Electro Harmonix C9 Organ Machine 4-stars Reviews

Wow

The sound is amazing from this pedal and a great variety of keyboard sounds available. You have to know what your doing tho as picking out notes is the only way. You cannot play chords. I loved the big 'Gimme some Lovin' sounds and the Jon Lord sound. Just tricky and needs time to master it

A cool pedal for a niche use.

As advertised, the C9 produces electric organ sounds. If you don't have space for a dedicated organ/keyboard this might help you but it's not without some issues.

Tracking is good, and it handles complex chords beautifully which was something I was worried about before trying it. As other reviewers say though, it's best paired with a compressor to maximize tracking. Sound can drop if your attack is too gentle, or you let the strings ring.

In terms of features there are nine presets modelling different kinds of organs, and each preset has two unique adjustments possible with the mod and click dials. These range from basic tone adjustment to chorus effects and key clicks.

The case is sturdy, but the device feels a bit light. No battery -- it's mains only. The price is a bit steep in my opinion, but if you'd rather not invest in a keyboard, it'll satisfy your fix for organ tones and then some.

Great Little Box!

Delivered quickly, looks good, sturdy. Easy to 'dial in' a sound. I use it for thickening my acoustic guitar sound for worship music. I wouldn't reccomend to use as a substitute for a keyboard player but as a 'modulation' and 'fattening' the sound it's superb. Dry on full and just mix in a little bit of organ or shimmer and you're away. Only downside for UK user is the 2 pin crap PSU, although it doesn come with an adpater. Other thing, I've got no idea at all wht EHX use a 9.6v PSU instead of a 9v one - no one on planet earth seems to be able to anser that question....

Good but.....

The pedal is good, the tracking of the guitar signal is excellent, but you need to adopt a very straight and clean picking style - no bends or vibratos and I recommend a compressor ahead of this pedal to clean and sharpen the guitar signal. That said - this is a great addition to my 3 piece band. I use a A/B-Y pedal to select signal path and either send the guitar signal to the guitar amp or output the C9 directly to the PA desk. One thing I DON'T like is the lack of dynamic control on the vibrato. I can't hold a chord and bend down to speed up the "leslie" effect and I can't keep my balance for one of these "horn" type of replacement knobs. EH should really incorporate an expression pedal jack for this. I also seem to have "lost" the Clavioline sound. Some way of reloading factory presets would be very nice. My apologies for not writing this in Spanish, no sabe los palabras tecnicos.

Fun and useful

I bought it to integrate some new sounds in my rock cover band, since we dont have a keyboard player. It is fun, no doubt about it, playing a guitar and get a credible organ sound. How useful, depends much on your creativity and skills: you need to adapt your playing and try to be as "polyphonic" as you can.

Pro: excellent tracking, no need for special pick-up, very immediate use, good sounds (even in the mix)

Cons: some limitation in the sounds range

Overall: a very good pedal to have fun with

Fun pedal

This pedal is just plain and simple fun. It doesnt sound as good as a real organ, but its close enough. My favorite is the John Lord sound. I cant Say this is a must buy but I can promise that you will have fun with it

So Sensitive! then again I am a guitarist.

Yes this beast is very very sweet and savoury indeed. I was expecting it to have more dynamics in the lower volume levels whilst mainting its sensitivity, so if you like playing loud even when you don't, it's hard to explain, the sample doesn't track very well with soft picking, that's why I only set the "handeling" as 3 stars.

Otherwise the Mellow Tone setting is the best!! as well and the LedZep sound too, the others all resemble, well eachother quite alot, with the diffence being a click , tone and modulation setting which alternates between settings, still I love it on my board because it's great to sound like boss when rehearsing with new people, But go with caution!

Also this thing likes you play upper triads or diodes not big block chords or note bends, it sounds all screwy, it places lower octaves and 5ths all over the place so let it do the bass notes for you.

Place this before your reverb/mods and after gain stages/tuner for best results!

peace!

Luke