Latest User Reviews

WILD EFFECTS AND AMAZING QUALITY

By Nina

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 100%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 100%

Eventide effects units are built to the highest standard with the professional studio in mind. The DSP 7000 is no difference. It’s build like a tank and features analog (XLR) as well as digital (AES/EBU, SPDIF) input/output. It has word clock which lots of effect processors are missing and you can build your own effect algorithms if you connect it to a computer via mid (in/out/thru) or serial port. It’s basically the stereo version of the Eventide Orville. The sound quality is simply amazing and the preset effects range from bread and butter reverbs, delays and modulation effects to really wild experimental stuff. I especially love the reverbs. They are from another world! I might sell some of my effect processors at some point and replace them with plugins but i would never sell my Eventide! In fact i really want to get a second one. This unit really brings something to the table that is not available in a plugin to this day and I have tried them all.

FAR BETTER THAN IT GETS CREDIT FOR

By Chris

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 90%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 90%

This thing is fantastic. The H3000 gets all the hype but any of the Eventide Ultra-Harmonizers sound stellar.

ELEKTRAGEN

By Carlos

Sound Quality 85%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 85%
Mojo/Funk 75%
Reliability 90%

Doesn’t have the mojo as the H3000. However the Reverb with doubler is excellent on horns. Many veterans will tell you the H3000 is the one to get but this piece seems to sit in the mix just right.

Review

By Steve Knight

Sound Quality 80%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 70%
Mojo/Funk 60%
Reliability 90%

REVIEW

By Anonymous

Sound Quality 65%
Build Quality 85%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 65%
Reliability 50%

ELEKTRAGEN

By Carlos

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 90%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 90%

This is one of my all time best fx processors ever and will never be beat; ever so don’t try just buy. That’s right boys & girls this lil sucka has the balls and warmth of tape. You can run a Casio through this gal and it sounds like a friggin church organ. Its layout is jacked with the 1 knob but just run it midi & your all good. Now I’ve had 3 of these suckers and 2 had issues, so be wise if ya buy. But never underestimate the H3000. Yes the Reverb’s are not as strong as the Lexicon yet they are a more creative Verb.

The reason they are so sought after is the sound output you get with the fx bypassed. Like running it through a Studer or SSL desk it just adds punch and clarity, compression & warmth on any sound with fx bypassed. It sounds so freaggin gooooood. The best effects in the box are the Phaser, Flanger, Compression, Delay baby & Shimmerish , Dual H910, Canyons, Stutter & Hell. Be warned these babies are temperamental due to age but the sound is all worth it. Please take care of this jem.

WIZARD IN A BOX

By Simon Alexander

Sound Quality 90%
Build Quality 65%
Usefullness 90%
Mojo/Funk 85%
Reliability 75%

This box has pretty much all the effects you can ever use under it’s lid. Sonically, is so clever, but like a lot of early tech from the 80’s it suffers with some real annoying issues. Make no mistake about the quality of what it delivers… From reverbs to quirky delay to pitch shifts, it’s so clever and the quality of what it produces sonically.

To this day, H3000’s are really commanding good prices because they have their own distinctive sound. The operation is easy to use and presets can be recalled either by keypad or by a rotary dial selector. The 2 x 40 display is really nice too, but there is one major issue ALL H3000’s have… and that’s the psu HUM ! It’s deafening!

Like a few other items I can mention from the 80’s that were make in a metal chassis.. this thing is annoyingly noisy! I put my transformer on thick rubber grommets and it’s helps, but you can still hear it. The rotary dial is also very delicate and if they break, there are no spares… Gripe aside, I simply love it’s diversity and difference. The chorus patches are phenomenal and other than the fact the presets follow no logical order of storage, you’ll find something interesting to use, somewhere.

YES YES YES!

By Bernd

Sound Quality 75%
Build Quality 85%
Usefullness 95%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 95%

STILL KILLER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

By Anoymous

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 95%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 85%

It is the original and if funk and mojo are your thing then it is still the best! Nothing sounds like it, there are certainly boxes that sound better in terms of clarity and transparency but that is not why this box is so cherished. Hard to understand until you own one.

OMG THIS IS GOD’S FX BOX

By Zach

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 100%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 95%
Reliability 95%

Full stereo with the lushest chorus (underwater chorus is my favorite), unique effects (try crystal echoes on distorted guitars) and reverbs that give Lexicon a run for their money. I still like my PCM-70 reverbs better, but it’s only a mono input / stereo out unit – using the two together can create the lushest most divine reverb tails you’ll ever hear. And it does all the vocal processing, broadcast functional stuff like megaphones, aircraft comms channel, harmonization, and plus it has a sampler too… which I haven’t even begun to tap into yet. The possibilities of combining this with another stereo unit, or using a TC-2290 in front of it… make one drool.

This is God’s effect unit. They made some other units later, but I don’t see much better stuff in the 4000 range and the 8000 / 9000 range don’t have the sampling that can loop up to something like 48 seconds of audio… those are still selling on the used market but this one isn’t really available much since all the units are installed in the holy ambience chamber beyond the pearly gates. I happened to find one locally and it is never going out of my sight for more than a nanosecond, even has a GPS locator installed, although I don’t know if that will correctly locate it if is gets snarfed by some kind of higher being, be that a deity or advanced alien race that wants to “borrow” it for “the weekend”.

THE BEST EARLY HARMONIZER

By Marcus

Sound Quality 70%
Build Quality 60%
Usefullness 80%
Mojo/Funk 90%
Reliability 30%

I like this one. It’s more flexible and has better audio quality than the H910 but still has the charm.

Review

By Michael Behringer

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 100%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 100%
Reliability 100%

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