Feeding the Eventide H9 with two mono synths?

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Hi,

i am asking myself what happens if i feed the Eventide H9 Harmonizers stereo input with two different mono synths (e.g. Dark Energy and Mopho) and treat them with some shimmer reverb or one of their pitchfactor algorithms or whatever. What kind of signal might come out? Would it be just some all mashed up stereo signal or two mono signals i could use independently from each other?

Thanks for your guessings, your knowledge or simply sharing your experience if you already tried this one out (with the H9, the Space, or the Strymon Blue Sky/Big Sky, or…).

hny

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I have an H9 and a Big Sky and I’m 99.9999% sure you can’t do that unless you want two hard panned signals with reverb bleeding on the other side.

A cheap mixer with two aux send is your best bet.

Edit: I was partially wrong for the H9:

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Thanks for the link, thats really helpful, and exactly what i was looking for. Too bad for shimmer and blackhole (but i already guessed that). Hellooo crystals and diatonics!

I definitely had the idea of routing the wet mono signals to the mixer, do you think they will receive some hard panning by the Dual Mono algorithms? My mixer only has two aux and i need those to give them drums their space.

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I’d have to try it out but it should work with dual mono algorythms. (Not sure about the wet signal bleeding to the other channel though).

Got a Mackie 1604 after I got fed up by limitations of having only one aux out on my old mixer. Very happy with its routing flexibilty.

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thanks for trying, this will help me a lot!

i just got an Soundcraft epm 12, good equip, but with limitations. Looking for a 1642/1604 for quite a while, but can not find any at reasonable prices. For some reason people are just not selling theirs. And buying both the H9 and a Mackie mixer on the first market is definitely beyond my budget.

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Just a follow up with a question. Currently with Yamaha MG 10 with one AUX mono send and I would like to send this to my Eventide H9 and return stereo FX back to my mixer. Can anynone help what cable to use. I assume mono out from AUX send from the mixer with two mono cables into IN L /R to H9, then stereo L/R back to channels 9/10 on the mixer ? Thanks a lot.

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You only need a single mono jack cable from the aux send to the left in on the H9, then two of the same cable out and into the mixer.
As you are coming in to a mixer channel remember to keep the aux fully off or you’ll get a feedback loop. (which can be interesting)

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Much appreciated! I did try that, but I get only sfx in one channel on the mixer. I still hope for nice stereo sfx - for delay and shimmer :wink: My shop recommended mono out off Aux Send to mono in l + r into input on the H9 and the the H( will send stereo out L+R back to my mixer’s 2 channels.

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I’ll check with mine tomorrow and let you know. I use the H9 in the same way as you but with a little Mackie 802vlz3.

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I am pretty sure that it works the way @OverUnity described. My H9 is hooked up like this using only the channel 1 input and stereo out right now.

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Mine as well. I don’t remember precisely but I think the H9 has settings concerning mono/stereo routing. Have a look in the control app.

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Thanks. You are correct, got it working. Mono in to L H9, stereo out to the mix’s channels. It looks like I had either mono preset or went to R of the H9 and was listening everything centered and mono which confused me at first. Cheers !

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