KVR Audio

Synapse2k · Post by **Synapse2k** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:13 am

Do you want the 3G experience?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:29 am

I'm amazed at some of the tracks this was used on. Not quite as obvious as say a Bowie, EVH Guitar or the AC/DC snare might be.

Here's a more obscure example: Classic Tracks: 'So Into You,' Atlanta Rhythm Section

Mills captured the keyboard direct—the core sound is that piano itself—but he also treated it with a Harmonizer during the mix.

“I EQ’d it quite a bit coming into the console, and I think I also had an outboard Langevin passive graphic EQ on it, but a big part of that sound was from a Lexicon[*] Harmonizer H910,” Mills recalls. “They brought that piece of gear out in 1975, and I remember reading the audio magazines at that time and thinking, ‘Ronnie is forever doing these harmonies, and they’ve got a device now we can set to a harmony part so he won’t have to sing all the parts.’

“But the practical side of it, of course, was the digital harmony wouldn’t sound natural. We got the thing in, and I was trying to make all these harmonies, and I was thinking, ‘I hope I didn’t ask Buddy to spend all this money on something we can’t even use.’ But I kept experimenting with it, and when we were mixing, I’d detune the Harmonizer just by the smallest increment below unison. I realized it would detune the piano, and it was like magic. The sound of that piano, to this day, is instantly recognizable.

“Another thing that the Harmonizer helped with was the limitations of the console,” Mills continues. “We only had one reverb send per channel, so if you wanted reverb, you sent it out of each individual track. I didn’t have enough inputs to do things any other way. So I took the reverb send from the only source on every input and patched it into the reverb chamber we had, and then, on everything where I sent a signal to the reverb chamber, I also sent a signal to the Harmonizer. So on that song, anything that has reverb on it also has Harmonizer on it, including drums, and the guitars. It’s more noticeable on Dean’s electric piano than anything, but even when Robert Nix plays that ride cymbal on the end of the song, I can hear that Harmonizer because it always had a little delay and a weird sound to it.”
- See more at: http://www.mixonline.com/news/classic-t ... mY80E.dpuf

[*] Me thinks he meant Eventide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIZ3pYKOQM

Synapse2k · Post by **Synapse2k** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:09 pm

Is this youtube video some sort of electricery to trick me that it says "Sonic Youth" love em. They got robbed awhile back. Someone took the whole bands trailer and they mentioned it on a list server I was on because they have special tunings that they don't know how to repeat that can't make the same classic Sonic Youth VIBE. That's why I love digital. SAVE MY HD PLEASE DUDES I keep getting HD wipeouts. The H910 unit is still on sale I think and pure digital copied exact from hardware. Wi-fi it don't 3G it. 3G. 5G. Gotta cancel. WAYYYYYYY overpriced 5G everywhere.

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:16 pm

^ Eh!?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:40 pm

Synapse2k wrote:Is this youtube video some sort of electricery to trick me that it says "Sonic Youth" love em. They got robbed awhile back. Someone took the whole bands trailer and they mentioned it on a list server I was on because they have special tunings that they don't know how to repeat that can't make the same classic Sonic Youth VIBE. That's why I love digital. SAVE MY HD PLEASE DUDES I keep getting HD wipeouts. The H910 unit is still on sale I think and pure digital copied exact from hardware. Wi-fi it don't 3G it. 3G. 5G. Gotta cancel. WAYYYYYYY overpriced 5G everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

ChamomileShark · Post by **ChamomileShark** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:14 pm

worst....rick...roll...ever

Harry_HH · Post by **Harry_HH** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:22 pm

No, its great - classical. Makes me smile although hated SAW back then. And have to admit, its catchy. Oh, innocent 80's...

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:28 pm

ChamomileShark wrote:worst....rick...roll...ever

You're right. He was soooooooooooooooooooooooo off topic, I just couldn't be bothered.

Rommelaar · Post by **Rommelaar** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:16 pm

No love, never heard of it.

crystalmsc · Post by **crystalmsc** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:02 am

I love it, it's my choice for a musical and easy to use harmonizer. From the subtle to the extreme, especially when being used with the other effects from the Anthology X, hopefully it will be upgraded with a rack system as well. Using the H910 with something like the Permut8 on many sound sources is endless fun.

DGillespie · Post by **DGillespie** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:39 pm

pheeleep wrote:Does H910 have a reverse mode? It's one of my favorite features of crystallizer. I looked at the H910 GUI and didn't see a reverse feature. But then again I just took a quick peek. Might have missed it.

Hi pheeleep,

As teacue mentioned, the H910 doesn't have a reverse shift mode, but the H949 does. The H949 also has the same analog modeling that we did for the H910.

Dan (a guy at Eventide)

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:00 pm

DGillespie wrote:
pheeleep wrote:Does H910 have a reverse mode? It's one of my favorite features of crystallizer. I looked at the H910 GUI and didn't see a reverse feature. But then again I just took a quick peek. Might have missed it.
Hi pheeleep,

As teacue mentioned, the H910 doesn't have a reverse shift mode, but the H949 does. The H949 also has the same analog modeling that we did for the H910.

Dan (a guy at Eventide)

Hi Dan

Thanks for dropping by, and for the info!

Any hint on whether the H949 will be released as a separate plugin like the H910?

DGillespie · Post by **DGillespie** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:33 pm

lnikj wrote:
Hi Dan

Thanks for dropping by, and for the info!

Any hint on whether the H949 will be released as a separate plugin like the H910?

Hi lnikj,

I'm sure it will be, though I don't know when.

Dan

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:54 pm

DGillespie wrote:
lnikj wrote:
Hi Dan

Thanks for dropping by, and for the info!

Any hint on whether the H949 will be released as a separate plugin like the H910?
Hi lnikj,

I'm sure it will be, though I don't know when.

Dan

Thanks. You have got me in two minds, as in my OP I was torn between this and Crystallizer and now I wonder if the H949 might be what I am looking for.

Melvin J. · Post by **Melvin J.** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 1:18 pm

Does it require iLok?

No H910 Love?