06/12/06

Chop Shop owner/producer Scott Humphrey uses award-winning plug-in bundle to produce Rob Zombie's latest album

(June 14, 2006) — Eventide, demonstrating achievements in tone and clarity established with its hardware processors, has brought that sonic expertise to the digital domain of the TDM platform. The latest Eventide bundle, Anthology II, has been put into service at The Chop Shop, a predominantly analog studio, owned by producer Scott Humphrey. There, Rob Zombie's latest album was recently produced by Humphrey and engineered by Chris Baseford, using the Eventide Anthology II bundle to enhance the largely analog palette.

According to Ray Maxwell, Eventide vice president of sales and marketing, the Anthology II bundle taps the heritage of Eventide's award-winning hardware processors, while offering seamless integration with Pro Tools. "The Anthology II bundle offers fifteen great plug-ins including two new configurable channel strips," he said. "All the new equalizers and filters are 48-bit double precision and represent the gold standard of production tools."

The Chop Shop, located in the Hollywood Hills, has risen in popularity due to the excellent work being done there and because of the comfortable and private working environment it offers. The studio is heavily reliant on analog hardware, with racks full of old tube gear. To have them embrace a digital system, the plug-ins had to provide the richness and color of sounds to match the analog processors.

"For us to use digital plug-ins in the studio and have the sound perform flawlessly is a major statement," said Chris Baseford. "Having a plug-in equivalent to the Eventide hardware is a real plus, especially when working at studios that might not have specific units available, like the old H949s, for example."

The Eventide Anthology II bundle for the TDM platform features fifteen plug-ins, giving artists and engineers unprecedented production capabilities in one affordable package. Six new plug-ins: E-Channel(tm), Ultra-Channel(tm), EQ65 Filter Set, EQ45 Parametric Equalizer, Precision Time Align(tm) and Quadravox(tm) join the nine plug-ins that comprised the original Anthology bundle: H910, H949, Instant Phaser(tm), Instant Flanger(tm), Omnipressor(r), Eventide Reverb, Octavox(tm), H3000 Band Delays(tm) and H3000 Factory(tm).

On the Rob Zombie sessions, Baseford used the H3000 Band Delays on some of the vocal and guitar parts. "They did exactly what the hardware version I know and love does," Baseford said. "And Band Delay on the H3000 is my all-time favorite delay. The amazing thing is that the plug-in is as good as the hardware version, but more accessible and easier to use."

The Eventide Anthology II plug-in bundle is available for a list price of $1,195. Anthology owners may upgrade to Anthology II for $299. Clockworks Legacy(tm) owners may upgrade for $499. MassivePack, Octavox, Eventide Reverb or H3000 Band Delays owners may upgrade to Anthology II for $799. Anthology II is available through authorized Eventide dealers and at www.eventide.com.