Well, just went over and placed half down on my H3000 D/SX and ran through some of the presets with the guy. I'd have to say, it beats the snot out of 'plugs' in a New York minute. I saw like 900 presets in this thing. It would take forever to get through them all.
Still, I love some of resonance and atmospheric tonalities coming out of the thing.
163-Cystal Echo 2 reverse shift is sweet in a shimmering way, while some of the others like
278-Flutterous Room stereo Shift...just had a kind of ominous microtuning ambience that had melancholy written all over it.
308-Canyon Reverb Factory is absolutely huge and beautiful sounding with pads, while
321 Hellverb was very cool, eerie in the way you could feedback the delays then pitch shift them...it was intense!. I can see why Robin Guthrie would want to use this on his guitar sound. you could do away with your pedal effects and just go to your preset with a midi program change foot switch..easy really. You'd do your heavy editing to get your sound right, back home, before the gig. Then, you could name your preset to the title of the song you would play, and it'd be easy as Shoe-Fly Pie on stage
Eventide definitely has a color all its own that is
NOT Lexicon by any stretch of the imagination. The thing is deep, but I found that it was very easy to use. I am old school, anyway so where the 'hard to program' bit came in from someone, is beyond me. I love the way you can preassign any specific parameters to the front panel quick edit pushbuttons and then tweak to your hearts desire. This is one $900 dollar box I think I will keep for a very very long time. I also got the manual with the unit, so if anyone needs a pdf copy of it, I'll scan it and send it along. Just PM me.
On the down note its XLR I/O but I can live with that.
I'm gonna have alot of fun with this baby. Parameters are even midi syncable.
