Blackhole – The Extraterrestrial Reverb
“Blackhole” is a reverb plugin like no other, the epic, evolving soundscapes, haunting drones and sinuous ambiences that it spits out have to be heard to be believed! It’s many amazing features include:
- Incredibly easy to use with over 50 presets; many created by Eventide artists.
- Unique “Gravity” control reverses the arrow of time by inverting the reverb’s decay.
- Kill Switch mutes the input so you only hear the reverb. This makes for some incredible effects when automated.
- Mix Lock allows for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant.
- Innovative Ribbon and Hot Switch allow for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously.
- Full support for the Native Instruments NKS Effects system.
In short, Blackhole is destined to be one of those tools that you turn to time and time again when reality just isn’t enough!
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A Brief History Of The Blackhole Reverb
Eventide have now perfected the galactic sounds of the “Blackhole reverb” in native plug-in form. With the Blackhole plug-in, any instrument in your DAW can warp acoustic space and time.
This famed, massive reverberator first saw the light of day as an algorithm in Eventide’s rackmount DSP4000 and remained a favourite in the rackmount H8000FW. For decades studio engineers considered Blackhole their “secret weapon.”
More recently, it was ported to their Space stompbox and became the go-to ambient effect for guitar and keyboard layers. With each new version the reverb has been refined and enhanced.
From The Extreme To The Sublime!
While it’s true “Blackhole” is capable of creating space-warping special effects and drones, it’s also capable of creating musical and subtle effects you’ll find useful for highlighting key instruments or painting a backdrop for your mix.
At large sizes, its soft attack and lingering, harmonic tails allows it to really shine on guitars, strings and pads. At small sizes those very same qualities can add an angelic sheen to vocals or turn a simple drum track into an otherworldly rhythm section.
“Blackhole” has already found a home in many professional studios and is used by leading artists including:
- Andre Kelman – Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Gogol Bordello, Cat Power
- Steven Williams – Sting, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton
- Ed Pettersen – Richard Thompson, Freedy Johnston, Candi Staton, Wadada Leo Smith, Giuseppi Logan, Henry Kaiser
- Joe Chiccarelli – U2, Elton John
- Neil Dorfsman – Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Bruce Hornsby
- Tony Visconti – David Bowie, T. Rex
- Erin Tonkon – David Bowie, Holy Holy, Esperanza Spalding
Packed To The Rafters With Unique Features – Unlock Your Creativity
“Blackhole” isn’t a typical reverb plugin, and is capable of some truly out-of-this-world effects. That said, although some of the controls may seem unusual, you’ll have no problem picking them up within five minutes.
Designed to give you extensive control, “Blackhole” allows you to craft your own signature sounds easily, and gives you plenty of features to do just that:
- Incredibly easy to use with over 50 presets; many created by Eventide artists.
- Ability to create extremely musical effects useful for highlighting key instruments.
- Supernatural settings for abstract spatial effects and drones.
- Subtle settings for ambient washes and track highlighting.
- Unique “Gravity” control reverses the arrow of time by inverting the reverb’s decay.
- Kill Switch mutes the input so you only hear the reverb. This makes for some incredible effects when automated.
- Mix Lock allows for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant.
- Fully flexible mono and stereo options. Bring new realms of stereo imaging to mono instruments.
- Innovative Ribbon and Hot Switch allow for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously.
- Full support for the Native Instruments NKS Effects system.
Read more in-depth details on all these features in the Manual HERE.
Included with Blackhole is a carefully curated set of 50 presets that serve as a launch pad for your explorations. These presets cover spaces as small as a room and as large as space itself and have been created by a handful of the most influential producers and artists working today including:
- Richard Devine – Sound Designer
- Flood & Alan Moulder – Nine Inch Nails, U2
- Vernon Reid – Living Colour
- Jonsi & Alex – Sigur Ros
- John Agnello – Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr
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So What Can I Do With “Blackhole”?
“Blackhole” has long been considered Hollywood’s “secret weapon” for reverb. With it’s extensive sound-shaping capabilities, Gravity, Ribbon and Hotswitch controls and out of this world sound it is ideally suited for:
- Epic, Evolving Soundscapes
- Haunting Drones
- Sinuous Ambiences
- Highlighting key instruments or use on a mix
In short, Blackhole is destined to be one of those tools that you turn to time and time again when reality just isn’t enough!
Still not sure, request a free 30 day demo HERE (email sign-up required).
Note: This plugin requires you to create a free iLok account HERE, however you DO NOT need to own a physical key!
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- Eventide Blackhole – The Extraterrestrial Reverb!
- Incredibly easy to use with over 50 presets; many created by Eventide artists.
- Ability to create extremely musical effects useful for highlighting key instruments.
- Supernatural settings for abstract spatial effects and drones.
- Subtle settings for ambient washes and track highlighting.
- Unique “Gravity” control reverses the arrow of time by inverting the reverb’s decay.
- Kill Switch mutes the input so you only hear the reverb. This makes for some incredible effects when automated.
- Mix Lock allows for scrolling through presets or settings while keeping the wet/dry mix constant.
- Fully flexible mono and stereo options. Bring new realms of stereo imaging to mono instruments.
- Innovative Ribbon and Hot Switch allow for changing any combination of parameters simultaneously.
- Full support for the Native Instruments NKS Effects system.
- Microsoft Windows 7+ and Mac OS X 10.7+, AAX, AU, VST
- Note: This plugin requires you to create a free iLok account HERE, however you DO NOT need to own a physical key!
- Create everything from space-warping special effects & drones to musical and subtle effects for solo instruments & mixes!
What People Think About 85% off “Blackhole” by Eventide
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“The epic, evolving soundscapes, haunting drones and sinuous ambiences that it spits out have to be heard to be believed... In a word: cosmic.”
Music Radar
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“Incredibly rich sound, this makes it the perfect tool for creating big, movie-style effects and crazy, warped sounds out of run-of-the-mill sources.”
Computer Music
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“Blackhole has a huge sonic palate of spring, plate, and natural reverbs for you to chose from. If natural reverbs are not your thing Blackhole has some ungodly settings that will absolutely blow you away.”
TMR Zoo
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"A simple clean guitar can be transformed into a vast atmospheric soundscape, but by the same token you can also turn things a touch sinister by heaping on the resonance, feedback and modulation depth."
Sound On Sound
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“...For the tall order of designing huge, infinite spaces that fold out into the far reaches of the imagination, Blackhole is arguably the best tool for the job.”
Bedroom Producers Blog
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“From cavernous depths to huge spaces or otherworldly soundscapes this plugin will take you there in no time and would probably work a treat on a dubstep snare too...and coming from Eventide you know it’s got to sound good and it does for sure on most anything you slap it on be it drum”
Producer Spot
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“The huge reverb would lend itself perfectly to cavernous echoes on dubstep snares, for example. More subtle settings sound exceptional on soft pad sounds, classic deep house Rhodes chords and even on percussion parts.”
Attack Magazine
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“It breaks away from the plate-room-hall-chamber paradigm and brings a single algorithm geared towards making reverbs as big as the cosmos...Blackhole is simply a joy to use.”
Gearslutz
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“Reverb as an instrument unto itself might seem far-fetched, but Blackhole fetches far further than your average reverb unit...The sound quality is simply outstanding, all the essential features are there, and it invites a degree of painless creativity that standard reverb units just can't match.”
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Tim – :
This Eventide Blackhole Reverb is legendary!
Stewart – :
An amazing reverb that instantly creates emotion for instruments such as piano, guitar, etc. It is ideal for use in film scoring and also for sound design.
Alessandro – :
Muito bom, um reverb diferente de tudo que eu ja vi, muito recursos,
Precisa de uma curva de aprendizagem
Muitos presets
Matt – :
The Eventide Blackhole reverb is the extra dimension I didn’t know I was looking for. Great for haunting keys and guitar. Brilliant.