David Gilmour's phaser tones - the MXR Phase 90
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- David Gilmour's phaser tones
In this video I'll be covering David Gilmour's phaser tones. The Phase 90 was introduced in the mid 70s and soon used by David Gilmour, first introduced in his setup in June 1974. The pedals was used extensively throughout the 1974-75 leg of the Dark Side of the Moon tour and subsequently for the recording of Wish You Were Here. We'll look at David Gilmour's tones and how you can use a phaser to achieve multiple modulation and rotary tones.
In this video
Guitar: Fender Stratocaster, with D Allen Voodoo 69 neck and middle pickups and Seymour Duncan SSL5 bridge pickup
Pedals: MXR Phase 90 - Colorsound Power Boost - Dawner Prince Boonar echo
Amp: Laney Lionheart L20, Laney LT212 cabinet with Celestion V30 speakers
Mic: Sennheiser e906 mic
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Chapters
0:00 Intro jam - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
1:43 The MXR Phase 90
4:44 UniVibe
6:33 Rotary - Hudba
There is something truly magical with the way Gilmour plays and you do capture that very well here!
Thank you!
Totally agreed with the phaser before dirt. When I put them after dirt they sound really over the top and domineering. Put them before and there's all the madness of a phaser with a lot of subtlety which I like.
Also loved your playthrough of any colour you like. One of my fav songs from the band.
i liked the way you tied in breathe and dogs using that E chord
he used phaser in dogs??
i always played with fuzz, chorus, delay, flange and reverb
@@otaviomarques5395 gilmour used phase for dogs when it was called you gotta be crazy in 1975. i dont think he used the pahse in 74 yet it was too new. in 1977 when it was actually called dogs he played it clean tone. of course on the actual album its 2 acoustic guitars at the same time.
They are In E so, yeah lol
Careful with that whammy bar, Eugene! Awesome sounds...
This would be fantastic, maybe a series of the 69-72 tones?
Guys, i just posted a demo of my phase 90 but not getting any views. Can someone please check it out and tell me what you think? Thanks! czcams.com/video/DS25orkJ4sw/video.html
carli bybel
The Phase 90 is easily my favorite pedal of all time. Love my EVH version :)
Best Phase 90 demo I've heard pretty much ever. I was always a Small Stone fan, gotta love that color switch.
But this is lovely sounding.
Thanks! Yes, the Small Stone is great too! Often used on vintage keyboards. It's a bit more subtle than the Phase 90. The colour mode is great for crazy effects :)
Great video! Now I have some inspiration for some time to come with my basement guitar stress relief.
I have been employing an MXR Phase 95 for about a year. Really like it.
Hey gilmourish, you’re awesome man, everything you do is spot on and I really appreciate all of the effort and dedication you put into all of your videos and demonstrations. Also, your guitar playing is amazing and extremely tasteful and unique!, thank you so much for all that you do for the CZcams community we all appreciate your hard work, thank you!!!!
Thanks for the kind words Paul!
Congratulations Bjorn. Great sounds!!!
Thanks!
I’m a keyboard player, and I remember picking up my first electric guitar back in the 90’s. Just for fun and to expand my sound palate.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but all the pedals and effects I was drawn to were the ones that gave me the most Gilmour-esque sound. Phaser has always been my favorite effect, and all my effects give me that PF tone. I even bought EMG SA’s for my Strat back in the 90’s before I knew that’s what David was using!
It wasn’t until the last couple of years with everyone openly chasing after David’s tone that I realized that’s exactly what I was doing back then!
What is EMG SA's.
@@wouterdeheus3626 EMG is a brand of active pickups, and SA’s are a particular set for Strat guitars.
Jeez thanks for the inspiration. I've had an MXR Phase 90 in my "box of pedals" for years i really havent thought about it lol. Now i think i'll dig if out and get all Gilmoury..Thank You :)
My favorite modulation of all time. For my own music, it’s always used.
Same here!
Congratulations on the new album!!!!!
Thank you!
I'm watching your videos and website since 2008! I'm a big David Gilmour/PF fan.
Awesome! Thanks for the support!
I love the phaser in the '75 live versions of the songs. When I first was getting into Floyd, I bought the Boston Garden concert on CD at my local music shop. I had only heard Dark Side of the Moon at that time, so my first ever introduction to Shine On, Dogs, Sheep, Cigar, etc. was from this concert. I loved that phaser tone, and I still do. My favorite is You Gotta Be Crazy. Beautiful sounds.
I have the Phase 95 and love it. The Phase 45 mode in it is awesome.
Agreed, the 90 in it is a little extreme, even on Script. But the 45 in both Script and off is damn creamy and nice. Much more subtle.
I think the 95 is the way to go
Hell yah my dude you nailed the tones. I have a modern phase 90 that I snippes the r28 out of it and I love it!
Things we want more of? Anything! Just more please. Love the channel and your page!
Thanks!
Well done! Great demo! I have the Phase 90 script but not the custom shop version. I also use a Fulltone DejaVibe mkII and a Leslie G37 for the rotary sounds. Thanks again for all you do!
Thanks! The custom shop is not ideal signalwise but it sounds sweet :)
How am I only finding this channel now?? Amazing content.
Thanks! Check out my website too gilmourish.com
Excellent Video, at 6:20 I could hear Dogs, my Favourite Floyd/Gilmour songs, 6:50 brought a smile, Just Beautiful!!!
Thank you 👍👍👍.
Melbourne, Australia.
Thanks!
Just ordered a Phase 90 '74' reissue. I think I'm gonna have a blast!
great demo, like it should be. a good balance between tasty playing and showing the different sounds. thanks!
Thanks!
VERY nice in deed especially "BREATHE" I want that strat neck
LOVE the shirt high for that and well done on the tone!
Thanks!
Sounds awesome!
Best phase 90 review I have seen.
Thanks!
Just downloaded your album from iTunes. Very impressive on first listen. Definitely one for a walk in the sun with headphones 🎧 🎸👍
Awesome! Thanks for the support!
More than Phase 90 I'd like a lot the Boss PH-1R this is a very organic phaser too. Beautiful tones!
you play damn great man, even if it's Gilmour's riffs, we can hear the awesome playin level, nice and smooth
Thanks!
Great video. Thank you for doing what you do. And yes phaser before any drive pedals does sound better to me.
Thanks!
Great vid! Thanks a lot.
And concerning Phase90 - one of my fav.! And yes, I have this one.
Thanks!
MXR script shaped a lot of Zep tunes as well..great pedal very versatile.
Great jam Bjorn great play.
Thanks!
This is why I love my Line 6 Helix. All the Gilmour amps and effects are already built in. Very easy to build the song changes such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond with the Snapshot feature.
And in 2023 the Leslie speaker DG used got added to the Helix.
Awesome Bjorn......
Thanks!
As usual, a great tutorial
Thanks!
Simply perfect
Fabulous playing.
Thanks!
Great video, Thanks!
I already knew you're gonna do an awesome job before i even clicked on the video.
Ha ha, thanks!
Lovely setup.
I get pretty good Gilmour tones with my R28-modded block Phase 90... Love that pedal so much
Love it 🤘😎
Very helpful! Thx!
Awesome 👌 , l like both the vibe 😎 and phase 90 (script logo)
MXR Phase 95 is my phaser of choice. It sits after my gain pedals.
"Every colour you like" has been on my favorite guitar tone radar for so long. Finally picked up a script phase 90 and it's so good.
0:00 Shine on you crazy diamond
1:07 Atom Heart (version in G)
1:41 Nice talk about phase pedals
4:48 Breathe (In the air)
5:42 You've Got To Be Crazy
6:36 Brain Damage
7:06 Any Color you like
the two things missing are at 1:07 is atom heart mother the section where they play in G.
and the one at 7:06 is any colour you like.
@@Lander-bo2rq lot of thanks !! =)
@@mauroariascontreras9284 no problem!
Ótimo som!
Good sound!
=]
My favorite phaser is the Earthquarker Devices Grand Orbiter. I love how it has more control over the effect in comparison to something like the Phase 90. It has Depth, speed, resonance, and sweep knobs with a speed toggle that changes the speed knob from slow, stationary, and fast and a vibrato switch to kill your dry signal. I still love the iconic sound of the Phase 90 though and i completely understand how its simplicity is one of its strengths. Definitely a fantastic pedal to have in one's collection or on their board.
My favorite video for ethereal guitar sounds
My fav is EHX Small Stone. Sounds ok doing Gilmour tones. Mine is a black Russian one, but the US sounded equally good too. The only con is that has some volume drop. But is smooth and spacial like no other I 've tried.
Sounds perfect
Thanks!
I recently picked up the wonderful Lost Highway dual phaser by Fender! Extremely versatile and sounds fantastic also has a +3dB boost switch on the back. I love that there are two phasers in one pedal. They can be fully independent, or you can ramp between the two with the sensitivity knob which controls the gate between them. I have the left side set for a slow Uni-Vibe like swirl and the other side is a nice Leslie rotary speaker sound.
I've been looking around for a decent phaser for some time now but none of them seem to be SLOW enough for me. I almost got the MXR Phase 95 but even all the way down the speed was just too much. For me, this one is just right!
I've found it useful for very subtle movement as well as Leslie like tones. I'm not a fan of the jet take off type phase and I rarely use phase and dirt at the same time. I mostly prefer just a nice clean subtle phase before my dirt pedals.
But one of the coolest things is that with the sensitivity knob you can blend in each of the settings with each other. For example, with the settings I have above and increase the sensitivity when you dig in and play harder you get some of the Leslie tone and when you play softer it goes away.
From the manual
"Sensitivity Knob:
When the Slow mode is engaged, the Sensitivity control adjusts the threshold for the Lost Highway’s dynamically controlled rate. As the Sensitivity is turned clockwise, the Lost Highway can automatically switch from Slow to Fast settings with the changes in your instrument’s volume-softer playing will keep the Lost Highway set to your Slow settings; louder playing will send the Lost Highway ramping up to your Fast settings. Turn the Sensitivity control fully counter-clockwise to disable this feature."
You sounds very gilmourish well played bro
Thanks!
Thank you Bjorn that you don't forgot my pedal also!
Love it!
@@gilmourishofficial thanks!
I'm getting the Keeley Dark side soon. It's a multiple peddel for that great Gilmour tone.
See my review here czcams.com/video/NUM9uyilZzU/video.html
You have great taste in gear
Blackout Effectors Whetstone and their Sibling as well.
The Whetstone can get classic MXR tones, as well as Uni-Vibe, Rotary, Vibrato, and even some Chorus sounds. All analog, and it has four settings to also do Ring Mod effects.
The Sibling I use as a tone sculptor, as it is an Optical Phaser, and has a great Volume boost, with ability to go below the 50/50 mix, so it just adds some flavor.
Hmm ....
Awesome🎸
Thanks!
What ever about the gear, you have great tone in your hands!
Thanks!
Great shirt...
Lovely entro too...
Thanks!
Wow! Great sound😜
Great T shirt!
HELL YEA THATS IT !
Omg love how you played dogs off the animals album. Good one!
looking forward to the arrival of my Phase in a few days \o/
This phase alone I like
I use a modded block phase 90, bought around '08 or '09. A friend of mine who worked for Caroline took out a resistor and it sounded warmer.
Just found your channel ...really cool! I'm going to need a T-SHIRT
Nice Hagstrom Swede in the background!
Yes! My main stage guitar. Love it!
As a huge Van Halen fan the phase 90 with the evh stripes is a no brainer for me. I use it for VH I tones mostly, but also sometimes use it for slower clean stuff.
Great video! I would love to see your comparison between phase 90 and phase 45, when you have the chance to do. Cheers!
Thanks for the tip!
Script 90 with 82K resistors in it is my overall favorite. I love the Small Stone V3 too with the volume drop mod and mix mod. Phase 45 is also classic and hard to beat. Univibe is legendary who doesn't love that sound. The DOD FX20B is on that list too, terribly underrated and sounds great. DOD201 and 490 are also great, but very similar to the 45 and 90.
Amazing Bjørn, you will make video of how to record guitars, rigth? I hope so, greatings, and by tha way, fantastic music, forever comes, one of my favorite albums
Thanks! Yes, I will. Stay tuned :)
Pink Floyd in a kiss t-shirt. I love it. I started high school in 1979 and Dynasty was #1.
Thanks for the video
Awesome!
i would love to hear Gilmore use a drybell vibe pedal and a unit 67
The phaser is heavily used on Wish you were here and Physical Graffiti albums ( so was the Fender Strat ) 😮
I use a MXR custom shop phase 90 with LED and a vibe unit from Prescription Electronics. I agree that one should put the phaser and vibe before distortion.
It depends on the tone that you are looking for, I usually put my phasers after drive, that way I get a grittier, more "nasty" sound out of it, that way it contrasts my friend's more soothing tone (my bandmate puts his phaser before the drives). What I also like to do is to use 2 phasers at the same time with different speeds, one is a phase 90 and the other one is a locally made phaser that has a depth control and a feedback control (how much of the signal feedbacks back to the phaser's circuit), very cool tones with it, combined with fast flanging gives a huge sound, good for 1 note leads (playing multiple notes with it is not recommended tho).
I agree with both, I run my pedal board with my mods running into my driver's and tube pre amps, but also I have a Boss BE-5 that runs it s compression and drives into delay and chorus but if you use the effects loop it isolates those from each other.
I went looking for a Phase 90 after I read a while back that you recommend it also for doubling for Univibe tones. Ended up with the Van Halen MXR Phase 90 with the vintage/modern switch.
I think about half my pedal board was based on your recommendations, actually :D
I've always loved my MXR Phase 90, it just has such an iconic sound to it and I always use it whenever I want to add a bit of a David Gilmour or Eddie Van Halen vibe to it (my two reasons/influences for buying the pedal)
Do you have the standard or the phaser? Wondering if the standard one is still
Good
MXR PHASE 90 IM GETTING A TC ELECTRONICS HELIX IT SOUNDS GREAT ON THE DEMOS!!!!!
Great video, Bjorn. Every time you upload, my GAS for a Lionheart20 increases! So good.
I agree, you can use any Phaser (I'm currently using an EHX Bad Stone instead of my Phase 90 script & block logo pedals, just for a change - it's starting to become one of my favourites, tied in first place with the classic script Phase90) but I'm wondering if there is a Phaser that can get you closer to Univibe sounds as well as classic Phaser. I've been told that a Phase45 can function as a "faux-Univibe". You mentioned that it's similar to a Univibe, so that has piqued my interest. I guess it's similar to the Chorus as "faux-Rotary" notion.
Thanks for the kind words! The Phase 45 is much more subtle compared to a UniVibe but it sounds very similar. The MXR Phase 95 has both the Phase 90 and 45. As does the Svi Sound Techno Phaser that I mentioned in the review. The Dunlop RotoVibe is perhaps the one pedal that I've found that can cover both phasing and UniVibe in one pedal with one effect.
Dogs is just friggin beautiful
Can you give us a tutorial on how to play that lick after the intro to shine on you crazy diamond? I like how it was really groovy and tight
Phaser as early in the signal chain as possible works best. Before overdrives always makes it sound better. Even Van Halen had it before his Marshall amp.
Doesn't always sound better. Depends on how you want the phase to sound. I have it in my loop of an es8 and moving it before and after the preamp I actually liked it in the loop better. To each their own.
Early in the chain as possible? Even before your wah?
Boss CS-2 next? Preferably in conjunction with another pedals. Cheers
Love my cs2. Probably the only compressor I'll ever use, especially with other effects.
I love the Cs2 also !, I’ve tried others compressors but didn’t like them ... the mxr still my best phaser , got an Hendrix/ Gilmour vibe , full and warm.
I found peace with the led script model, I sold the led block logo because it was too invasive. The script model has a truly vintage, balanced and more versatile character.
I have a Zoom MS70-CDR that I think has a couple of phaser options, but I think I'm going to start buying separate pedals, because with a multi-effects pedal, I can only have it in one spot, and some of the effects I want at different places in my signal chain.
HX Stomp allows you to place pedals in any order. And it's not that expensive. I don't know if that's the case for other other budget multi-FX pedals.
I like to think while you are playing with your head out of shot you are in full ace frehley stage makeup
Looking forward to hearing the new Album
Ha ha! Always wearing Ace's makeup :)
@@gilmourishofficial
Ha ha ha ha ha I knew it!
I notice the knob pretty much stays at around 11:30 o'clock for most of the video on most of the songs until you get to the rotary part. That seems to be the sweet spot of this pedal, especially for those Gilmour tones and songs. Although this pedal sounds great no matter where the rate is set, but the lower speeds really nail that univibe vibe. Would love to hear Have A Cigar!!! Can't believe you left that one out Bjorn! Is this leading up to a Phase 90 pt.2 video perhaps? Hmm.... 😜
I've done tons of clips with Have a Cigar so I thought I'd left that one out this time. The Phase 90 can do lots of different tones. Setting it at 8:30 nails those Van Halen tones. Cheers!
@@gilmourishofficial oh no worries jk, I've seen several vids where you play that riff and you do it well! I always wanted to learn that one, i think it's one of his most funkiest moments that's what I love about it. He really uses that effect to it's full potential all over that album in particular. A very prominent early 70s sound indeed. I always wondered if the sounds on "Time" and "Breathe" were created with a phaser or a univibe, or maybe both? I know there was also a strong Leslie influence as well... which adds a strong chorusing and rotary effect into the mix. I'll definitely have to keep that in mind for the EVH tones, the "brown sound"! I recently required an all original vintage Phase 90 from 1974 in great condition! It sounds amazing! So mellow and warm and groovy and organic sounding, and the effect is alot more subtle and less dramatic/overbearing than the modern recreations and incarnations.
I saw a "vintage" one at a shop over the weekend and really regret no buying it!
LOVE the KISS shirt!
Thanks! My fav band!
@@gilmourishofficial KISS rocks. I like to see people who like both because many people who like Floyd are snobby about KISS music.
Nice T-shirt
I have a mooer ninety orange. I mostly use the vintage mode.
I have it and it's so powerful...love it
Had it and replaced it with a mxr 95. Since I leave the knobs untouched when I get the right tone out of them I didn't notice that much of a difference..!
Mooer Elec Lady is incredible too
@@alexmurphy5289 I have that as well.
Very similar to my ears!
Nice, very interesting!!!Thank you.
Now I am pretty sure that David Gilmour used Univibe on Dark Side Of The Moon and Phaser on Wish You Were Here!
Breathe and Any Color sound better with Univibe.
I am lucky to own one but I do not own a Phase 90!!!
Going to afford me one 😂
Thank you 🎉
Absolutely. It's documented on my site www.gilmourish.com 😉 The idea here was to show that you can use the Phase 90 for different tones and, in fact, Dvaid did use the Phase 90 for Breathe dunring the 1974-75 leg of the Dark Side tour. The UniVibe was eventually taken off the board.
Have you compared the MXR Van Halen phase next to the custom shop phase 90. I think the Van Halen phase has a 'script' button that is supposed to make it sound more vintage. Your demo was great.
Thanks! Yes, the VH is very similar. The CS has hard wire bypass, which rolls off some high end, but they also got one with led and true bypass, which I assume, is more or less identical to the VH.