ANAHEIM, California, January 20, 2005 - The band Garbage has long been known as a pioneer in the recording studio and an integral part of its success has been its trusted gear, particularly its Eventide effects processors. It comes as no surprise that Garbage is an early adopter of the new Eventide H8000A, a valuable component of the band's upcoming album, Bleed Like Me, thanks in large part to its inventive engineer Billy Bush.
Bush, who has worked closely with Garbage for the past eight years engineering the group's past two albums, in addition to the upcoming release, was excited to incorporate the H8000A into the band's legendary Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin. "We've been using Eventide effects forever. We have three H3000s in the studio, use an Eclipse™ for live shows, and I have one of the first Orville™ units ever made - probably serial number 00002," joked Bush. In preparation for the new album's recording sessions, he sought to take his Orville to the next level and jumped at the recently announced factory upgrade program to remanufacture it into an H8000A.
"I saw the upgrade offer on Eventide's website and it was the perfect answer," said Bush. "I do a lot of analog processing, so the H8000A was the obvious choice. The H8000A gave me the horsepower I needed to run more complex algorithms using both processing engines together on massive effects. It's a real workhorse with all the power and functionality I sought in the upgrade."
The H8000A also impressed Bush with its updated interface and its nearly fifteen hundred preset-algorithms. Preset navigation is vastly improved by the new search functionality allowing sort by number, effect type, source type, or alphabetically. Bush lauded, "The new interface and routing functions make it much easier to navigate and the effects sound truly amazing."
In addition to the recent H8000A upgrade, Bush has been an early adopter of Eventide's fast-growing plug-ins products for Digidesign TDM Pro Tools. "I picked up the Band Delays plug-in this fall and it became a quick staple to my work," said Bush. "All the Eventide Pro Tools plug-ins are the bomb. They've got all the functions of the hardware units I've used for years in a software application without compromising a thing."
Founded in 1971 in New York City, Eventide is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital audio processing products for recording, broadcast, and live performance. Headquartered in Little Ferry, NJ, Eventide invented the H910, the first Harmonizer® effects processor in 1975, and introduced the H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer effects processor in 1988. Visit Eventide on the Web at www.eventide.com.
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