Re: Fripper Gear Trivia

[Doug Wellington <dougwellington@yahoo.com>]

> Let me ask you this, then: Suppose you had three (or two, or one) 
>H8000(s):
> What would you do with them that you can't do with what you have at your 
>disposal and that would really bring forward what you do musically?


Well...  OK, maybe I'm a bit biased...  I own two Eventide units, a 
GTR4000 with 
the big sampling option, and an H8000FW, and I am the maintainer of vSigX, 
the 
Harmonizer(tm) patch editor for the Mac.  I do not work for Eventide, but 
they 
have lent me an Eclipse for testing...

I don't know what Fripp does with his, but I can do things with my 
Harmonizers 
that I can't do with any other standalone hardware effects unit.  The 
Harmonizer 
is completely modular.  Any of the 200+ effects modules can be put in any 
order, 
and the audio and control routings are completely flexible.  With vSigX, I 
can 
completely program my effects patches with about the same level of control 
as my 
modular analog synth gives me.  (And I have *way* more money invested in 
my 
modular than I do in the Harmonizers!)  Another way to think of it is that 
the 
Harmonizer is the Nord Modular of effects units...

You may be able to accomplish the same kind of thing by using a bunch of 
other 
units together, but nobody else that I know of provides a single box 
solution 
with this kind of effects processing power.  It's amazing to me that the 
H8000 
is a basically a ten year old design and nobody has surpassed it...

Regards,
Doug