I contend that you will not sell your Golden before your H90, for its combination of UI immediacy, sweet spots and sound are not easy to find in a reverb pedal in its price league.
Multi-effects such as the H90 are a huge convenience and overall considerably cheaper in the end than a convoluted chain of equivalent specialist pedals, which also require plenty of accessories (power brick, cables, remote control, board, buffers, MIDI, etc.). However, these multi-talents tend to lure you into a deep rabbit hole. Sometimes, less can be more, even if less costs relatively more and is considerably less more.
The thing to remember with the H90 is that each algo is like a whole pedal, which you have to learn. Even just the reverbs. I started on a H9Max in like 2015 and took my time with it.
During the pandemic I went on a reverb quest. They all have things to recommend them. Eventides sound great alone and in a mix (obviously, donāt use Blackhole when you want a Spring sound and vice versa). The other surprise favourite was Neunaber Wet. It does one thing but very well, and works especially well on sounds with lots of low end. Great on guitar, bass and synth and with a few controls goes from subtle to outer space.
Others I tried: Boss RV-500 very good and underrated with tons of control, but I prefer Eventide on a few things.
Source Audio Ventris. Very cool. Some very unique sounds. Hate the app interface (preferred Eventideās)
I love Strymon but since thatās on my guitar playerās pedalboard I thought a different flavour was in order.
Agreed on most points. The Golden is really good at what it does and thereās always a use for that style of reverb in my world. The simplicity of it is certainly a plus as well. I think thatās actually UAās super-power. They tend to do stripped down control sets very well and it never feels like critical functionality is missing.
Having said that, Iām also the master of not caring too much with the H90, so while Iāll spend time building out my own patches, Iām also more than happy to download a bunch from Patch Storage, check them out, tweak and favorite them and then just get on with it. I personally donāt get too lost in this particular box for some reason. I did have to do a few days of focused work in the App to get used to how itās laid out, but once I did I found it to be fast and focused and I didnāt get too sucked in.
I should also note that thereās a universe of poorly or half-learned tools trailing behind me, so Iām not really the guy to talk to about mastering any particular anything. I tend to dive in, get things working and then make music with itā¦or forget that certain tools even do somethings and then rediscover them later on. Thereās a lot of room for improvement in what I do.
How does this pedal compares with a pioneer rmx 1000 or a korg replay for performance FXs? Looking for FXs that will add some interesting performance points for adding new elements or tomtransition to new songs
agree 100% for me Strymon has my favorite delay pedals but I prefer the Eventide reverbs. Looking at getting an H90 Eventide as my next all in one reverb God tier pedal.
Got this idea to use H90 as a primary FX unit for synths without FX.
What I would like to do is to have something like āprojectsā on H90, where each project would represent a specific synth and then each project would consist of multiple banks of up to 127 programs each, so that the programs can be linked to synth patches 1:1.
Too bad this is unlikely going to be possible with any multi-effect pedal anytime soon. Or am I mistaken?
Couldnāt you just create H90 Playlists with the name of the synth such that when you change Playlists, youāre only using sounds for X or Y Synth? Since you would still have to load your āprojects,ā you just load the corresponding Playlist. You can send MIDI commands from your synth, if capable, to switch Programs on the H90 automatically as long as itās in the correct Playlist.
Thatās what I am asking. It seemed to me from the manual that there is 99 programs and thatās it. What I am imagining is more like 8-16 (projects/synths) Ć 8-16 (banks) Ć 128 (programs).
Using H90 Control we are able to create as many Playlists consisting of 99 Programs as we choose. Treating them as Banks would be just a matter of naming them appropriately. Because of the 99 Program limitation, however, we wouldnāt be able to go all the way to 128, just 99.
Ex -
Moog - Bank1
Moog - Bank2
Sequential - Bank1
Sequential - Bank2
Sequential - Bank3
etc.
OK, I havenāt found out how many user playlists can be created and stored on the pedal. I have seen at least one user report with 6 playlists and some claims of the number of possible playlists being much higher than that, but who knows.
