This one major advancement inevitably leads to tools that are paramount to modern recording like Auto Tune, Melodyne, time stretching, etc. But what really makes it so special? Before this unit if you wanted to speed up time, you also had to speed up the pitch. Interestingly enough, the H910 Harmonizer was first used to speed up the dialog of older sitcoms, like I Love Lucy, without changing the pitch of the voice.

In 1974 they developed the H910 Harmonizer, one of their most notable products, which was the first digital pitch shifting device.

Their control room wasn’t big enough to fit a tape op so studio owner Steven Katz commissioned Richard Factor to create a device that would allow him to locate the tape to a specific time. In his letter he declared the H3000 'the best designed and most enjoyable effects unit ever.'Įventide started out of the basement of the Sound Exchange, a recording studio located in midtown Manhattan.

Not only did Brian Eno love his Eventide H3000, but he loved it so much that he took the time to actually write to Eventide to congratulate them on designing it. When one of the most influential and well regarded electronic musicians praises your effects unit as the best it should really hold some weight.

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