We got a thread about this EHX B9 ped yet?

[van_muddlestein]

Yeah this will be purchased.

[behndy]

I don't really want to bring up the EQD vs EHX theme again but I lied I do. Honestly I thought the Organizer sucked. Probably my least favorite octave I've tried out of many. The POG pedals all sound great and I prefer them to EQD's by a long shot. Nothing against EQD, I just have never flipped a pedal as quickly lol.

This one seems pretty cool, the electric piano tones are intriguing. Also I used to have a POG2 and the tracking was REALLY good, so hopefully that will carry over to this being a newer pedal. $220ish would be a smart price.

innnnteresssssting. i mean. it sounds neat. love to hear it on bass. wish a better company made it?

i dig the Organo. but everyone i know hates the lag and that's what i enjoy on it?

[adapt]

there is no better company, EHX are still the kings and this ironizes it.

EHX will put out anything if mike thinks it sounds cool. what other company with such a huge stake in the effects industry would ever even think of putting out the RTG or steel leather or talking machine or whatever the hell else? EHX swings for the fences and when they connect they fucking CONNECT.

[behndy]

........... youuuuuuu're kidding right? this is troll stuff?

they're fucking AWFUL. they throw so much Has A Kernel Of A Good Idea poo at the wall that OCCASIONALLY something sticks and they, against their best instincts, accidentally make an okay pedal.

i'll give them that?

[adapt]

cool shortsightedness but no dice. EHX, since day one, has been putting out effects people didn't know they absolutely needed until they were made. think of how the creative landscape has changed in the musical realm simply by the hand of EHX. "the" big muff tone, check. first foot controlled analog delay line, check. talkbox, check; flanger, OTA phaser, polyphonic harmonizer, ring modulator, multitrack looper, etc etc. and some of these i'm not even including because I don't know for sure, like the compressor pedal (probably a black finger).

and how many imitators came along trying to make those exact boxes years down the line? how many people are still trying to reinvent the big muff, five decades later? how long was the POG out before another company tried to duplicate it?

and in between all that, y'know, absolutely revolutionary technology, there was all sorts of wacky shit. by the mid 70s, EHX was one of the biggest effects manufacturers on the planet. and they still put out all this esoteric horseshit because they just felt like it. they took a circuit that howard davis designed just so he could listen to mono records in stereo, and put it in a pedal. why? why not? there was some really weird bullshit too, like a triggerable siren. then there was a device that transmitted your guitar to an AM radio. then there was the RTG. then there was about 100 other things they put out because they thought one person might like it. that's really cool. i mean, the 8-step program was straight up designed by an EHX forum member. some guy posted there and said "hey, you should make this, here are the specs." and they did!

this is a pretty rare business model and we're pretty lucky it exists in an industry that we really care about. EHX pretty much revolutionized the industry 50 years ago and now, in 2014, under the same whacked out dude, they're helping push the envelope yet again. kings for 50+ years.

[BitchPudding]

.....JERRY, JERRY, JERRY

But really, this thing sounds pretty dope. I record alot of organ/pianoish sounds in my music so thing is purrrrrfect for that use.


Now I just need a damn orchestra pedal.

[Scruffie]

cool shortsightedness but no dice. EHX, since day one, has been putting out effects people didn't know they absolutely needed until they were made. think of how the creative landscape has changed in the musical realm simply by the hand of EHX. "the" big muff tone, check. first foot controlled analog delay line, check. talkbox, check; flanger, OTA phaser, polyphonic harmonizer, ring modulator, multitrack looper, etc etc. and some of these i'm not even including because I don't know for sure, like the compressor pedal (probably a black finger).

and how many imitators came along trying to make those exact boxes years down the line? how many people are still trying to reinvent the big muff, five decades later? how long was the POG out before another company tried to duplicate it?

and in between all that, y'know, absolutely revolutionary technology, there was all sorts of wacky shit. by the mid 70s, EHX was one of the biggest effects manufacturers on the planet. and they still put out all this esoteric horseshit because they just felt like it. they took a circuit that howard davis designed just so he could listen to mono records in stereo, and put it in a pedal. why? why not? there was some really weird bullshit too, like a triggerable siren. then there was a device that transmitted your guitar to an AM radio. then there was the RTG. then there was about 100 other things they put out because they thought one person might like it. that's really cool. i mean, the 8-step program was straight up designed by an EHX forum member. some guy posted there and said "hey, you should make this, here are the specs." and they did!

this is a pretty rare business model and we're pretty lucky it exists in an industry that we really care about. EHX pretty much revolutionized the industry 50 years ago and now, in 2014, under the same whacked out dude, they're helping push the envelope yet again. kings for 50+ years.

Seconded, Behndy gets a little butt-hurt about it all though.

[MrNovember]

I agree with a lot of that EHX stuff up there (although I don't actually know how many of those circuits EHX really deserves credit for)
They're definitely innovators, but I think they've lost some focus with their like 9 recent ODs and the 80 different variations of the Big Muff.
There are a lot of companies that I respect more than EHX

That being said this pedal looks sick, the Superego is one of my favourite effects, and I want both for some crazy organ droning jams

[retinal orbita]

I wonder if I can score a POG 2 on the craigslist flip with this thing out there.....

Innovative ideas......

[behndy]

since i wasn't around or playing with pedals back when they might have been good, can't speak to that. CAN say straight up muffs are the shittiest fuzzes i've ever used. can NOT get them to sound good.

my TOTALLY JUSTIFIABLE BUTT HURTEDNESS DAMNIT is about almost everything they've made that i have owned was a low quality constantly breaking 3/4 of a intelligently designed ALMOST good pedal. fuck 'em.

but who cares what i think? glad you dig them and they work for you.

......... even though you're wrong.

nee ner nee ner NEE NER.

[spacelordmother]

Tool doesn't use EHX, so why would Behn?

[MrNovember]

I like that every discussion on a ehx product turns into a discussion on why behndy dislikes ehx

[behndy]

lol. TOOL.

i serioussssly don't try to be that guy. my bad.

they just... they're so AWFUL.

[backwardsvoyager]

I don't really want to bring up the EQD vs EHX theme again but I lied I do. Honestly I thought the Organizer sucked. Probably my least favorite octave I've tried out of many. The POG pedals all sound great and I prefer them to EQD's by a long shot. Nothing against EQD, I just have never flipped a pedal as quickly lol.

This one seems pretty cool, the electric piano tones are intriguing. Also I used to have a POG2 and the tracking was REALLY good, so hopefully that will carry over to this being a newer pedal. $220ish would be a smart price.

innnnteresssssting. i mean. it sounds neat. love to hear it on bass. wish a better company made it?

i dig the Organo. but everyone i know hates the lag and that's what i enjoy on it?

i don't really see how the organizer and the B9 are that comparable tbh, the B9 is an organ emulator/modeler, the organizer is a pedal that happens to sound somewhat like some of the sounds an organ can make, regardless of the product description. i wouldn't substitute either for the other.
i thought the organizer was a cool pedal but its one of those things that you have to work your playing around, it's more of an instrument in itself than any normal octaver type pedal. obviously not for everyone but pretty unique.

as for the B9, i'll admit i wasn't really impressed by the demo as far as sounds go but the feature set seems oddly well laid so kudos to that for EHX. i think if anyone was going for a straight organ sound it would be a great purchase but you can do soooo so so so much more with an actual guitar synthesizer which to me seems like the no-brainer if you really want to emulate other instruments convincingly with a guitar.

[Scruffie]

lol. TOOL.

i serioussssly don't try to be that guy. my bad.

they just... they're so AWFUL.

Would it help if we just put them in blank enclosures and told you they were a different brand? We could set up a Freekish Blues style business just for you

I'll agree on the big muff, it is not for me (although the opamp muff is a different matter, that I kinda dig) but the rest of the 50 year history? Yeah they had some QC issues but that was back with the earlier reissues period, they HAVE gotten better, not saying they're bomb proof but it's usually the switch to go if anything and that's mechanical so kinda just... inevitable and it's reflected in the prices. Plus i've had way more boutique repairs than I have EHX so it's not just them, think yo just got unlucky.

The release of like 8 ODs was a bit like... yeah... but Mike Matthews did point out in an interview that... they're popular and they were going to make them money to do the crazy shit like this and they're offering them cheaply so they're affordable for bedroom musicians, back when I was 13 i'd probably have been like doods, $50 klon, I can has the toanz too!

But yeah... this does tend to come up in every EHX thread, along with people not liking the new graphics... get it, but tough shit and I don't give a fuck as long as it sounds good, if it becomes a thing to put your pedal board on a big screen behind you for the audience to watch while you sit in the shadows playing out the way, then it might be a problem and there's always masking tape or sand paper.

Back to the pedal at hand, besides getting this, as they have broken the HOG 2 up in to these little dedicated modules (which I really like) fingers crossed next we'll be seeing a strings & pads kinda pedal, seems logical as that's the other sound the HOG does.