Eventide H90

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Anyone using these in their rig? How does it stack up to its big brothers?
 
You guys all convinced me to go with one over the H9 and I'm glad I did. The sound quality is spectacular. To my ears it sounds as good as the 9000 but obviously nowhere near as comprehensive. I personally don't need all that power. Also, I know its a douche move but I bought an H9 to see if the sound quality differed from the H90 and they were exactly the same but I returned it right away since I just wanted to compare for my own selfishness. I say go for the H90 (y)
 
I own both the H9 and H90 but the H9 sits unused. Not worth selling it for what they go for these days. I probably should off the 90 since I really only use like 3 different algorithms, but the H90 is easier to tweak with the desktop ap.
 
I have both. Use my H90 for a few tweaked sounds in my wet speakers then the H9 single setting for a lead sound that comes through the dry speaker during leads only with an increased dB. It’s what I hear in my head. So that’s what I go to
 
I've never owned or tried the expensive rack mount units, so no help comparing against those. But I am a big Eventide H lover. I had 2 H9's for maybe 10 years. I bought the H90 and still have my H9's, and they're still on my board. I change things around from time to time, but for the last several months I have my H9 with a micro shift that's always on. That feeds into the H9 where I use delay and reverb or other effects. Works great, lasts a long time.
 
I have an H9 Max, I use it with my Vox Continental organ rig; I got a used H90, tried it, it was very good, but sold it to get a Poly Effects Beebo which lets you to combine their algorithms to create your own effects:

https://www.polyeffects.com/polyeffects/p/beebo

For more traditional guitar effects, I got a Boss HX-100 which is has 170+ guitar (and bass) effects. Not using the amp/cab modeling - I have a Helix Floor and Fractal FM9 for that.
 
It's good, like mine a lot. I think the Eclipse is a better overall processor with higher quality effects and a few algos that don't exist on the H90, but the H90 has a lot more "creature comforts" that make it better to integrate into a guitar rig. Nice editor, bluetooth, spillover, instant patch changes, solid converters, super easy MIDI assignments, extremely flexible routing, etc. Still getting updates and upgrades every once in awhile, too. Eventide is doing a great job supporting it.
 
My only issues with it is the computer UI is clunky and there is a nasty hum when USB’d in. Which you need to do if you are tweaking tones. I use it for MIDI and any ‘one off’ tones I’ll need in a set—wild delays, black hole reverb, Blue Box emulation for Fool in the Rain solo, etc. I don’t tap into 1/8 of what the thing can do.
 
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I love mine, basically just does reverbs in my use case. There’s a lot under the hood, but I have a few sounds I like and they’re dialed up using a PBC. Haven’t actually touched the pedal in a while…
 
rsm said:
I have an H9 Max, I use it with my Vox Continental organ rig; I got a used H90, tried it, it was very good, but sold it to get a Poly Effects Beebo which lets you to combine their algorithms to create your own effects:

https://www.polyeffects.com/polyeffects/p/beebo

For more traditional guitar effects, I got a Boss HX-100 which is has 170+ guitar (and bass) effects. Not using the amp/cab modeling - I have a Helix Floor and Fractal FM9 for that.
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How is the Poly Beebo these days? Have they sorted some of the midi vs footswitch challenges and improved latency? I'm years behind the progress on these.
 
tallcoolone said:
My only issues with is the computer UI is clunky and there is a nasty hum when USB’d in. Which you need to do if you are tweaking tones. I use it for MIDI and any ‘one off’ tones I’ll need in a set—wild delays, black hole reverb, Blue Box emulation for Fool in the Rain solo, etc. I don’t tap into 1/8 of what the thing can do.
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On the Hum, do you have it plug in directly to your computer or through a USB hub?
I ran into this with a different pedal (Source Audio) and it was my hub although other pedals in the same hub worked ok. Once I plugged directly to my computer the humming stopped.
 
stratjacket said:
On the Hum, do you have it plug in directly to your computer or through a USB hub?
I ran into this with a different pedal (Source Audio) and it was my hub although other pedals in the same hub worked ok. Once I plugged directly to my computer the humming stopped.
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Thanks, now I need a 12’ USB-C cable lol
 
Classic said:
How is the Poly Beebo these days? Have they sorted some of the midi vs footswitch challenges and improved latency? I'm years behind the progress on these.
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not completely, still have some MIDI signal glitches, especially if you do something complex. not using a footswtich / MIDI controller with mine
 
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