I got my first Electro-Harmonix pedal in 1982 (1970s Small Stone for $30). This is by far the best EHX demo I've ever seen in store, online, or anywhere else. Fabulous playing!
Bought one today, played with it in Guitar Center for about 15 minutes before dropping the $230 down to own it, it sounded so bad ass that a small crowd had gathered around me wondering what the hell I was using. The Deep Purple, Beatles, Doors and Led Zeppelin tones are dead on! Great for clearly played notes and chords., not for shredding on lead solos or punk and thrasher metal.
Simply amazing playing by Bill Ruppert. It is not easy playing a guitar and making it sound like an organ, even with a fabulous pedal like this or the B9. You have to completely restructure your chords and melodies. Impressive.
This pedal is my secret weapon for my clean sounds. I have it on the Mello Flutes setting w/ the organ mix around 9-10 o'clock in front of a reverb and when it rings out you hear the organ swell in. It's so magical
8 years old and this video still gets comments...just shows how great the demo is! I picked up the C9 a few weeks ago after watching this video. Long, long way to go before I sound like Bill Ruppert.
It is an amazing specialty pedal... But I am not fooled.... You are an extremely good player and the material you are playing is making that thing shine WAY more than most of us could.
🍻🍺🍻 250 bucks , not cheap but a lot of fun playing through this , please lets us know how is it, i am planing to buy this and the strings one very soon, i am saving,greetings
@@Toxodeth1984 I have one and it's fun to play around with. I've also made a playlist of songs that have the organ sound (aside from the examples in this video). The idea is to finger the chords like an organ player would.
Where was this stuff back in the 60's 70's 80's 90's and the first ten years of the 2000's ?!?!? It's so awesome I can't get over this and the B9 units!!!
That third sound --- like a Farfisa or a Vox --- would be good for a guitarist who always envied Ray Manzarek of The Doors. He died at the age of 74 in 2013, I think.
I fancy myself as EHX's biggest fan. They build stuff that is so much fun to play with yet, this stuff can be a life saver. If your keyboard player doesn't show up, you can get by for an intro or as another layer in the mix. The fact that they keep the prices competitive in a greedy world speaks volumes about them.
Best product demo I can imagine! Loved that you chose the Doors to showcase the 60's sound... And Deep Purple for the lord Purple. Your skills are off the charts!
I have the , key 9 , the Mel 9 , and the B9 For home recording they are an absolute game changer Thanks Guys I think the Synth 9 will be next , cheers.
the Mellotron sound is incredible! I saw that he plays guitar as he would play organ,that needs to be a very good guitarist to use it totally (very probably),playing accords and melodies in the same time.This demonstrator is a god when he plays.very strong!
This demo was done almost 5 years ago, but what a great demonstration! Just perfect song fragments to demo the presets. I like your fat Strat frets too.
I've acquired one recently to use predominantly for recording purposes, and it is a very convincing pedal. I'll be damned if anyone will be able to tell the difference on tape. Going into a real mic'd Plexi (lower gain settings) and it sounds amazing, but it really, really benefits from a compressor pedal behind it or in front of it; I prefer it behind it, but either way can work. It's a very dynamic pedal, reacts to string attack, but put a compressor in the chain and it's perfect, cleans up very nicely. Love it.
COMBINE THE B9 AND THE C9 IN ONE PEDAL !!! You put digital control knobs so that you can program and save your custom banks of tones. You add one footswitch to go up the banks, one footswitch to go down the banks, and one jack input for a standard expression pedal to control the rotary (or whichever other parameter which one should obviously control with an expression pedal). And you have it ! The ultimate "must have" Organ Machine for guitarists.
This is why they offer BOTH units so they can make enourmous profits as some will most like just purchase just the B9 or C9 units. But yeah, i feel you it would be a novel idea if they "should" offer a unit such as this for our MultiEffects Unit pedal board daisy chain layout.
I have the B9 on my board, and it's sensationally inspirational. This just seems to be another level again. Electro-Harmonix, you've realised a dream I've had for effects this good that I've had ever since I started playing guitar 25 years ago. These will go down as classic pedals, mark my words. Sensational!
struggled for decades to create that Leslie organ sound using flanger and chorus delay and reverb AND yes, moving the volume low to high. 20 years ago almost converted my LPC to midi?? finally
EHX was really clever with the puns they used for some of the names of the sounds. 'Lord Purple' is a nice nod to Jon's epic Hammond tone with the Purple. Blimp... Led Zeppelin perhaps? Well, I loved JPJ's organ sound on 'Your Time Is Gonna Come' so that one is cool. The name for the church organ sound in 'Let It Be' threw me a little. The EHX demo video shows a photo of Beatles Paul seated at an organ. I thought that was funny since Billy Preston played that session. Then it hit me... Preston? Press Tone! BRILLIANT. So, am I the first person to get this clever pun?
I have one of these. It works pretty well, but you really need a compressor along with it to even out the volume. At least I do. The volume can really jump up and down at times.
A great trick if your dynamic playing is all over the place , is to turn the pedal down volume wise and it will force you to play harder and more even or at the peak of the pedals output. Of course a comp will help. We did add a comp to the other 9s.
B9 and C9 running at the same time through two different amps and a NEO Ventilator, did you say? Mine blowing ... HOW ABOUT YOURS? YES! You guys knew I would be hear eventually, and thinking about all these things. Great job!
00DirectorsCut00 Basically the same principle, emulating the sound of an organ, but the presets are slightly different on the C9. Check out the demo of the B9 and compare ;)
Just ordered this for my Dad for Christmas from Sweetwater. His Mother played the organ, so I hope this will evoke some memories and inspire him to create some new music!! If he doesn't like it I'll gladly take it! Haha. Looks like tons of creative fun
Bill your skills in EHX products , persuaded me to buy my Mel 9, and since then I’m hooked on EHX for FX pedals from now on! Thanks to to you and EHX NYC
Bill Ruppert, your fantastic guitar work on this demo has sold a lot units. I hope you're getting a percentage of sales!
According to Wiki, Bill was one of the principle designers of the C9 pedal (also B9/Key9/Mel9/Synth9/Bass9), so hopefully is suitably rewarded.
I got my first Electro-Harmonix pedal in 1982 (1970s Small Stone for $30).
This is by far the best EHX demo I've ever seen in store, online, or anywhere else. Fabulous playing!
THANK YOU!!
Bill
I think Ray Manzarek would approve that brilliant interpretation of "light my fire" 🔥🔥🔥
Bought one today, played with it in Guitar Center for about 15 minutes before dropping the $230 down to own it, it sounded so bad ass that a small crowd had gathered around me wondering what the hell I was using. The Deep Purple, Beatles, Doors and Led Zeppelin tones are dead on! Great for clearly played notes and chords., not for shredding on lead solos or punk and thrasher metal.
Mine broke after a few years. Sent it to EHX with a $25 check. A week later it came back in working order. No problems.
Simply amazing playing by Bill Ruppert. It is not easy playing a guitar and making it sound like an organ, even with a fabulous pedal like this or the B9. You have to completely restructure your chords and melodies. Impressive.
Amazing demo. That Light my fire solo was spot on !
Kudos to Bill Ruppert, the guitar player here. Outstanding job figuring out all those changes on a bunch of classic tunes. Great sounding gizmo too !!
This pedal is my secret weapon for my clean sounds. I have it on the Mello Flutes setting w/ the organ mix around 9-10 o'clock in front of a reverb and when it rings out you hear the organ swell in. It's so magical
8 years old and this video still gets comments...just shows how great the demo is! I picked up the C9 a few weeks ago after watching this video. Long, long way to go before I sound like Bill Ruppert.
His playing is incredible for demonstrating these keyboard-type pedals.
It is an amazing specialty pedal... But I am not fooled.... You are an extremely good player and the material you are playing is making that thing shine WAY more than most of us could.
The Spencer Davis bit was freaking sweet.
andrewt248 Lake Emerson Palmer too!
I just ordered my C9. Now comes the long, wonderful process of learning how to make it sound like this! ❤
🍻🍺🍻 250 bucks , not cheap but a lot of fun playing through this , please lets us know how is it, i am planing to buy this and the strings one very soon, i am saving,greetings
@@Toxodeth1984 I have one and it's fun to play around with. I've also made a playlist of songs that have the organ sound (aside from the examples in this video). The idea is to finger the chords like an organ player would.
Where was this stuff back in the 60's 70's 80's 90's and the first ten years of the 2000's ?!?!?
It's so awesome I can't get over this and the B9 units!!!
Amazing pedals but...What a player!!!! I'm sure this product is made all the better by being in such capable hands.
My wife and son gave me one of these for Christmas. I'm having a ball with it. It really sounds this good, just like the demo. It's amazing!
This guy is worth the money. Brillant! Give him a raise.
this has got to be the most original pedal to come out in a long time
4:55 a guitar emulating an organ emulating a guitar
+Juan Sotomayor INCEPTION
Who's the demonstrator? He is very good.
Bill Ruppert
EHX
well, what about an octave pedal before the organ machine? Will it work?
It's Bill Ruppert. The credits are at the end of the video
mehabox anything can "work" although I am not sure why you would need one as an organ's sound is made up of upper and lower octaves.
mehabox yes, i use the whammy kinda like the same way. Even better if you add chorus
Pedal is amazing, but your playing is even BETTER!
That third sound --- like a Farfisa or a Vox --- would be good for a guitarist who always envied Ray Manzarek of The Doors. He died at the age of 74 in 2013, I think.
The demonstrator is totally killer! So skilled!! Wow!
I love the sound of shimmer!
Fkn hell, electro harmonix are something else. A whole other level.
I fancy myself as EHX's biggest fan. They build stuff that is so much fun to play with yet, this stuff can be a life saver. If your keyboard player doesn't show up, you can get by for an intro or as another layer in the mix. The fact that they keep the prices competitive in a greedy world speaks volumes about them.
Best product demo I can imagine! Loved that you chose the Doors to showcase the 60's sound... And Deep Purple for the lord Purple. Your skills are off the charts!
Played this recently with a cover band, first time I've ever had the perfect organ tones I needed.
Pretty cool. Props to the guitarist. Nice chops
I've had mine now for about a year. I use it at every gig. Absolutely love this pedal.
I have the , key 9 , the Mel 9 , and the B9
For home recording they are an absolute game changer
Thanks Guys
I think the Synth 9 will be next , cheers.
Bill makes every EHX pedal sound incredible, the perfect guy to play anything needed!
the Mellotron sound is incredible! I saw that he plays guitar as he would play organ,that needs to be a very good guitarist to use it totally (very probably),playing accords and melodies in the same time.This demonstrator is a god when he plays.very strong!
What a fantastic Guitarist.
Yeah Bill Rupert is amazing. I love his videos. He does a great job of clearly explaining things, too.
Wow! things have come a long way since I had my first EHX effect in 1972 - the LPB-1, with the male plug sticking out one end. Excellent demo!
the mello flute option was very calm and cute. such a nice sound to listen to!
If you are in a classic rock cover band you NEED one of these!
I keep listening to this video for it's entertainment and artistic value!!!
Been fiending over five years to test drive one of these...it should be here tomorrow.
Bill, what an outstanding demo! You are a master!
This thing really nails all those 60s organ sounds I've always loved (Doors, Animals, Strawberry Alarm Clock, etc...). Think I have to have it!!
Wow. 45+ years of playing and I'd never even known this was a thing. Absolutely amazing.
well, in your defense, it just became a decent thing over the last few years... so, you're still good. 👍
Wow! Mind blown! Sounds fantastic! Love the Zepplin and Deep Purple sounds.
So great, i can hear this the whole day.
This demo was done almost 5 years ago, but what a great demonstration! Just perfect song fragments to demo the presets. I like your fat Strat frets too.
You folks at EHX never cease to amaze, incredible!
Wow... I don't have a guitar.. but want one now... then get the effect and start playing... this was a dream when I was a kid.
Half the reason I’m buying this is just to play light my fire
I've acquired one recently to use predominantly for recording purposes, and it is a very convincing pedal. I'll be damned if anyone will be able to tell the difference on tape. Going into a real mic'd Plexi (lower gain settings) and it sounds amazing, but it really, really benefits from a compressor pedal behind it or in front of it; I prefer it behind it, but either way can work. It's a very dynamic pedal, reacts to string attack, but put a compressor in the chain and it's perfect, cleans up very nicely. Love it.
I never knew how much I needed a pedal like this until now...
COMBINE THE B9 AND THE C9 IN ONE PEDAL !!!
You put digital control knobs so that you can program and save your custom banks of tones. You add one footswitch to go up the banks, one footswitch to go down the banks, and one jack input for a standard expression pedal to control the rotary (or whichever other parameter which one should obviously control with an expression pedal).
And you have it ! The ultimate "must have" Organ Machine for guitarists.
This is why they offer BOTH units so they can make enourmous profits as some will most like just purchase just the B9 or C9 units. But yeah, i feel you it would be a novel idea if they "should" offer a unit such as this for our MultiEffects Unit pedal board daisy chain layout.
Ok im sold..when will you have it on offer in the market? (@@)!!
I bought the B9 a few months back and absolutely love it. The C9 sounds just as cool just different. Good work EHX.
5:20 This whole section is awesome. Sounds like something amazing is going to happen.
I have the B9 on my board, and it's sensationally inspirational. This just seems to be another level again. Electro-Harmonix, you've realised a dream I've had for effects this good that I've had ever since I started playing guitar 25 years ago. These will go down as classic pedals, mark my words. Sensational!
Just bought one, this is going to be a lot of fun.
Thanks so much for making these wonderful things.
struggled for decades to create that Leslie organ sound using flanger and chorus delay and reverb AND yes, moving the volume low to high. 20 years ago almost converted my LPC to midi??
finally
EHX was really clever with the puns they used for some of the names of the sounds. 'Lord Purple' is a nice nod to Jon's epic Hammond tone with the Purple. Blimp... Led Zeppelin perhaps? Well, I loved JPJ's organ sound on 'Your Time Is Gonna Come' so that one is cool. The name for the church organ sound in 'Let It Be' threw me a little. The EHX demo video shows a photo of Beatles Paul seated at an organ. I thought that was funny since Billy Preston played that session. Then it hit me... Preston? Press Tone! BRILLIANT. So, am I the first person to get this clever pun?
You must be right about Press Tone but John is the one at the keys but it is not an organ it was a mellotron that he and I think Paul both played.
I'm a drummer percussionist and I think these effect pedals are absolutely amazing!!
Absolutely amazing playing, for sure the pedal have a really close sound, but your playing is very accurate
this thing is really great! and bill ruppert is outstanding. no one uses pedals the way he does. he's a genius...
Never mind the pedals Bill is a great player. Thanks for the show
Oh Jon Lord! Gotta get one!
This is amazing. Pulled the trigger on this little fun-box. Thanks for that excellent demo!
Thanks!
What the hell did I just watch?!?! That was utterly mind blowing! Speechless. Thanks for that!
2:38 Reason enough to buy this pedal.
Mr. Bill Ruppert, you're a genius! I can't tell you how much I enjoy your always brilliant videos. Thank you very much!!!
Definitely up there with the coolest pedals - song choices on point too!
HOLY CRAP that "Lord Purple" setting is AMAZING! OMFG YES!!!! I'm hearing Steven Stills level tones!
I have one of these. It works pretty well, but you really need a compressor along with it to even out the volume. At least I do. The volume can really jump up and down at times.
A great trick if your dynamic playing is all over the place , is to turn the pedal down volume wise and it will force you to play harder and more even or at the peak of the pedals output. Of course a comp will help. We did add a comp to the other 9s.
B9 and C9 running at the same time through two different amps and a NEO Ventilator, did you say? Mine blowing ... HOW ABOUT YOURS? YES! You guys knew I would be hear eventually, and thinking about all these things. Great job!
It's amazing what technology has allowed us to do with the guitar.
That's true ! Guitarist in the 60's would love this pedal damn and so do i
I got mine C9 few days ago, and oh god im loving it. With Cathedral, Freeze and wah wah you can make incredible sounds.
No way around it, I'm impressed. Wow.
Bill is Da MAN when it comes to EHX product demos. I hope they're lining his music room with money.
I love the Farfisa sound ! The sound of the ' 60s
The Son loves this pedal! Thank you Electro Harmonix!!
I wanted to add a keyboard player to my band UNTIL I heard THIS THING! .... I FRICKIN' LOVE IT!
Awesome job of reproducing those classic keyboard parts!
oohh nooo, you didn't! not just after I bought a B9, damnit!
Know what you feel bro'
Ugh- same here...although every pedal these guys put out im like- ooooh- i want that!
Glad I waited long enough to see this one appear. Sorry for you guy, but hey the B9 is great !
00DirectorsCut00
Basically the same principle, emulating the sound of an organ, but the presets are slightly different on the C9. Check out the demo of the B9 and compare ;)
Wooaw ! For the Lord Purple the Strawberry Fields and the Led Zep sound, i'm in love with this effect ! 😍🦻🎶
This is truly an amazing demo. You are a fantastic player to get a guitar to sound like an organ.❤️
Well , he DID use the pedal!!
Just got this - it's totally awesome. Soloing over the shimmer sound through a looper - best sound I've heard for ages out of my guitar.
Just got mine and love it. Wish there were tabs for everything in this video.
FANTASTIC - BOTH THE B/C9 & THE GUITAR PLAYER...!
i love how it says Lord Purple. Rip Jon Lord
This is a bad ass pedal. It's invaluable as a live artist or recording. Love my c9
Good grief, I want it because it CAN make those sounds, but I doubt *I* can make them! Great vid, Mr. Rupert!
This is incredible. I've never heard a guitar synth that good.
Just ordered this for my Dad for Christmas from Sweetwater. His Mother played the organ, so I hope this will evoke some memories and inspire him to create some new music!! If he doesn't like it I'll gladly take it! Haha. Looks like tons of creative fun
Amazing piece of tech. In the hands of the right talent it would be mega. The possibilities are endless. Great demo.
This is ridiculously cool
I’m pretty impressed with how this makes the guitar actually sound like an organ. It’s not hokey sounding at all.
Your playing is amazing, makes me want to get this just for the Doors lick!! lol
EHX should sell a zillion if those. For real, you guys deserve it.
Okay, you've sold me. This thing The Band in a box
Really nice playing Mr Ruppert.
Impressive pedal, impressive playing. I will own one of these!
The moment from 9th minute just made my choice even harder between the C9 and B9... Very good marketing, very good pedals ! Keep up the good work.
Bill your skills in EHX products , persuaded me to buy my Mel 9, and since then I’m hooked on EHX for FX pedals from now on!
Thanks to to you and EHX NYC
Great player, really utilized the pedal exceptionally well.