YAMAHA SPX-90II DEMO with a vintage Strat.

[@StuartKReilly]

Came for the demo, stayed for the absolute killer playing!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks friend! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@davemcafeeguitar]

Amazing playing!! Came to hear the SPX 90 and didn’t even care about that once you started playing. Awesome chops and licks!!

Sweet! damn, your good-I am a big fan already. Thanks for sharing your talent. I could be wrong, but I think you strike me a schooled rocker turn country picker. Great chops.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for the kind words, friend! I got exposed to a lot of cool stuff growing up! My list of favorite bands and musicians spans many genres. Definitely spun my Yes, Jethro Tull, Rush, Captain Beyond, Deep Purple, Kansas, Al Dimeola, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani etc records to death growing up!

[@domidigital]

Leon Todd's rack gear obsession brought me here... Cannot say that I regret it :-) Your playing is just amazing!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you!

[@victorcastrooficial]

Beautiful tones and playing!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for checking out my video, Victor!

[@davidbuzzin426]

👍🇺🇲❤Your the best player demoing this device 😁👍

[@sjirk]

really impressed by how good this unit makes you sound :P kidding really impressed with how good YOU make this unit sound!

[@2005vinnievincent]

Amazing tones and playing man! 🤘☠

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks dude, hope it was helpful!

[@roberthoener5080]

Damn buddy, u must tear up a banjo, exceptional

[@12opsynths]

I mean do we like the reverb or the tasty playing?

[@Yupppi]

Can't beat symphonic, but the micro pitch shift is pretty nice in these units as well. And even though I tend to use other stuff for reverb and delay, the reverb is really nice and delay does its job. The funniest preset absolutely is the crazy vibrato one. In your wet/dry/wet it would've probably sounded like a chorus though! Just a really wild one. I also forget what the detail was, but I recall pitch shift A/B differ from C/D. One thing that makes this unit a bit tough is that even though it has some useful parameters to edit in some patches, with stuff like reverb your only option is to adjust the (volume) balance. Luckily every sound in this unit is set to sound good from the factory.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Yeah! I have SPX-900s now but my current rack has three PCM70s, a Eclipse, two SDE3Ks and a PCM80 so I don’t really need much else lol

[@조병선-v5b]

@@cliftonwright7081 Great... could you tell me how do you hook them up and what preset do you use them for?

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@조병선-v5b I route them all in parallel with the dry signal using a rack mount line mixer. I mostly make my own presets for basic effect categories like Delay, reverb, micropitch, chorus, etc

[@mydogspet]

Cliff, you'd have been the best next door neighbor growing up. "Can I borrow a cup of Lexicon, I've run out."

[@johnnywomack548]

Great playing and great tone! What year is that guitar?

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for checking out my channel! Body is early 70s and neck later 70s.

[@Batsinthebelltower]

6:15 nice picking

[@superweevel]

Sounds great! Does the SPS -00 11 Stack up tp the SPX-90? Which unit do you prefer?

[@cliftonwright7081]

I’m not familiar with that unit, unfortunately. The Yamahas are great, easy to use live tools when they’ve been maintained properly

[@superweevel]

Clifton, How would you configure the SPX-90 11 For "Live" use?

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@superweevel the best sound you’ll get from the unit is running it 100% wet in parallel at line level using a mixer. My rig uses a rack mounted line mixer that my preamp is plugged into. I then use the Aux/FX sends from the mixer to feed effects so I can control how much is blended with my preamp’s dry tone before going to a power amp or whatever. If you Google guitar rack rigs you’ll see people set stuff up all sorts of different ways. But generally, “parallel” is the way you want to use something like the SPX90. That way it’s limited A/D isn’t processing your core tone.

[@superweevel]

Clifton, Can this unit be combined w/ another effect's processor? I have a Digi Tech 1101 Guitar Preamp, would love to add this to it.

[@cliftonwright7081]

It can be! Does your preamp have an effects loop?

[@superweevel]

@@cliftonwright7081 Yes , It Des

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@superweevel if it’s a line level effects loop you can hook up the effects unit there and it should work great. It would be good to check and see if it’s a series or parallel loop though. If you can’t blend how much loop feeds into your dry signal you may want to consider using some kind of line mixer to run the effects unit in parallel. This way you guitar tone is going through all the extra analog to digital conversion of the effects unit

[@cliftonwright7081]

This way your guitar tone IS NOT*

[@johanneschristopherstahle3395]

Usually the FX loop is 100% wet, but you can change that in the edit effects/preset menu. You could even do left side dry, right side wet or assign an expression pedal to control the amount of wet signal you want to mix in...

[@bobdaryl1]

Wow what a massive guitar sound, how are u getting that fat beautiful compression sound?

[@bobdaryl1]

Also im aware alot of this is due to the incredible playing

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! Too kind. I think I used the Vox simulation in my Strymon Iridium with a Wampler Ego compressor in front with the clean blend a little over halfway. Guitar is a 70s strat with a Callaham bridge, Lollar Special pickups and 11 gauge strings. All that into my UAD Apollo interface into Logic.

[@hobronerhobroner1848]

Number 5 is dead on for "bury me in Southern ground"

[@cliftonwright7081]

It’s still wild to me how much higher res so much stuff got without actually getting more useful or cooler sounding.

[@hobronerhobroner1848]

@@cliftonwright7081 oh, absolutely, and it's just not the "Nashville" tone. I've matched a few artists (in sound not skill, ha) like Gilmore, Trower, Allman...I wish I would've kept it

[@43loudman]

yep, really nice playing,.................

[@cliftonwright7081]

Too kind, 12 bits!

[@soundsokok]

what do you think about a spx90 vs eventide eclipse ?

[@cliftonwright7081]

Not really comparable devices. The eventide has incredible depth and clarity. The SPX90 has a cool, funky retro grit to it that I also really like.

[@soundsokok]

@@cliftonwright7081 ok thks. So what would you compare the eclipse to then ?

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@soundsokok hard to say. It does really amazing pitch shift and delay like a classic eventide should but it also has really killer reverbs in it like a lexicon. Basically a really good Swiss Army knife of effects with some really wild creative possibilities

[@cliftonwright7081]

For more recent hardware, the SPX2000 kind of bridges the gap between the Eclipse and an SPX90. Some really killer, clean meat and potatoes type stuff going on in the spx2000. Of course, the appeal of the older units is the thickness and coloration from the analog portion of the hardware

[@soundsokok]

@@cliftonwright7081 that's how i view the eclipse as well . Is it possible though to program in the eclipse such a thing ? => delay ping pong going into a hall reverb ( so i can reverb a bit my ping delay at 50% wet for instance ) all in the eclipse ?

[@mydogspet]

Great

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks!

[@jonunderscore]

You're a hell of a picker!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you for checking out the channel!

[@amonster8mymother]

Can somebody tell me how to turn the bypass on/off over midi?

[@cliftonwright7081]

You could always use any ole preset and set the mix to 0% and name it “Bypass”

[@amonster8mymother]

@@cliftonwright7081 what? Set the mix? Then change preset? Yeah, but making a preset. For each preset? I dunno? That makes for very few presets.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@amonster8mymother oh, I would just make one preset with the effect turned off so it just passed clean signal to the aux return or however you’re routing it. You’d only need one preset like that to bypass the unit’s effects with midi.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@amonster8mymother then every time you don’t want the unit on you just tell it to go back to that one preset with no effects on it

[@amonster8mymother]

@@cliftonwright7081 ok that's cool. I'm using a Roland fc100mk2 foot controller with the gp16. It's setup for 8 banks of 8 presets. The spx90 is 100 presets but it goes from 00 to 9. In tens. So I have to set it up to work with the gp16 or get another foot controller. And possibly put the bypass patch in each bank? I'm not sure. The foot controller has a bypass switch but I don't know if it can be assigned to do the bypass for 9ther units. I wish I could change midi channels with it or other foot controller...

[@wallyelectronicsformusicia8646]

The play techniques are not functional to the type of effect engaged.

[@cliftonwright7081]

People don’t make videos to please your opinions.

[@wallyelectronicsformusicia8646]

@@cliftonwright7081 well, make little videos in your little bedroom for yourself

[@cliftonwright7081]

Says somebody who’s contributed nothing.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Better yet, why don’t you post a video of how to correctly be creative in a world that is clearly meant to serve you.

[@peehaha9742]

@@wallyelectronicsformusicia8646 Who broke your heart and turned you into a sour old man