Dave L
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Always nice to see choice vintage gear getting a new chance at life 
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csguy0
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Great tones! Channeling my inner nerd with the manuals 
mentoneman
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outside of tinkering with a few H3000s and borrowing an H8000 for a while, i’ve never owned a big boy H so i’m most looking forward to exploring that legend!Always nice to see choice vintage gear getting a new chance at life
Exo-metal
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Tell us about the H8000 experience...
mentoneman
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i’m dead serious when i say this nerd has to be in the right frame of mind to crack a heavily technical manual.Great tones! Channeling my inner nerd with the manuals
although i fully appreciate having the manufacturer’s hard copies available to reference versus having to zoom into this crap on my phone,
or precariously perch my laptop somewhere strategically visible while i crawl around the dark back alleys of my tokyo rack to patch stuff properly, it is most certainly a love/hate relationship!
mentoneman
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i’ll have more to tell once i can spend quality time with the H3K for comparison.
until then here’s what kind of menu diving i have to look forward to to extract the joy
Little B
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Leon's vids are awesome. He's got good ones of the 2290 too.
The 3000 is a deep machine for sure.Almost anything you can dream up is in that box waiting to come out.
So glad you got it serviced.I just had my 8000 serviced.Its nice knowing these units can have a clean bill of health again! For me,it and the 2290 have about anything covered I'd need.
The 3000 is a deep machine for sure.Almost anything you can dream up is in that box waiting to come out.
So glad you got it serviced.I just had my 8000 serviced.Its nice knowing these units can have a clean bill of health again! For me,it and the 2290 have about anything covered I'd need.
mentoneman
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i’ll likely be living in very modestly tweaked factory presets for a long time to come!
when i had my friend’s H8000 for a few months, i had a hard time with understanding how to store presets on DSP A/B and midi recall combined presets things properly. the rule per Eventide folks:
“If you want the H8000FW to respond to one MIDI message and not differentiate between DSP A and DSP B, then you should turn Omni Mode to On. See below from page 95 of the manual:
omni mode - If this is on, then a MIDI message on any channel is accepted and dutifully obeyed by every MIDI message recipient in the H8000FW. This keeps things simple in simple setups. If this is off, then every MIDI recipient in the H8000FW specifies which MIDI channel (offset from the base channel) it will accept messages on.
If Omni Mode is off, then DSP A will respond to MIDI program change messages on the Base Channel and DSP B will respond to MIDI program change messages on the Base Channel + 1. If you want them both to respond to the same MIDI program change message, then set Omni Mode to On.”
the catch is i didn’t want to use OMNI and abandon using discreet midi channel for my other devices.
mentoneman
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a little blurb on the H3K evolution:
“The H3000 went through a long line of versions and upgrades. The original H3000 had 11 effects algorithms and 100 presets focused on the Eventide staples of pitch shifting, doubling, chorus and delays and some basic reverb. That was followed by the H3000S (the “Steve Vai” model which added 48 presets designed by Steve), the H3000B (Broadcast version, which added TimeSqueeze, Patch Factory, a function generator for modulation, and sound effects designed for radio production – got a lot of love from shock-jock Howard Stern). The H3000SE added Vocoder, Band Delays, Instant Phaser, String Modeler, new Dense Reverb and MultiShift pitch shift algorithms. Brian Eno loved the H3000SE so much that he even sent a letter to the team calling it “the best-designed piece and most enjoyable piece of equipment [he’s] ever owned.”
i bought the preset upgrade cards online and had Foley install them/do the mod to the jumper traces, and take my SE it to the max 3500B-D/SX preset/algorithm option.
ChurchHill
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Yeah, the 3000 is a deep machine. I can get lost in it for hours. Editing is actually fairly intuitive once you understand how to navigate, at least for most algorithms. Mod Factory 1 and Mod Factory 2 are capable of some amazing things and aren't as intuitive, but worth it, at least from some of the examples I've heard. I generally find reverse shifters and band delays to be where I spend most of my time, though. There are some great reverbs in there, too.
Little B
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Totally relate to that..went thru it on my 8000 too.i mess with the virtual racks,and slightly modify a factory preset maybe..when I got my 8k back from service it had added to it all the factor pedal algos too.Every now and then if I need a good laugh,I'll put the killer verbs,and shifting,delays,away and just scroll away with the wheel.Coyotee howls,elephant outbursts, space landings,sirens,doorbells,wind,rain,race cars,computers fighting, lol..so,now to just make that stuff work in an actual song loli’ll likely be living in very modestly tweaked factory presets for a long time to come!
when i had my friend’s H8000 for a few months, i had a hard time with understanding how to store presets on DSP A/B and midi recall combined presets things properly. the rule per Eventide folks:
“If you want the H8000FW to respond to one MIDI message and not differentiate between DSP A and DSP B, then you should turn Omni Mode to On. See below from page 95 of the manual:
omni mode - If this is on, then a MIDI message on any channel is accepted and dutifully obeyed by every MIDI message recipient in the H8000FW. This keeps things simple in simple setups. If this is off, then every MIDI recipient in the H8000FW specifies which MIDI channel (offset from the base channel) it will accept messages on.
If Omni Mode is off, then DSP A will respond to MIDI program change messages on the Base Channel and DSP B will respond to MIDI program change messages on the Base Channel + 1. If you want them both to respond to the same MIDI program change message, then set Omni Mode to On.”
the catch is i didn’t want to use OMNI and abandon using discreet midi channel for my other devices.
mentoneman
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i worked as a cameraman on an instructional video for fender eons ago
don’t judge me
anyhoo the pro recording studio we were filming in just received the H3K D/SX which was released that year and during my lunch break i played through most of the presets DI’ed in the console with headphones. great way to first become acquainted with the fidelity and stereo impact of that legendary box!
mentoneman
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oh yeah you can waste some serious time emulating martian children’s choirs and fax machines with these crazy boxes!
ChurchHill
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i worked as a cameraman on an instructional video for fender eons ago
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don’t judge me
anyhoo the pro recording studio we were filming in just received the H3K D/SX which was released that year and during my lunch break i played through most of the presets DI’ed in the console with headphones. great way to first become acquainted with the fidelity and stereo impact of that legendary box!
That sounds like the best way to get to know it! There's nothing like it. I've got a 4000 and an Eclipse and love them both, too, but there's just something extra with the 3000. It's just that instantly recognizable sound.
Dave L
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I don´t think I´ve had my H3000 off in fifteen years 
One box that´s always on in some capacity.
One box that´s always on in some capacity.
mentoneman
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the sound of the 3000s having a special vibe versus later evolutions is what always seems to come up and why i was willing to pony up for the repair versus hunting down a eclipse. had to have the legendary OGs together in the rack:
H3000 SE/2290/PCM 80
mentoneman
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hero!I don´t think I´ve had my H3000 off in fifteen years
i’m sure i’ll be leaning on you veteran power users for tips and tweakable factory presets you can’t live without!
my friend parks his 8000 on diamond rain which btw the fractal has a very authentic replica of.
Dave L
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The 4000 series also has a smidge of vibe, for lack of a better word. I kept a GTR4000 over an Eclipse many moons ago and never regretted it. I guess 1993 digital maybe wasn´t quite as pristine clean as later stuff even at the top of the food chain. Massive-sounding modulation FX, and the whole box just sits right in my ears, vague as that is.
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Anje
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Cool to see yours is back at work!
Love mine, one of the best effect devices ever IMHO, got that almost "perfect happy medium" between older units with lots of sound character AND the processing power / capability to do so much. Not many others I can think of that fall into that special category.
Love mine, one of the best effect devices ever IMHO, got that almost "perfect happy medium" between older units with lots of sound character AND the processing power / capability to do so much. Not many others I can think of that fall into that special category.
mentoneman
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i don’t wanna be responsible for post 3000 owners jumping off roofs
ALL the H series boxes and the eclipse are great!
Ed the og tone merchants owner had an eclipse i got to demo one day and it has all kinds of great fx in it. i almost bought a 4000B once and briefly checked that out but opted for my first 2290.
but the older stuff does seem to have unique ways of coloring and filtering tone and powerful spatial definition.
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