Ever heard of the HM80 Harmonizer?

[Orville71]

We want to hear from you! If you've ever used an Eventide #HM80Harmonizer, shoot us a dm or comment below with your favorite memory of the product!

The purpose of this inquiry is it's our 50th Anniversary celebrating and we're documenting our history. We look forward to hearing from all our past & present users.

[Krakatau]

i owned one bought during the early eighties, ...i was at first a bit dissapointed because of the fact that, as an harmonizer, this unit was rather unusable because of the inherent delay of the unit, and the rather unstability of the delay feedback

Nevertheless

In the other hand, I've been very pleasantly surprised be the shimmering effect you can get with it, and it was the very first time i could hear this, very versatile effect (especially at one octave up) especially at the reverse mode the avoided the glitches induced by pitch transposition, that i used in many sound sources that where at these early times of home-studio almost exclusively acoustic instruments recorded on 4 tracks cassettes portable studio ( triangles, metallophones, voices, as far i remember )

Also a very interesting feedback effect when adding a slight up or down transposition in the feedback loop, i handeled it manually at these times that has an interest from live or improvised performances

[Krakatau]

If you allow me, let me then post here some of my early creations on 4 track cassettes (tascam 144 portastudio) involving the Hm80 in some tracks

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i3spklw36caze ... e.mp3?dl=0

"a dusty sunshine" ...cabasa and metallophone where treated through an octave up reverse effect by the hm80


https://www.dropbox.com/s/5zs3pw4ug482q ... n.mp3?dl=0

here some synth presets (poly-800) and triangle through an octave up shimmering effect

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i679b9evw1452 ... ation?dl=0

here some effet with slight transposition and feedback controlled manually on gong and flute

all where made on a 4 track cassette from 1981 to 1984 !

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EDITED : my dropbox seems in trouble, i'll see if i can fix this
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[DNastee1]

That thing looks... interesting

[Krakatau]

it is indeed and I'd love to see an emulation of it as plug-in only by nostalgia,... though AFAIK it sound seems already covered by both emulations of H910 and H949

[Krakatau]

in this tune, the last sounds of both metallophone and synth are treated through HM80 an octave up on reverse mode ...this remastered work has been created during early 80 with the very first 4 track cassette on the market of these times (tascam 144)

...also, i forgot, the flanging-like effect on the piano is due to the HM80

https://soundcloud.com/perbuatan1883/an ... al_sharing