Review Demo - Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine

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Rock music of the '60s and '70s fostered not just a generation of pioneering guitarists, but some of the most identifiable organ riffs of all time. Bands like Deep Purple, Procol Harum, and The Band relied as much on heavy, majestic keyboard tones as it did on cranked tube amps. Even the greatest jazz guitarists of the era spent time in organ trios with players like Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Mel Rhyne.

Yes, guitar and organ go together like hand and glove. Of course, the big downside to getting that tone is the heft and hassle of toting a keyboard rig around. But Electro-Harmonix's B9 Organ Machine cops a lot of those tones in a compact stompbox, enabling guitarists to get in on some of that drawbar-fueled action.

Organ Grinder
The B9 has a simple enough layout that you can jump right in. The five-knob setup allows you to control the level of the dry and organ signal, plus a mod and click control. The large knob moves you through nine different organ types and on the left side of the pedal there are individual outputs for each signal—a definite plus.

EHX provides recommendations for best tracking your guitar signal. First, they suggest placing it earlier in your signal chain and before any distortion or overdrives. On my board I experimented with it before and after a Fulltone Full-Drive 2 MOSFET and noticed a distinct advantage to placing the B9 early in the chain. There was one exception: I placed the B9 after the Full-Drive 2 to help goose the input signal a bit when I used my MIM Fender Strat. Since the Strat's pickups have a lower output, the added clean boost helped give the B9 a healthy signal.

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