Eventide Eclipse Makes Your Guitar Sound Like Anything But Itself
Eventide is maybe most famous for it's radical harmonizer effect, which gained popularity when massive rack rigs roamed the Earth. The new Eclipse processor hearkens back to those days, but includes all the greatest effects from Eventide's long tenure as a high-end effects designer to make for an incredibly versatile unit.
Eventide's Alan Chaput plays through the Eclipse in this video and shows how combining harmonizer effects with with a step sequencer, reverbs and flanges can result in effects you won't think a guitar could create.
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[ALAN CHAPUT DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE FOR THE GUITAR]
ALAN CHAPUT: Hey. This is Alan for Eventide, and you’re watching Gearwire.Com. We’re here today checking out the Eclipse, which is a greatest-hits processor from Eventide’s last 37 years, featuring sounds from the H3000 on forward. It’s got a lot of cool sounds in there and it’s equally at home in the studio as in your live guitar rig on the stage. Of course, Eventide is famous for the harmonizer effect, and we’re going to check out one of the factory presets. This is called “Ether harp” and it features eight different harmonized voices so you play one note [ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING THE “ETHER HARP’ PRESET] and that’s what you get.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING THE “ETHER HARP” PRESET]
It’s a lot of fun. You can get really creative stuff just from plugging the guitar into this box and playing because you get things that you normally wouldn’t even think of. It completely gives you new ideas which is something that I find really cool about this.
Let’s check out another sound that completely takes what you put in and gives you something different on the other side. This is “Scary Movie”.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING THE “SCARY MOVIE” PRESET]
There’s a lot of really unique effects in the Eclipse that you just won’t find in other effects processors, and a lot of these are the type of thing that you play through them and you get new ideas. It’s a creative tool. So let’s check this sound out.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING ANOTHER PRESET]
That was a lot of fun. I don't even know what I was playing but Eclipse made it sound pretty cool. Here’s a long ambient, chorused reverb sound.
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING ANOTHER PRESET]
[ALAN CHAPUT PLAYS GUITAR THROUGH THE EVENTIDE ECLIPSE USING THE “PHASED PLEX” PRESET]
That’s a preset called the “Phased Plex”. These are all factory presets that come with Eclipse and they’re just starting points so you can use these to create your own sounds as well. Check out the Eclipse at Eventide.Com. There’s a tone of possibilities you can get, it’s a lot of fun, and thanks for checking it out on Gearwire.Com.
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