EHX B9 Organ Machine Review

JohnPerry

Wazmeister said:

@johnperry - do you use a comp before the B9 mate ?

yes

monquixote said:

It's a great sounding pedal but very unreliable.

Putting anything in front of it even a comp makes it glitch out.

that's weird. I found that if i didn't boost and compress the signal going into it, it struggled. Maybe i should try a few combinations

monquixote

JohnPerry said:

Wazmeister said:

@johnperry - do you use a comp before the B9 mate ?

yes

monquixote said:

It's a great sounding pedal but very unreliable.

Putting anything in front of it even a comp makes it glitch out.

that's weird. I found that if i didn't boost and compress the signal going into it, it struggled. Maybe i should try a few combinations

Weird, I put an SP comp in front of the one I had an it make the attack really splattery.

hotpickups

I think I'd rather get a full time organ/keyboard player as I love the sound anyway

How will EHX survive if they can't get their build quality sorted out

juansolo

Quite happily I'd suspect.

Wazmeister

Ive done the usual Waz 'Try Amazon And Send It Back' option and ordered one. It'll be here on the morrow.

Dominic

I think that was a great review

having had one for a while I agree with all your points

quite right that a compressor in front makes a huge improvement

quite right about choosing voiceings carefully which makes a huge difference

Finally .........I would say that plucking a chord rather than a strum also makes huge improvement

Headphones

Sounds good when it works.  I'm on my third. Some have suggested that it's not actually the pedal hardware that fails but the software, so a power cycle fixes it - doesn't match my experience - though since it was swapped I can't be certain of the real cause.

This is not something I'd ever try live, as it's around a one in five shot for silence!

I know the price and complexity is rather different, but a midi interface and organ emulator would be a far better bet. 

I'v had mixed results with a compressor too, it seems to interact with the triggerring in an unghelpful way.

Paul_C

Wazmeister said:

Just bumping this thread, as I quite fancy one of these.

@monquixote - that is a glorious review mate !

Anyone still use one of these ? Im after ye olde Hammond sound... (A la Booker T...)

@johnperry @paul_c - surely one of you guys have owned one ?

I've got one, haven't used it for ages but I'm keeping it for the day when I need it again, though I've bought so many pedals since I stopped using it that I may well find lots of uses for it now