EVENTIDE Blackhole Pedal
The recreation of hardware devices in software form has been a common practice for about 20 years – and several companies make excellent emulations of their own products in software form. However, the direction Eventide has taken here is slightly less common: releasing one of its digital reverb presets and plug-ins as a standalone pedal. Eventide has a history of making rackmount effects units, plug-ins and stompboxes alongside each other, so if any company was likely to succeed in this metamorphosis, it’s this one.
The Blackhole is based on an algorithm that has been available for at least 10 years. It can be found as a plug-in and is also available for use in Eventide’s H9 multi-effects pedal, among others in the company’s top-of-the-line rackmount effects unit range. However, Eventide
