Scovill’s solution involved taking a stock, two-space rack drawer and inserting pass through plugs on the back panel to another 19-inch rack panel stood off at the rear with XLR connectors for audio (even though he’s running unbalanced), USB and MIDI connectors for control options and an IEC power connector to feed the supplies in the drawer (“I didn’t want any wall warts involved,” he opines, “I hate the freaking wall warts”). “So I thought,” he recalls, “‘You know what, I’m just gonna get another pedal and I’m gonna make my own drawer with these pedals in there and this whole chase is going to be over.’” Thus, he began what he called a “search for the Holy Grail Harmonizer set up.” Once off the 2022 tour and looking in earnest for a solution, Scovill remembered that a few years prior, he’d been impressed when he had been handed an H9 pedal to try out. Having tried various hardware approaches with older Eventide hardware units, Scovill faced road ruggedness issues and the necessity of filling four rack spaces to deliver two channels of Eventide 910 or 949 algorithm pitch change. I have yet to find anything else that can do it that well.” Robert Scovill’s works-in-a-drawer housing two Eventide H9 pedals for vocal processing in his FOH rack during rehearsals for Kenny Chesney’s 2023 tour It’s been done on a bajillion records this way – harmonizing the voice, harmonizing the reverb and harmonizing the slap delay, and just tucking it in right behind all of those things. I’m using it in a really traditional way. As much as I’ve looked, I’ve never found anything even remotely close to what Eventide were doing with their plugins or their hardware. The biggest hole still in AAX DSP is pitch change. When we got into the AAX DSP world, there was a big hole in my plugin architecture that I had to refill. “Working in digital console technologies,” says Scovill of his long use of Avid desks at FOH, “I leaned on Eventide plugins very heavily when it was in TDM land, I couldn’t get enough of it. One core tool in Scovill’s vocal processing arsenal has been the use of Eventide pitch shift algorithms. In terms of just being able to put it anywhere I need it in the mix, and having strength and presence and bigness to it, it’s just a miracle vocal to work with live.” Kenny has one of the great voices I’ve ever pushed up on a fader. With a year of touring with Kenny under my belt now, I’m so far ahead of the game here that I can dig in to all the real detail work and it’s going fantastic. “When we began last year’s rehearsal,” Scovill recalls, “it was all new to me. He truly owns the audience as a live performer he’s a rare beast in front of people, no question.” I caught myself kind of thinking, ‘Well, man, how many times have the Rolling Stones sold out the stadium in Foxborough?’ And it was like that every stadium we went to. And when I say selling out, I mean, wow, clean to the upper rafters. That was his 20th and 21st time selling out that stadium. We were in Foxborough, Massachusetts, at Gillette Stadium for the last two nights of the tour, where the Patriots play. Going into the 2022 Chesney tour, shares Scovill, “I had no idea the scope of his fan base. Photo credit: Kevin Cassidy.įresh off being named FOH Engineer of the Year in the Country Music Association’s CMA Touring Awards for his inaugural tour with Kenny Chesney, the highly acclaimed Robert Scovill began rehearsals for the 2023 tour in February at SoundCheck Nashville.
Robert Scovill, pictured during rehearsals for the 2023 Kenny Chesney tour.
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