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Ok, you may recall the "Did I do good?" thread where I got this thing for like $60 total.
Anyhoo, it's here, and I've been able to do a little with it - nothing major, just running through the presets and some slight tweaking.
The presets are ok - only onw or two that I can actualy use because of the limitations of my playing style [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I'm sure someone with a more theoretical approach could make better use of the wider range of harmoniousness - all that Phrygian add 9 suspended 6th and crap like that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Anyhoo, when I had an older Eventide H3000, I ran it after the ADA and before the fx unit, but the ADA caused some problems with the tracking, so I ran it first into the ADA/fx and it sounded better.
Same deal here. I ran the IPS after the ADA and got the same problems with the tracking, so I put it in the front of the chain and it cleared up.
The IPS has a "dry" out and two Harmony outs. You can pan the Harmonies L/R AND have an unshifted out at the same time.
There's also a Mix knob on the front to set the overall dry/effected output, which has both good and bad potential (there might be times when you want one patch to be stronger than another) but I haven't reached that point yet.
Tracking is very good. I'm no speedball, but I could outrun the H3K fairly easily, but it kept up with bends nicely. The IPS keeps up pretty good, but you can lose it once you start bending.
The IPS' transformer also hums very loudly. It doesn't come through in the signal, but it's definitely audible acoustically.
The IPS also has a feature that the H3K had - you can assign a shift to each note, meaning that you can harmonize your Es up a 3rd and your As down a 5th and so on, but no matter what E or A you're playing, it will always be harmonized that way. For example, you can't say that E2 was harmonized up a 5th and E3 was harmonized down a 3rd. Don't know about the Orville or Eclipse, though.
Anyhoo, I haven't gotten into the programming portion of the IPS to do that, but that made for some interesting harmonies on the H3K - you could play an ascending scale and have the harmony descending.
The best part about the IPS over the H3K - no special cables needed!
The H3K needed special XLR to 1/4" cables which I didn't know about until I got it.
Anyhoo, the IPS so far is great, and for the price it can't be beat. It does sound a bit more like an actual second guitarist than the H3K did, which is what I want. I didn't like the "synthy" sound of the H3K. Vai may like it, but I wanted more of an Iron Maiden twin-guitar tone, and the IPS seems like it can do that better.
And a general note about the Eventide units - don't get the 949 that seems to be going dirt cheap - it cannot do harmonies. It's more of a finalizing unit that fattens up a final mix, which most sellers won't tell you. If you've ever read old interviews with producers that said they added a harmonizer to the final mix - that's what they're talking about.
Anyhoo, it's here, and I've been able to do a little with it - nothing major, just running through the presets and some slight tweaking.
The presets are ok - only onw or two that I can actualy use because of the limitations of my playing style [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I'm sure someone with a more theoretical approach could make better use of the wider range of harmoniousness - all that Phrygian add 9 suspended 6th and crap like that [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Anyhoo, when I had an older Eventide H3000, I ran it after the ADA and before the fx unit, but the ADA caused some problems with the tracking, so I ran it first into the ADA/fx and it sounded better.
Same deal here. I ran the IPS after the ADA and got the same problems with the tracking, so I put it in the front of the chain and it cleared up.
The IPS has a "dry" out and two Harmony outs. You can pan the Harmonies L/R AND have an unshifted out at the same time.
There's also a Mix knob on the front to set the overall dry/effected output, which has both good and bad potential (there might be times when you want one patch to be stronger than another) but I haven't reached that point yet.
Tracking is very good. I'm no speedball, but I could outrun the H3K fairly easily, but it kept up with bends nicely. The IPS keeps up pretty good, but you can lose it once you start bending.
The IPS' transformer also hums very loudly. It doesn't come through in the signal, but it's definitely audible acoustically.
The IPS also has a feature that the H3K had - you can assign a shift to each note, meaning that you can harmonize your Es up a 3rd and your As down a 5th and so on, but no matter what E or A you're playing, it will always be harmonized that way. For example, you can't say that E2 was harmonized up a 5th and E3 was harmonized down a 3rd. Don't know about the Orville or Eclipse, though.
Anyhoo, I haven't gotten into the programming portion of the IPS to do that, but that made for some interesting harmonies on the H3K - you could play an ascending scale and have the harmony descending.
The best part about the IPS over the H3K - no special cables needed!
The H3K needed special XLR to 1/4" cables which I didn't know about until I got it.
Anyhoo, the IPS so far is great, and for the price it can't be beat. It does sound a bit more like an actual second guitarist than the H3K did, which is what I want. I didn't like the "synthy" sound of the H3K. Vai may like it, but I wanted more of an Iron Maiden twin-guitar tone, and the IPS seems like it can do that better.
And a general note about the Eventide units - don't get the 949 that seems to be going dirt cheap - it cannot do harmonies. It's more of a finalizing unit that fattens up a final mix, which most sellers won't tell you. If you've ever read old interviews with producers that said they added a harmonizer to the final mix - that's what they're talking about.
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