithms you can use for chorus and none of them is named "chorus"! They all sound fantastic. 17 different algorithms can be used for delays! Reverb? 9 algorithms and most of them are unknown to be able to do that.

[@shayneoneill1506]

Have you seen rthe specs on the new H9000? That thing is a goddamn collossus. You could get lost in that things settings for *years* (And you pay for it. Its $10K worth of effect rack)

[@italoop7850]

@@shayneoneill1506 And yet there are MANY H3000 things that the H9000 can't do at all!

[@Fallingoverbackwards]

I dreamed of owning one in the 80s... still dreaming

[@DrewCreal]

Guys in the 80s: "Hey bro, CHECK OUT MY RACK!!!"

[@zombiemosher1139]

Cool unit, I'll probably never own one but I do have the Digitech DHP33 which is often referred to as the poor man's version but was also used by Via I believe.

[@jimmyjames7720]

Perfect tag line in your opener.

[@slappywag7210]

I had one of these back in the day. $2000 I had a rocktron intellifex that I picked up used for less than 500 that sounded just as good and didn’t require a old phone book sized manual🤣

[@GuitarwoodStudio]

Could you explain didactically the signal chain? how did you connect everything? Thanks

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Basically, the guitar is recorded in, but the Eventide is then applied to the guitar (in real time) by going out then back into the audio interface. Similar concept of sending audio to a mixing console.

[@droliver]

OMG that sounds so bad now! It's like watching an old movie or playing an old video game from your youth and realizing it was so primative

[@nathanhuffines]

I owned an eclipse. Dropped 2k n realized i had no use for it. Would like to try the h3000 or the gtr 4000. Cool machines though.

[@hollywoodjakespeed8354]

The diatonic harmonizer still sounds "plastic-y". But the chorus/pitch shift stuff sounds killer.

[@dan_perry]

The dream box of my teens.

[@Yupppi]

I'd love a video just going through all the gear in those old racks, just naming them if not demoing the units. Like you've shown Zakk Wylde's and I could pretty much only name Lee Jackson stuff and SPX90, and even that after you showed what SPX90 is. Now looking at that Vai rack, it looks like there's two different color H3000 or similar, PCM70 and then like 10 units of complete mystery to me (except if you count Furman). Is that one unit like SPX90 or derived unit? The control layout looks recognizable, but something looks weird on the left side. In the Lukather picture there's at least enough resolution and clarity to almost read things if you don't recognize the units. Some very recognizable units like H3000, 2x PCM70, Korg tuner, dbx compressor, CAE preamp, vht classic, then a couple of units I don't know. Oh yeah, Vai's rack has that Digitech thingy that someone on the forums praised to have been great before modern Digitech.

[@vaughanmacegan4012]

Where was the Steve Vai "Just Like Paradise" patch? I waited all video for it and never got it! Is there a reason why you didn't show/use/discuss the plugin version?

[@machinelanguage5108]

11:35 this is the signature H3000 sound for me. Patch Factory and the following Stutter. The H3000 is full of these. Great for playing around with when you're stoned, but in practical application most of the presets are just pretty unusable. It's become one of those units that everyone feels the need to buy and proudly display in their rack, but which they never touch after using it once when they first get it.

[@italoop7850]

Gtr is not perfectly in tune. the H3000 pitch detector shows you the note and its tuning in cents. I read notes being out of tune like -35 cents or even 50. That's one reason for the glitches you may hear as the software is trying to correct that. Diatonic shift needs a well tuned input signal. 50 cents off is a quarter of tone... a LOT! Quantize can help! And setting the Low and High notes parameters really optimizes pitch shifting latency because the pitch detector will know what to expect. Also the first two dozen presets are the bare algorithms rather than real tweaks. You want to hear good reverb? Look past the algorithms... Pitch shifting is not polyphonic! You may have some luck with 3rds and 5ths but chords are not the thing. The multi-fa thing....A Quadraverb or LXP15 from the same age would do more effects at the same time, like delay+chorus+reverb and something else. The H3000 doesn't. It's a highly specialized multi-fx working on SINGLE effects, so you have a veriety of algorithms doing one thing at the time. You can get a couple of effects, like modulation and delays using the modular algorithms or a few other ones, which work as environments rather than single block effects. That's pretty much the same concept of multi-fx of the PCM70. The H3000 runs thre processors in parallel and each effect shines because of that, the number of parameters is amazing, the internal parameters modulation sources do great things (Function generator/input signal/etc.) and tone is amazing. owed to a greatly designed analog input section. The stereo spread is unique. You want reverb? kzbin.info/www/bejne/opeogYmvnrN3h80 or kzbin.info/www/bejne/e36mi2ydbKqVeMk It's a deep machine, requiring time to learn before anything.... and yes, input signal is way too low.... A lot more examples the H3000 can do: www.italodeangelis.com/it/eventide_and_other_stuff/eventide_H3000.asp

[@Pierrelegere]

Would it be possible to describe your signal flow?

[@ThreeBeingOne]

Just ended a major gas bought with an eventide space. In love.

[@triclone123]

To make it sound like Steve Vai in "Slip of the Tongue" we need a PhD, an IQ of 228 and 40 days fasting isolated in a mountain.

[@ProfVonW]

Great run through. Makes me want an H90 now. Has Friedman started making guitars again yet?

[@soundvillage5977]

This beast is great. Is there any possibility to recreate the dense room preset on a plugin or other hardware?

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

I love it. Sounds killer

[@hollywoodjakespeed8354]

A fantastic unit. It's weird, that with the progress in chip technology, that Eventide hasn't "shrunk" down the H3000 to a pedal.(of course, you get into all sorts of tech weirdness going down that rabbit hole.)

[@BigHairyGuitars]

The H9 is realllllllly close. Probably as close as you can get in a moderately priced pedal.

[@dan_perry]

The H9 is a great pedal but it's no H class rack procesor....vsig makes the rack stuff far more flexible.

[@sarahandjoe2011]

Damn, I want one of these!

[@drummerman64]

Lots of well-known singers owe their careers to an Eventide 👍

[@preciseaudioblog]

Oh man such a great demo. Do you have a demo of it on vocals?

[@kyletims9572]

5150 Micro Pitch !!!!!

[@Benjammin117]

Cool man I'm wearing my amp smasher today!!!

[@squirelova1815]

"That thing belongs in a MUSEUM!" -Indiana Jones

[@richardfuller9274]

Preset 193 in stereo with two modded Superleads and you are into some Dr FEELGOOD goodness....