Bwahahaha!
Going on record here that I’m jealous. My fav pedal of the decade is the Strymon Flint in harmonic trem mode. Hands down. (Second fav is the El Cap. Third is Klon KTR). I wish my 3 favs could be included in the Kemper system, but am glad Eventide is 33% of the way there. That is a huge feather in their cap and another reason why I’d have one (and probably will somewhere down the line).
I do think the H9 sounds great. Actually, the main attraction the H9 initially had for me was that it linked with an iPad or iPhone for calling up and editing patches, and it had a wonderful sounding ducked delay algorithm that if memory servers was ported over from the H3000, which used to be my go-to effects box back in the day.
I love a ducked delay when recording guitar. I also hate getting down on my hands and knees to mess with pedal presets, especially with a guitar strapped on, and with a digital pedal, you have a lot of presets to manage and edit. Also plugging a USB cable into an effects pedal to program it limits where I can put the thing. So the Bluetooth feature called to me.
I only bought the Max version because I figured a project might come along that needed an effect I didn’t own; I mean one never knows. But once you have one Max pedal, if you have more H9s, up to five of them can use the Max algorithms. So having two H9s was kind of a no-brainer.
All that aside, the strengths of the H9 are its fantastic reverbs, delays, and modulation effects. Its weakness (to me) is that I’m not into the distortions. Still, in a pinch, if I have to use an H9 Fuzz instead of an analog fuzz on one song and not have to buy a fuzz that I’ll use once or twice, fine. On the other hand, I got Jamie an H9, and he uses the distortions and thinks they’re pretty decent.
There’s no explaining this.