How It Was Recorded

Gear · reverb

Yamaha SPX900

Digital multi-effects processor, 1988 onwards. Digital processor offering reverbs, delays, modulation, gates and combined multi-effect programmes, with full 20 Hz-20 kHz bandwidth and MIDI.

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Records it appears on · 1

  • Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

    Moby · Play, 1999

    • Sampled gospel vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedProvided the reverb on the piano and the vocals, which Moby gives as one of the few effects on the track.

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A reverb built on the methods of 1980s digital units like this one, which is the job it did on the record; it is not a model of this unit and does not cover its other effects.

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