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So I got a cool new piece of gear for free. Free gear is better than free beer! A friend of my parents was relocating/downsizing and gave them some leftover stuff that was in the way. One of those items (strangely) was an Eventide H3000-D/SX, which eventually made its way to MY gear room. 
This seemed to be quite generous, as these can be sold for hundreds of dollars on the bay (more on that later...) It sat around for a while, and I finally got it installed in my rack. I did a basic power on test first, and everything seemed to be in good working condition. I believe this is an early 90's model, and it would seem to be a good match for my 90's era POD PRO which has pretty limited effects. It only has XLR inputs, so you can't just plug a guitar into it. The trouble is, the ins and outs are not quite compatible. I needed to make a couple effects loop cables, which I did (balanced mono XLR to unbalanced stereo 1/4", with different pinouts between the send and return):
OK then I had to set jumpers on the mainboard to set the H3000 up for the -10dBV consumer line level that the POD expects, after blowing out some dust. Done. Here it is on my ESD pad getting worked on:
I get this baby in the rack, factory reset it, set the software levels through the front panel, and everything came right up. I'm DIGGING the presets on it, very nice delays, reverbs, flanges, etc. The harmonizer presets are wild! All of a sudden, this thing just goes offline. The bypass relay clicks and it seems to just sort of crash. Ugh! Power reset, after a minute...it does it again. Well there's no way it's overheating, it's not that hot and it's all passive cooling. I dig around on the forums, and that power connector on the upper left of the mainboard seems to be the root of all evil on these things. I tear everything down again, and clean those contacts with some DeoxIT. All back together again, and she's staying on. WOOHOO I'm really enjoying this thing!
This seemed to be quite generous, as these can be sold for hundreds of dollars on the bay (more on that later...) It sat around for a while, and I finally got it installed in my rack. I did a basic power on test first, and everything seemed to be in good working condition. I believe this is an early 90's model, and it would seem to be a good match for my 90's era POD PRO which has pretty limited effects. It only has XLR inputs, so you can't just plug a guitar into it. The trouble is, the ins and outs are not quite compatible. I needed to make a couple effects loop cables, which I did (balanced mono XLR to unbalanced stereo 1/4", with different pinouts between the send and return): OK then I had to set jumpers on the mainboard to set the H3000 up for the -10dBV consumer line level that the POD expects, after blowing out some dust. Done. Here it is on my ESD pad getting worked on:
I get this baby in the rack, factory reset it, set the software levels through the front panel, and everything came right up. I'm DIGGING the presets on it, very nice delays, reverbs, flanges, etc. The harmonizer presets are wild! All of a sudden, this thing just goes offline. The bypass relay clicks and it seems to just sort of crash. Ugh! Power reset, after a minute...it does it again. Well there's no way it's overheating, it's not that hot and it's all passive cooling. I dig around on the forums, and that power connector on the upper left of the mainboard seems to be the root of all evil on these things. I tear everything down again, and clean those contacts with some DeoxIT. All back together again, and she's staying on. WOOHOO I'm really enjoying this thing!
I HATE BEING LEFT HANDED! 
I rock out to Baby metal because Wilkinsi said I can't listen to Rick Astley anymore.
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