H9 Presets
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This H9 preset was inspired by Jimi Hendrix's And The Gods Made Love from his Electric Ladyland album. You "play" it with an expression pedal, the hotknob, or your guitar but it is intended to be inherently unstable regardless of what you do. The only way to stop it or fade it out is to deactivate the preset with the left footswitch or turn the volume all the way down by holding the left footswitch and then turning the volume all the way down with the hotknob. 8/30/2022
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"Wipe" the infinite looping by sweeping the midpoint of the expression pedal travel.
Interesting places to HotSwitch abound here. Some examples:
Feedback = 99 to Feedback = FREEZE (loops on ice)
Feedback = 99 to Feedback = 0 (loop aging)
The 'sweet spot' between Gravity = 0-1 & Inv-Gravity = 0-1 (loop bends/chops)
Throttling up Mod Depth to full (loop decimation sweep)
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The QuadraVox algorithm is great for all kinds of pseudo-fingerpicking and added note effects; with or without constrained-to-scale pitch shifts. Pick cleanly, limit your out-of-scale passing tones, and stick with octaves & fifths (or fourths) for simple 'chord' work.
In this preset, 4 additional notes ascend with equal spacing, from +2nd to +5th. The far end of the expression pedal changes that note sequence from a 5th to an octave above. Over the range of the EXP PED, the groups of notes will change together, but not perfectly in sync with each other. That adds even more variety to the added note sequences.
Here, it's built around an E minor scale, and that works well with single note lines, dyads, and 'power chords'. I like to adapt this technique to some of the more exotic scales available, and switch the directions around to fit the song context. Pitch A,B,C, and D will be played in order, in alternating channels. A+C on the left, and B+D on the right.
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Square tremolo.
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Strum-like glitches.
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A tap tempo enabled reverb/delay. Sounds like a whip cracking. Good for note/chord stabs. Expression changes delay time and size.
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Pedal steel-like bends that aren't confined to any genre. Envelope control over pitch bend.
Change Pitch A, Pitch B, and Mod Depth together for effects ranging from subtle doubling to extreme pitch sweeps. To land at unison, match the negative pitch shifter values to the positive Mod Depth value. Adjust Mod Sens to your playing style, and desired frequency of effect. [Inspired by an ADR III FX module]
I added some optional EXP PED control to fade in dotted 1/8 against 1/4 note echoes.
(It's possible to "shuffle" the shifted repeats with active expression pedal movements.)
Delay A Heel: NO DLY
Delay B Heel: NO DLY
Feedback Heel: 0
Delay A Toe: DOTTED 1/8
Delay B Toe: 1/4
Feedback Toe: 50
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Natural, 'random' vibrato effect. Use an expression pedal to fade the effect in.
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Recreation of the legendary Binson Echorec inspired by this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du4xm2IG53I
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I once traveled to far off lands to find the best Binson Echorec H9 presets in the world. I'm posting three of these presets with a total of seven beautifully cacophonous delays. Use an expression pedal and the hotswitch to get at them. Most, if not all of these seven, were originally created by Brock (it's tough to recall which ones) and I just tweaked them a bit (as should you). Thanks to Brock for his endless generosity. 9/7/2022
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This is a typical mid-scooped tonestack setting for a BF Fender amp. I'm using this in one H9 and a spring reverb preset (SPRING HSTREM - also posted here) in another H9 as a silent practice rig. I plug a pair of headphones into the right and left outs of the second H9 and boost the output level in SPRING HSTREM to about 12 to 17dB (to taste). Light a cigar. Pour some scotch. And play into the wee smalls of the morning. 9/7/2022
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There's a slapback sync delay here before 1 octave & 2 octave upward shifts. Everything pre-pitch shifter is at a minimum. Nearly everything post-shifter and in the feedback loop is maxed out. It ends up as blooming, almost metallic slices of octave shimmers.
I had the expression pedal mapped 0-50 on the Pitch-Decay, for a subtle to medium effects. Ramp up to 100 for more extreme and in-your-face effects. My favorite technique of late is mapping the HotSwitch to change Pitch-Decay at 50 to the FRZ position (Pitch+Verb).
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Clean octave down, octave up, and 2 octaves up arp-delay.
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Here is a fuzz preset on the heavier side of things. Activating the hotswitch will boost the output level enough for a lead. 9/7/2022
