“It so incredibly sophisticated with its power and vibe duo that you just forgive it’s digital”: Eventide Riptide review

Suppose the title Eventide and what involves mind is the company’s necessary-lauded H90 Harmonizer and H9 Max processors. 

I comprehend it used to be a NASA-sized endeavor to cram their sizable multi-outcomes and pitch-perfect harmonizer technology into those pedalboard-pleasant stompboxes, but now Eventide has offered the Riptide – a more down-to-earth, compact 2-in-1 pedal with an onboard overdrive and Uni-Vibe invent that can even be hurry in stereo. 

Eventide is making an doughty transfer by combining two basic outcomes – outcomes that many musicians most continuously use as standalone stompboxes – but more intriguingly, two outcomes that the company doesn’t hold any bragging rights to but. So how does the Riptide fare? Learn on. 

Such as the pedals in Eventide’s streamlined dot9 sequence, Riptide’s stepped forward efficiency is buried below the hood and simplified to excellent ragged-fashioned knob twisting and button pushing on its surface. Its controls encompass Vibe (Mix for chorus/vibrato), Pace and Intensity, for “Vibe” – while the “Pressure” section entails Pressure, Tone and Stage… all easy to take hold of up to now. 

The bonus right here is that Riptide has dual voicings per invent which are accessed by pressing the LED buttons stunning above their corresponding Pressure and Vibe footswitches. 

In Rating mode, the respective Pressure and Vibe footswitches simply turn the implications on and off, and what’s necessary is the footswitches are dual-hurry latching or non eternal. The pedal presents just a few bypass alternate recommendations with buffered, relay, DSP+FX or murder dry, and to boot presents MIDI give a resolve to over TRS or USB.

The rear panel has a mono/stereo swap and guitar/line diploma swap together with enter and stereo output jacks, exp jack and USB enter. In some draw, Riptide’s “Snatch-up” mode lets avid gamers dial of their sound when toggling between presets/parameters, and more preset bettering alternate recommendations come in the usage of Eventide Scheme Supervisor (EDM) scheme.

Off the bat, the Riptide sounds so incredibly sophisticated with its power and vibe duo that you just forgive its digital coronary heart ably replicating an analog circuit-latory machine. Each and every outcomes hold a special texture with out a doubt, and a necessary faster response than any vintage unit, and it’s kinda frosty to hold both in one pedal.

In Rating mode, the respective Pressure and Vibe footswitches simply turn the implications on and off, and what’s necessary is the footswitches are dual-hurry latching or non eternal. The pedal presents just a few bypass alternate recommendations with buffered, relay, DSP+FX or murder dry, and to boot presents MIDI give a resolve to over TRS or USB.

The rear panel has a mono/stereo swap and guitar/line diploma swap together with enter and stereo output jacks, exp jack and USB enter. In some draw, Riptide’s “Snatch-up” mode lets avid gamers dial of their sound when toggling between presets/parameters, and more preset bettering alternate recommendations come in the usage of Eventide Scheme Supervisor (EDM) scheme.

Off the bat, the Riptide sounds so incredibly sophisticated with its power and vibe duo that you just forgive its digital coronary heart ably replicating an analog circuit-latory machine. Each and every outcomes hold a special texture with out a doubt, and a necessary faster response than any vintage unit, and it’s kinda frosty to hold both in one pedal.

What Pressure also can lack in warmth, it makes up in heaps of thick and layered crunch that can well perhaps arrive distortion together with a elephantine-sounding bottom cease. It’s more detailed and wealthy than most guitar processors that supply a multitude of overdriven colors.

Riptide’s Green-Vibe sounds tender and expressive, and while it doesn’t hold the complexity of a vintage Shin-ei Uni-Vibe, the Riptide spins with a pronounced psychedelic swirl. I also dug the Red-Vibe voicing that generates a deep liquid swirl, chewy chorus and throbby section sounds.

But what makes the Riptide head and shoulders above plenty of pedals is its ability to hurry its Uni-Vibe in stereo and your ability to listen to the nice nuances of being in a role to swap the expose of outcomes. Used to be I swept away? Yeah, it’s likely you’ll well perhaps direct that.

Specs

• PRICE: $299 / £329
• TYPE: Overdrive and Uni-Vibe
• CONTROLS: Vibe, Pace, Intensity, Pressure, Tone, Stage, individual footswitches for Pressure and Vibe, guitar line diploma swap
• FEATURES: 2x overdrives, 2x Vibes, elephantine stereo operation, five onboard presets, 127 more available through Eventide Scheme Supervisor (EDM), Midi compatibility
• CONNECTIONS: 1/4″ enter, 2x 1/4″ outputs (mono/stereo), expression pedal enter, mini USB, center unfavorable DC enter
• POWER: 9V DC, drawing 300mA 
• CONTACT: Eventide Audio