Eventide H9 Go-To Live Setup

Hi, ZuluFunk. Looks like you have all your bases covered. The thing I love about the H9 is the ability to save different preset lists depending on what you need to do. For example, I have a Jazz preset list for certain gigs and a Rock preset list for others, and then one for experimental sounds.

 

I know a lot of musicians that use the app during live use. Some people love it, others do not. Personally, I've never had an issue using it. Whether you use it live or not, I do recommend doing housekeeping with it. You can create preset lists based on your gig and save them. For example, I have one playlist for rock songs, another for jazz, another for R&B/hip-hop. I can easily load them to the unit and then have all of my presets in setlist order. That way if there is ever an issue with the app (iPad dies, etc), my H9 is already preloaded and ready to go. You can hold down the "Active" foot switch and then use the two foot switches to switch between presets. Alternatively, you can pick up an OX9 which gives you two additional footswitch buttons and really opens up what you can do.

 

Is there any Patchsharing site for us Bassplayers, other than the eventide forum.?
Something like Googledr/dropb. ?
I mostly use it to get some movement on synthtype sounds and also for chord/harmony stuff.
Need some new ideas

 

Midi controller would work for setting up presets with out have to mess with rearranging the presets on the pedal wouldn't it?

 

Yes. i´m using ES-5 with mine. works really well

 

And you could work across pedals. So if you have an H9, and a some other MIDI controlled pedals you can make patches that feature settings on all of 'em.

 

I use a Pitchfactor and get it down to 2-3 most useful banks for a performance. That way I'm rarely more than one stomp away from the sound I want.

I tried using a midi controller but I had a hard time getting the PF into bypass mode while sending a patch to another pedal. Maybe I should just work up some clean patches or something...

 

Even if you only have one H9.....get some sort of small midi controller. That one piece of gear will completely get you to all your presets as fast as you can imagine. With two H9s....it really gets useful....Midi pedals can be smaller than the H9 itself. You can still use the foot switch aux options like a DigiTech FX3 with a midi controller connected.....but for me just having a midi controller for my first H9 I purchased really made a huge live use improvement....so huge I bought a second H9.......endless presets available...the biggest issue i had was figuring out that you had to select a preset using the midi controller and then save it on the controller...using a foot switch or the actual H9 I wasn't able to save the preset to my controller.....bypass functions and tuner are right there too....use the midi controller to scroll and save. Easy peasy now.