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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.

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.

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.

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”.

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

Used on keys, drums and guitars. It sounds exceptionally natural. When engaged it set your instrument in a natural space which sound very smooth and warm. The EQ is very effective and helps you change the character of the reverb if you are in search of different flavours, but also flat it is extremely pleasant. I would have prefer to have the engage of bypass Led on the front panel and the direct level active only when the unit is engaged, but it does not make the unit less amazing.

It´s the same unit as the Sony MU-R201. Which I owned!

Can be noisy if gain staging isn’t properly setup. The pots get scratchy and are not robust. The dual concentric level controls got frozen together somehow and are not on the same settings. I have to balance my sends to compensate. The jacks are cheaply made and the buttons don’t have good feedback.

But for the money this is a very nice sounding reverb. Can be ice cold and spooky sounding but smooth and works great in mixes. I use it for electro-industrial and it’s an excellent fit on synths, samplers and drum machines. Honestly over the years it’s become a favorite go to unit. It’s an interesting contrast to my Lexicon, Kurzweil and Eventide reverbs. Has some similarities with the Alesis Midiverb II which I also enjoy.

It’s old! Replace those capacitors. Doing so reduced the noise floor on mine noticeably.

I have two of these units. Bought them mainly for mixing drums and they are stellar. You get everything from subtle ambiance to that classic 80’s gated extravaganza. For the prices they go for today, make sure you grab one! Or two!