

Producer Tony Visconti used the H910 to achieve the now-legendary snare sound on David Bowie’s Young Americans, and Tony Platt did likewise on AC/DC’s Back in Black. Tor controlling ene Harmonizer, and option 06, polyphonic.
Eventide h910 harmonizer polyphonic pdf#
The H910 harmonizer by Eventide (19751984). View online (46 pages) or download PDF (829 KB) Eventide H910 Rackmount Owners manual H910. Jimmy Page was an early fan, incorporating the H910 into his guitar rack, and, similarly, Frank Zappa employed it heavily as part of his guitar sound. Analog pitch shifters do not work well with polyphonic sound sources. In 1974, Agnello conceived of a harmony processor but had little idea that he was creating a classic tool for the most successful artists of their generation. With its unique combinations of pitch shifting, modulation and delay. Ideal for vocals, guitars, and horns, the Eventide H910 was invented by then-engineer, Tony Agnello. The Eventide H910 Harmonizer was the worlds first digital effects processor.


Music engineered on the H910 became the soundtrack of the seventies and eighties drawing praise and extensive use from a select group of top artists and producers. Early customers included New York City’s Channel 5 putting an H910 to work, downward pitch shifting the audio portion of “I Love Lucy” reruns that were sped up to squeeze in more commercials. Users soon found all sorts of applications, ranging from regenerative arpeggios to bizarre sound design effects to lush guitar or vocal fattening. Its many improvements over the H910 included micro pitch change mode, two pitch change. A custom analog-to-digital converter, companding, filtering, and analog feedback. I believe that the Eventide H949 Harmonizer hit the market in 1980. It used simple digital logic gates and some of the earliest RAM memory chips but was, in large measure, an analog beast. Yes, vocalist Jon Anderson tested the first prototype. The original H910 was a 100 software-free, analog and digital processor that predated the earliest practical ADC or DSP chips by several years.
