Eventide H3000 Factory $79

[Guy Rowland]

Reduced from $349



I suspect Bill might be an expert here - originally I thought this was the full H3000 but this is some kind of variation on it, a different specific hardware model.

[wst3]

no expert I'm afraid, but I do have a few of their dinosaurs in my collection<G>. And I confess, I do not understand their sales strategy these days - but an H3000 for $79? That's quite deal.

I purchased their Anthology bundle a while back, specifically for the Instant Flanger and Instant Phaser - these two modulation effects found there way into almost every project I've done since I bought them back in the late 1980s. Interestingly enough, somewhere along the way I started experimenting with the H3000 Factory - and it is really quite good.

It's almost a modular signal processor - it does not include all the features of the hardware (they did a similar thing with their 2016), but the included effects sound terrific, and it is frighteningly flexible and deep.

For $79 I'd suggest it is a great deal for anyone interested in diving into delay and modulated delay effects.

Returning to my original comment on sales and marketing - I owned half a dozen of their plugins, including two (Ultra-Channel and Ultra-Reverb, which were free for a brief time) and there was an offer to upgrade to the previous Anthology bundle for some ridiculous price, so picking up H3000 Factory could lead to owning too many plugins<G>.

Of the bunch, the ones I use frequently include: Instant Phaser and Instant Flanger, SP2016 Reverb, MangleVerb and Blackhole (specialty items to be sure), H3000 and H910 (somewhat specialty as well), and all three Ultra plugins. Nine out of 20-some-odd, but those nine are really cool. And sometimes I will experiment with the others.

Eventide, alongside Lexicon and Quantec, were pioneers in digital signal processing. All of them did quite a bit right!

[Guy Rowland]

Bill. I still don’t quite get what the thinking was between the hardware H3000 and the Factory version. Some different electronics inside and a sort of patch bay or something?

[GR Baumann]

Would love the H3500 as a plug, difference was sampling capability.

There is something about the real thing... hardware, stunning piece of gear!

[wst3]

Bill. I still don’t quite get what the thinking was between the hardware H3000 and the Factory version. Some different electronics inside and a sort of patch bay or something?

You are not alone - I do not understand what drove them to market things the way they did. So many strange choices!