TC Electronic H-3000

A model number that still has no paper trail after decades of searching, and a caution about who the "H3000" name really belongs to.

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Collectors who chase every lead on the TC Electronic H-3000 hit the same wall. There is nothing to find. The archive's research on this entry came back empty: no identity, no specifications, no dates, no history. The only substantive note the source offers is a warning, not a fact: "Little is documented about the TC Electronic H-3000 - in fact, nothing at all in the sources we hold."

The "H3000" designation is real. It just belongs to a different manufacturer. The Eventide H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer is well-documented outboard gear, and period press confirms it. EQ Magazine (July 1990, p.76) ran a lab test of the H3000SE Ultra-Harmonizer and measured signal-to-noise at 92dB, matching the claimed figure. Studio Sound (October 1989, p.93) listed the Eventide H3000 at £1920. None of that belongs to TC Electronic. Crediting Eventide's design to another brand would be a plain factual error, so the archive declined to do it. The source's own conclusion is blunt: "It looks as though this archive entry may be a misattribution - or the TC Electronic H-3000, if it exists, left no trace."

The absence tells you something. TC Electronic's documented output from the period, including the 2290 delay, the 1210 spatial expander and the various controller and effects units, shows up repeatedly in the same period classifieds and studio inventories where the Eventide H3000 appears. A TC-branded "H-3000" does not. The model number could have been a catalog error, a misread of a sibling product, or a designation that never got past a prototype stage. The available record can't settle which. No production years, original price, specifications, dimensions or weight are documented. No design, reception or market information exists either.

If a listing advertises a "TC Electronic H-3000," treat the name as unverified until the seller produces a photo of the actual faceplate and rear panel. What usually turns up under that search string is Eventide hardware, or one of TC's other documented units wearing the wrong label. No exact TC Electronic H-3000 listings were live on eBay at the time of research, which fits a product that may never have existed as a TC Electronic item at all.

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TC Electronic H-3000

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