Guitar creation using Eventide H3000

Short piece of music I made the other day. The intro is based around a modified patch on my Eventide H3000 D/SX. The patch in question is the 'crystal echoes' patch. For me, this is the classic H3000 sound and it's been used on tons of recordings. I think The Edge from U2 and Brian Eno use it a lot for a sort of 'shimmer' sound.

The guitar solo is a mix of the audio from the two video takes you can see. At some points both guitars can be heard at others, just one. The video roughly follows which guitar is at the forefront of the mix at that particular time.

Anyways......, kit used
Eventide H3000 D/SX
Boss GT-pro
Boss DR-660 drum machine
Roland JV-1080 (with Vocal expansion board)
Logic Audio Express

Fender Roadhouse strat
Charvel So-Cal
Schecter bass

All the best for 2011!!!!............. I hope you get more time playing music this year than I did last year!!!!!

Nicky

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• Eventide
• H3000
• Fender
• Charvel
• So
• Cal
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• lead
• solo
• Roland
• JV1080
• Eno
• U2
• Edge
• shimmer
• effect
• fast
• tapping
• bending
• heavy
• ambient
• Axe
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[FluffyMexican64]

what mode or arpeggios r you basing your solo on, im really diggin the feeling it gives off.

[Nickstermc]

Hi there, just had a look again at the video and trying to remind myself what I was doing that day!! E Lydian mode is pretty much what is going on in the solo.

[samsung5413]

Nick, Great tones! BtW....I see you have an Akais300xl in the rack. What do you use it for sampling recording or live? I have one full of dust & would like to get inspired:) Please let me know, Thanks for sharing

[Nickstermc]

@samsung5413 I bought the Akai years ago when I was a poor student (Student Loan !!) but haven't used it for ages. I used it a lot for drum loops (timestretching etc) back then but Logic does a lot of that for me now. It spent the last 10 years in my basement as a very expensive door stop!! But I fired it up recently and it still works great! So I stuck it back in the rack. I've been mucking about with creating ambiences, sampling them and playing them from a keyboard.

[freak49]

This is cool stuff!! ...love that Eventide

what are you using for the drums??

[Nickstermc]

The main drum sound comes from a pattern I made in my Boss DR660. I created various loops in Logic with it and there's a load of effects added too at various points.

[lmpendingDoom]

omfg this is beautiful

[hogwild6161]

That sounds like a hug!!!!

[buster5731]

OK SOUNDS COOL NOW MAKE A VIDEO AND PLAY IT EXACTLY LIKE YOU DID WITHOUT ALL YOUR RICHBOY EQUIPMENT AND LETS SEE HOW GOOD YOU ARE AS A GUITARIST ALL FX NO GUITAR SKILLS BRO YOU SHOULDA SPENT YOUR MONEY ON LESSONS WITH ALL YOUR EQUIPMENT A 2 YEAR OLD COULD SOUND LIKE YNGWEI.

[rammsteinrulz16]

Oh look a candy green Charvel!

Thats 2 Youtubers Ive seen with those things ^^

[reflekshun]

This shit is cosmic, that H3000 box is godly. You are also quite godly with your playing lol

[QuantikMusic]

This is crazy!!! Love the sounds in this!!!

[Stratoale2008]

Yeahhh, this is beautiful piece of music, no doubt!!!!

[relapse808]

I love the atmosphere, but seriously the boss drum machine sounds shitty, get a new drum machine.

[stratocat74]

You are a star!

Damn good and inspired work.

[Lingueno]

It's 2AM in night i should go to bed, but i think i will listen it some more like 2 hours :3

[afterthefox7]

nice gear

[oswa0714006]

GREAT TONE