ROB WARMOWSKI: Hey everybody. It’s Rob from Gearwire again in the show floor of NAMM 2007. It is day four, we’re all very tired but we’re not tired enough to skip Eventide, one of the finest names in signal processing over the years, has come out with two new stompboxes, and we knew we had to come by and check these out. Dan is a DSP engineer for Eventide. Thank you. I know the name of the company. I know I know it. Dan, let’s talk a little bit about these stompboxes. First of all, what are they?

DAN GILESPIE: Well, we’ve got two boxes that we’re announcing at the show. The first one is a delay, 10 delay effects. The second one is a modulation box. Basically, the idea behind these boxes in the first place was we’re going to take the algorithms we had in the H8000, in the Eclipse, a huge guitar box, and move them onto the floor, allowing people to actually use them just right there on the floor. So, the idea is the first one is this delay. It’s got 10 different delay models are very standard, you know, digital, vintage delay, tape echo, modulation delay, you know, chorus delays and that sort of thing as well as a duck delay which is more like the, you know, it gets out of your way as you’re playing. It comes back as a --

On the next row column, I actually have five other delays, some more even tight effects. Filter plugin, band delays both have modulated filters. They kind of give you a deeper more effect or it can be set to a very kind of clean sort of swimmy thing as well as multitap which, you know, I know, we -- you know guys that Eventide is famous for these big lush sort of delays. That’s your multitap, as well as reverse delay which, you know, a very popular effect.

There’s also going to have a looper, that which will be a a 12-second looper with Varispeed as some of those other things.

ROB WARMOWSKI: You know I noticed for any type of stompbox that has that many ins and outs, we got to ask what’s going on.

DAN GILESPIE: Back here it’s stereo in and out, switchable of course between line and guitar level so you’l be able to run any kind of instruments through it as well as put it in through the effects loop of the amp. Also, you’ll be able to plug in on the console, do some front-of-house stuff, maybe put on the vocals so it really does live at home in a lot of places. It’s also got room for an expression pedal, if you’ll notice. Obviously, you can modulate any of these parameters, any of these knobs have them be controlled by the expression pedal, as well as the aux switch to allow you to plug in three extra switches to do some more interesting things with preset loading. There’s an infinte repeat, tap tempo, that sort of thing.

ROB WARMOWSKI: So, the pedal is so cool, you’re going to use it with the pedal.

DAN GILESPIE: Absolutely. The pedal has got its own pedal.

ROB WARMOWSKI: What’s with the USB port?

DAN GILESPIE: USB is basically want to keep this thing future proof. Y, in case we anything we want to update in the future, you’ll be able too download new updates and plug them in.

ROB WARMOWSKI: Terrific. So let’s hear some of these right now.

[GUITARIST PERFORMING WITH GUITAR RUNNING THROUGH EVENTIDE PEDALS]