Retro Rack Rig Rundown

[@RobertBakerGuitar]

Maaannnnn I was really hoping you would do one of these.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Ima do a guitar collection tour next! I don’t have very many so it should be pretty easy

[@RichieCastellano]

This is my new favorite channel!

[@cliftonwright7081]

That’s way kinder than I deserve, you a bad dude! I’ve seen you play in person lol

[@LeonTodd]

1:52 - "Scooby, I don't think that was weed"

[@cliftonwright7081]

Ruh roh, Rilliriben rushrooms raggy!

[@dangreving1094]

Love the rack gear rundown! I still have my rack system i used in the 90’s , a Carvin quadx4 is a 4 channel 5 effect’s loops tube preamp, in the loops are gsp21 legend 4 rockman moduals an art reverb unit tuner and power supply and a carvin ts 100 tube power amp. It all still works and sounds great. Thanks for the video!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Woah that’s awesome! I had a couple Carvin guitars many years ago that were excellent.

[@dangreving1094]

@@cliftonwright7081 hey thanks!! Your rack system is killer!! Being able to select all those ambient effects is great. Now is use alot of pedals and a gec9 switcher and a surround sound sterio 4 tube amp rig. But i just play in my garage. But there is 54 12 “ speakers in here. Lol. 4x12 and 2x12 cabs hooked to all the different amps., Carvin \ Kiesel guitars play like butter. Love the channel!!

[@peterjepps1229]

Thanks for the explanation of the layering of the tones, great ear and playing as always 🤟

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man!

[@francescocagnacci]

Love your tones. Hope to have a rack one day

[@jmatthews7228]

Love these vids cliftonious monk.

[@Yupppi]

I've never seen so many Maxon pedals in a board! And other than tubescreamer too. And love the HM-2 finding its way into this kind of rack and playstyles. It has that really hard mid boost eq curve (I think +20 dB) that can destroy things to distortion by itself, but doesn't act like big muff hiding the guitar out of mix. Very nice stuff. Also funny to see stuff like Mesa preamps just sitting in the shelf and synergy modeller in the rack. Perhaps a sign of how convenient the modern modellers are. Very sweet episode, very helpful for many. And you don't get to hear these units and sounds too often, but with explanation of how they're set too. Seems like every new upload is a good day to come to youtube. Also very fitting to see the HM-2 there, because today is my day of getting some of that 5G HM-2 chainsaw in my bloodstream \,,/

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! My mission is to simply try to make videos I wish had been on KZbin when I first started down the rabbit hole that has been this rack project.

[@cliftonwright7081]

There’s actually a maxon AD80 hidden deeper in the drawer so there’s an entire skittles rainbow of shit in there

[@Yupppi]

@@cliftonwright7081 sounds like one day there's a pedalboard review coming! And definitely you hit the right niche. They say the best way to succeed is to find something that's missing and filling the void!

[@zombiemosher1139]

Great stuff, I love the old rack stuff. It was still kinda the thing when I started playing out live in 1993. I've went back & fourth since but now use both rack & pedals in my live rig. The HM-2 is a great boost. I'm always telling people that pedal has more than one use.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Yeah! I did a song on my channel with it and it does an awesome twangy Texas style strat boost thing that I had no idea existed in that pedal till I turned all the knobs every which way.

[@zombiemosher1139]

@@cliftonwright7081 I'll check it out.

[@dektrimusic]

So glad KZbin suggested your channel. Amazing playing, great gigs and your playing style is just fantastic, mate. Subbed

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! It’s been a fun little hobby

[@mattcamacho5570]

Killer vid, ya helped me open up my pcm70 a tad more.

[@ian1eh944]

That was GREAT!! Love that man! Good show! :)

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@bretttaylor8272]

Awesome Clifton, jeez you get some good gear in Japan. When I was on holiday there I went to a few different guitar shops and Bookoff to see what I could find.

[@kaydenkircher2076]

That second tone at 2:00 sounds like something to come from a brighter/snappier later Zeppelin album

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! I actually really like the later zeppelin stuff! Very creative productions

[@d.a.t.4699]

sounds awesome man, thx for sharing your tones. the riffs are BIG as usual. have a gooder man!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for dropping a line, friend! I have a long way to go before all the dialing in and midi programming is done but it’s all about the Journey.

[@Loudmetall_S]

9:30 - your spanish is great, dude !... amazing guitar tones too

[@safedangerband]

Insanely good playing and tones man. Gonna have to try and learn some of the licks from the song.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! I was trying to get some kinda unconventional things going on. Usually people want the PERFECT Lukather or Huff tone which is something I love, but sometimes it’s fun to sound kinda trashy.

[@fairmonttech-nmedia]

Clifton so you split with the Rane and send everything back to the Roland for mixing? Great video.

[@rontaylor9736]

Awesome! Thanks for the breakdown.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you for tuning in!

[@HominidInterneticus]

Any difference between the PCM80 and 70. Any reason why you'll keep a 70 if you have an 80. I had a PCM80 at some point in the past. I regret selling it. Sheesh man. You've made a lot of gear videos

[@stevebeck3164]

Definitely getting a lot of coveted '80's-'90's tones with that behemoth system. I spy Michael Landau, Lukather, Van Halen, Robert Fripp to name a few. Any chance you could post a wiring diagram/schematic of your system? I'm in the process of building something similar, but can't quite afford the hefty $$$ for PCM70'S. Love your stuff and appreciate you posting your soundscape adventures.

[@cliftonwright7081]

I sold like 8 SPX90s and a bunch of other stuff for those lexicons lol

[@HowardBobson]

So how much of this stuff was acquired in Japan and how much was shipped over? Cool gear and incredible playing!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you! In my rack: All the pedals, the DBX comp, the Yamaha Rev7 and tuner were all from Japanese thrift stores. All the stuff under the desk behind me is stuff from Japanese thrift shops also

[@geezberry8889]

thank you for pronouncing Eventide correctly

[@cliftonwright7081]

EEEEEVENTIIIIDE, Thoughts arrive like butterrrfliies. Oh, He don’t know, so he chases them away.

[@gdanskJam]

How do you like the GCX switcher? Does it sound transparent compared to pedal straight to the amp? Would you prefer it over Patchmate or RJM or other switchers? Great videos and playing, not just shredding, but also very musical ;)

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man, I haven’t tried those other ones so I can’t make a fair comparison. Would like an RJM but they’re very expensive

[@NikolausBrocke]

Nice. I am also a big fan of the 90ies racks. But as I built my rack I faced some important routing configuration problems. 1. Just a parallel path is not enough. You need to combine parallel and seriell in the post fx. Here is an example: you want reverb on the direct sound. And you want reverb on the FX sound. You want the chorus (and the detune) feed the delay but you want chorus and detune also go direct, in parallel with the direct signal (danger of phase issues). Where do you insert the detune? Before or after the chorus? Or in parallel to the chorus? It makes a big difference. BTW great playing! (Better than your sound.)

[@cliftonwright7081]

Yeah this iteration had some effects in series with the preamp/two notes live but all my time and pitch stuff was in parallel unless it was dual effect algorithm from a single unit which is kind of the easiest way to sidestep the routing option Armageddon. I mostly use these effects units when I mix so I can route stuff however I want with a patchbay or in the daw/with sends and returns on my interface

[@NikolausBrocke]

@@cliftonwright7081 I do a lot of routing in my studio like you described. Doing it all with the rack is a lot of work. It's a challenge to play live and switch all with just one step. And you must be able to adapt the sound to the venue where you are playing.

[@mikemion2527]

Hey Clifton I was wondering where your stereo effect returns are plugged into. Back into the Roland than stereo summed to power amp? If so why did you use the first channel on the roland to be sent out the aux to the rane. would returning back to the roland not cause a feedback loop? why not split the torpedo signal 6 ways, using the rane first, than to fx and return to roland and use that aux to blend in another reverb or something? Just trying to wrap my head around this, cause im in the process of shopping for a line mixer. thanks!

[@cliftonwright7081]

The only audio that goes out through the aux send is dialed in per channel with an individual aux send knob (there’s two per channel on the M-120). That’s why there’s no feedback issues. However, you are correct; I could just as easily split the output of the torpedo 6 ways. I need to find a nice fully balanced line mixer eventually. I just like the M-120 and, lately, the Boss MX10 because they’re small, have tons of channels and sound good. I do need something that operates at full +4 line level and has balanced I/O to make the most of my Lexicons.

[@mikemion2527]

@@cliftonwright7081 gotcha. yea the m-120 looks awsome i can see why its hard to let go. its hard to find mixers with 2 aux sends. not to mention made in japan rather than the crap they make in china or Indonesia nowadays. was thinking about buying one used but dont know cus there pretty aged by now. would you still recommend one today or should i buy a newer modern mixer?

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@mikemion2527 I’d maybe look at some desktop mixers too

[@MKRISING75]

Awesomeness 🤘nothing else to say

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks mark!

[@geezberry8889]

i have run into a fork in the road. I have my 80's rack setup with a pcm 80, d1500's, pro-chorus, SPX90, dbx compressor, soldano pre and a few other fx units BUT i have acquired an AxeFX3 and am adding it to the rack. Not really sure what to pull out and what to keep in it

[@cliftonwright7081]

Wow damn, you’ve got options for days! The Axefx will do everything that whole rack will do but….sometimes that mojo from the older units is tough to beat

[@geezberry8889]

@@cliftonwright7081 running my Pre , GCX, Lexicon, SPX into the 4 send, returns of the Axe. This way they can be placed anywhere in the Axe chain. Guitar plugs into the instrument in on the Axe.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@geezberry8889 that’s a great way to do it! I liked routing rack effects into my helix floor the same way

[@geezberry8889]

@@cliftonwright7081 i thought the tone would suffer but the opposite. i can drive the input of the tube pre a little harder and get great results, also zero hum

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@geezberry8889 that’s badass! I’m building a semi portable stereo rig right now with the Synergy, Fryette LXII, Eclipse and probably a GCX + pedal drawer. Gunna drive a pair of those old vertical Mesa 2x12s like the ones Lukather used in the 80s

[@russellcarne291]

3 PCMS coz you can hehe where is the TC 1210 and 2290 ?

[@cliftonwright7081]

In my dreams bro!

[@PurposefulPorpoise]

I've never subscribed to a channel faster lmao

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha love your channel name

[@russellcarne291]

sounds like 5150 album

[@marysini1391]

Pcm70 better then pcm80? 👍👍

[@cliftonwright7081]

They’re just different

[@loleksk8]

hory shiet man . PCM rules !

[@TrebleMidBass]

Get a stereo tri chorus TERC for cleans and use the eventide micropitch from the eclipse for leads or 1210 by tc

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha don’t have the funds for anything that fancy!