66 Programs designed to be a useful introduction to H90, and a handy bag of tools for any recording session.

Contents are as follows:

1 – Deco Flanger — aping a Strymon Deco

2 – Daily Driver — mildly saturated overdrive

3 – Edge Lord — edge of breakup crunch

4 – Swirling Leslie — auto rotary emulation

5 – 80s Jazz Rotary — warm warbly rotary sim

6 – Jimmy Page Leslie — I used to use this on the solo in Good Times Bad Times, it’s pretty cool with fuzz

7 – Landau — Mike Landau style digital delay

8 – Luke — Steve Lukather style 80s delay and slapback

9 – The Edge — U2 delay

10 – Two Face Fuzz — stacked fuzz

11 – 1986 — chorus and delay

12 – Plate Reverbs — short plate and a long plate. Long is off by default

13 – Voice Box — emulation of a talk box tone with delay

14 – Pink Vibes — atmospheric vibe

15 – Panned Tremolo — a tinkered trem that’s pretty useful

16 – Harmonic Bedroom — harmonic trem and room reverb

17 – Dynaflanger — nasal honky flanger with verb

18 – Summer’s Drive — Andy Summers tones

19 – Lifeson Waves — late 70s early 80s Rush modulation. Both presets on gives you the Spirt of Radio thing

20 – Buckley Graceverb — that quadraverb parallel reverb thing

21 – Comfortably Gilmour — Numb solo delay. Ducked delay off by default

22 – Gilmour Muff — it’s not a million miles off a Big Dave Muff

23 – LA2 and Optical Comps — studio compressors, one parallel and coloured the other transparent. They work well together, too

24 – Acoustic Strum — some EQ, compression and modulation trickery for electric guitar strummers

25 – Binson Echorec — drum delay with a light reverb to add reflections

26 – Binson Echorec 2 — from an old H9 preset that still sounds very cool

27 – EVH Delay Width — 1984 and 5150 tones

28 – Two Phasers — updated – improved Small Stone, and a warmer more subtle Maestro phaser.

29 – Flangers — one subtle, one less so

30 – Choruses — Dimension and CE2

31 – Fibonacci Oilcan — a classic

32 – Swells and Clouds — one for the Praise and Worship crowd

33 – Airport Music — Brian Eno stuff. Could also be used in paying homage to the Big Guy

34 – Vangelis Verb — not suitable for use in a church

35 – Pads and Crystals — safe for use in church

36 – Swirling Clouds — also approved for church

37 – Old Tape Delay — I’ll let you guess

38 – Echoes in Space — kind of Space Echo adjacent

39 – Subtle Echoes — two gentle background echoes to give a little depth to your tone

40 – If Shimmer is Your Thing — only for church

41 – Fourth Harmony — E major and E minor harmonizers

42 – Gm Fifth Harmony — will reject your pentatonics

43 – Spring Reverbs — two reverbs that may dispel the myth that Eventide’s spring verb is good for nothing

44 – Frippersonics — synth Robert Fripp 80s stuff with King Crimson

45 – Frippertronics — delay and pitch madness

46 – Mod Filter Funk — trying to get H90 to do a 70s filter mod

47 – Ghost Mod — atmospheric modulation utilizing the much overlooked Undulator algorithm

48 – Big Hair Guitars – put some metal guitars through this and shred

49 – Walking on the Moon — don’t just play a Dm7 and hope it will be ok. The correct chord is a Dm11: x53533

50 – Cornish CC-1 — perhaps getting a little niche here, but it’s a great sound. Blend of clean and drive and compression, cuts really well in a mix

51 – Jack White Lead — that heavy lower octave fuzz thing.

52 – UniVibe — closest I can get to a classic vibe. Using a compressor here to control the top end sheen

53 – Faux Rhodes — an approximation of the throb and modulation from a Fender Rhodes. Use a light delay with this to maximize the effect

54 – Airy Nimbus — Andy Timmons Halo delay

55 – Headhunter Synth — Herbie Hancock style funk synth

56 – Power Synth Solo — great for those moments when you want to look as cool as the keyboard player

57 – Hall Reverbs — small hall / big hall, using the SP2016 algorithm. Mix is controlled by expression pedal

58 – Cooder Slap Oilcan — Ry Cooder’s slap back delay, into a murky oil can style modulated delay

59 – Mr Jangles — 12 string emulation

60 – Variatone — BB King’s #2 setting for some spank and sparkle, the #3 setting for some bass cut and mid push.

61. Tremriver – rotary and undulator with sympathetic modulation speeds that stop just short of making you feel seasick

62. Dark Echoes – ducked delay being treated with extreme spring coil effects. Not noticeably a spring reverb, more weird dark artifacts on a nice warm delay.

63. War For Drugs – ambient reverb being treated to some undulation for a syrupy throbbing effect, somewhat reminiscent of War on Drugs first album.

64. Ultrawide – a pleasing stereo width effect using UltraTap for a slapback and an SP plate reverb

65. Pale Light – this is the tone from U2’s Mysterious Ways, provided you have a little overdrive and a bit of additional modulation. The program itself has inserts 1 and 2 on: Flanger in parallel and Phaser in series, so configure the routing before using this one.

66. Run Like Hell – a delay set for this reliable pub banger, set parallel mono with a flanger insert 1. You might want to mess around with the routing before using this one.

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I will make the odd update from time to time. Feel free to provide comments on anything that might be missing / could be improved.