Hi. That’s a great pop song with great production.
This guy has a partial answer for the main riff for you: https://soundcloud.com/squareversesine/h9-vintage-delay-with-or-without-you-u2 Please see his comment and hear his Eventide H9 clip (which sounds pretty good to me).
IMHO the production on that song is sooooo dense (excellent but dense) the best we can do with just one H90 and no overdubs is approximate the effects. I got curious so I made and attached two alternative programs.
In WOWOY 1, I use Vintage Delay series into Shimmer. This program not only has reverb, but you can link the Pitch Decay to an expression pedal with a range of 0 to 70. That way you can fade in and out with one higher octave in the reverb, as desired. You can also set Pitch B = 1208 on hotswitch one and Pitch B = 2408 on hotswitch two. That lets you fade in and out with different shimmer octaves. The idea is to enable one guitar player approximate various high pitched sustaining notes all over the ending. Note that the delay feedback is set to 32 and I think that’s about right. I also think you are correct that the tempo should be about 111. Note the 50% Program Mix. That is supposed to be a partial parallel path for your amp (or amp sim) signal entering the H90. It’s subtle but I think it makes things a bit clearer. You can choose to disregard that but then you’ll have to rebalance the other mix levels.
In WOWOY 2, I use Vintage Delay series into Sticky Tape (to try to approximate SDD3000 preamp crunch and to widen the stereo field). I have lengthened the delay feedback to 36. That’s longer than I think is correct but it makes things a little more reverby since this program has no reverb. Note the 50% Program Mix. That is supposed to be a partial parallel path for your amp (or amp sim) signal entering the H90. It’s subtle but I think it makes things a bit clearer. You can choose to disregard that but then you’ll have to rebalance the other mix levels.
I think you’ll need something like an E-Bow for the long sustaining notes in the beginning. For this, I would use a single delay set to about 400ms or a dotted 1/4 with 3 – 4 repeats. I’d prolly also run that in series into the Shimmer reverb discussed above but backed off some.
Hope that helps.
~Tony
