Johnny Marr’s Eventhide Harmonizer

In a January 1990 interview with Guitar Player magazine, Marr shared that he recorded the slide part on “How Soon is Now” by applying different harmonizations on each of the three passes he made for that section. While he didn’t provide further details, it’s reasonable to conclude he was referring to an Eventide Harmonizer. Given that the song was recorded in 1984, the most likely model he used would be the H949, released that same year, or possibly the H969, which debuted in 1979.

I wish I could remember exactly how we did the slide part – not writing it down is one of the banes of my life! We did it in three passes through a harmonizer, set to some weird interval, like a sixth. There was a different harmonization for each pass.

Johnny Marr – Guitar Player magazine, 1990