Eventide H9 Observations

[SFW]

Has anyone else noticed with the H9 the drop in bottom end? I added an H9 to my board (for the third time...) and while setting up patches have noticed that compared to my Strymon Mobius, the H9 takes a little bottom end out of my sound. I'm sure this is because with the H9 there is no dry signal through and everything has to go through the ADDA converter. Just something that I noticed. It's kind of annoying... especially when you consider the cost of the unit. I'm hoping that eventually they will correct with with a firmware update.

 

[GOHOINC]

Has anyone else noticed with the H9 the drop in bottom end? I added an H9 to my board (for the third time...) and while setting up patches have noticed that compared to my Strymon Mobius, the H9 takes a little bottom end out of my sound. I'm sure this is because with the H9 there is no dry signal through and everything has to go through the ADDA converter. Just something that I noticed. It's kind of annoying... especially when you consider the cost of the unit. I'm hoping that eventually they will correct with with a firmware update.

Hmm, I haven't noticed this. I'm running mine in the loop of a jj100 and a butterslax. any patches in particualr? I certainly notice tone changes patch to patch but many patches have hi and lo pass on them so I've always attributed to that... I'll test some tonight if I can and report what I hear.

 

[SFW]

Ok. So I just installed the latest firmware. Its definitely better now. Although I can still hear a difference in tone between the Mobius and the H9. I have them both in the loop of my QuickRod. Although they do reside in loops on my Musicom Labs EFX MK III. The firmware update did assist with the transparency. I mainly use the Micropitch -9/+9 mixed very low to help give my sound some spread and to thicken it up a bit.

For lack of a better way to put it, the H9 sounds more hifi and polished. The Mobius keeps the amp sounding rawer.

 

[SpiderWars]

What about compared to a cable (or nothing) instead of the Mobius? I had a Mobius and felt it altered the tone (actually added high end). And it wasn't because the signal needed a buffer, the Mobius just had a tone .

 

[SFW]

What about compared to a cable (or nothing) instead of the Mobius? I had a Mobius and felt it altered the tone (actually added high end). And it wasn't because the signal needed a buffer, the Mobius just had a tone .

I have both units in a loop switcher. So that when I activate one, the other is taken complete out of the signal path. The Strymon stuff definitely has an effect on the core tone, however, to my ears it has less of an effect than the ADDA converters in the H9. As I said, I feel like it has gotten a lot better after installing the latest firmware version. It still imparts a more hifi quality to the overall sound though. It is neither good or bad.. depending on how you choose to look at it. It's just a different sound.

It really boils down to what mood I'm in that day. Some days I want a super polished tone. Some days, I want that Joe Holmes Farmikos raw AF tone.

 

[Shask]

Maybe run it through a parallel mixer so you can keep your dry through?

 

[Exo-metal]

Bingo, that's what I was thinking.

 

[stratjacket]

May want to run through them to double check the internal settings if you have not already.

Make sure it has the right source input selected
https://www.eventideaudio.com/support/downloads/changing-h9-source-instrument

Routing
https://www.eventideaudio.com/support/downloads/setting-prepost-routing-options-h9

Page 13 - 16 setting unit levels, type of bypass ( it does have true bypass as an option), page29 routing, etc...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.eventide.downloads/Product+Manuals/H9-UserGuide.pdf#page17