
mentoneman
Well-known member
so i bought the tc 2290 after lusting for 20 years, only to discover it didn't work right
but it was kinda a blessing in disguise-i turned the money around to fund a present/guitar for my son who is graduating police academy soon ( thanks uncle zach
) and helping him buy a replacement car after someone nailed his and insurance didn't cover the broken axle repair.
also re-evaluated my "need" for additional gear. i envision what the cool gear will achieve tone-wise, but right now i'm in a great place for cool tone with simplicity; a pedal/rack rig that switches presets and pedal combinations pretty instantly, and my rig not needing a mixer, a splitter, extra rack space, etc at the moment.
on the other hand, i just modded my lexicon pcm 80 with the v1.1 eprom, full 40 second memory, and both pitch and dual fx cards on the ready, and rather than the big swap to mixerworld, i think i'll run it in series with my gforce digitally, to increase the space and size of my tone in the way only lexicon can. maybe not as clean as parallel mixer but SO much easier!
i've seen landau gig with his lexicon mpx-1 sitting on his amp, set for one or two tones, and just changed presets with his hands between songs--no midi. i originally ran my gforce this way---one preset with delay and verb---set and forget, for a year or two live. now that i have the gforce changing a few presets via midi live in my current rig, i'll just set the pcm 80 for one sound for now, and experiment with other sounds in it over time.
italo's got a great custom pcm 80/81 preset library with crystal/ice presets, holdsworth sounds, landau chorus patches, and classic pcm tones that i'll buy for sure! and probably my friend's asat tele sitting next to me at the moment!

but it was kinda a blessing in disguise-i turned the money around to fund a present/guitar for my son who is graduating police academy soon ( thanks uncle zach

also re-evaluated my "need" for additional gear. i envision what the cool gear will achieve tone-wise, but right now i'm in a great place for cool tone with simplicity; a pedal/rack rig that switches presets and pedal combinations pretty instantly, and my rig not needing a mixer, a splitter, extra rack space, etc at the moment.
on the other hand, i just modded my lexicon pcm 80 with the v1.1 eprom, full 40 second memory, and both pitch and dual fx cards on the ready, and rather than the big swap to mixerworld, i think i'll run it in series with my gforce digitally, to increase the space and size of my tone in the way only lexicon can. maybe not as clean as parallel mixer but SO much easier!
i've seen landau gig with his lexicon mpx-1 sitting on his amp, set for one or two tones, and just changed presets with his hands between songs--no midi. i originally ran my gforce this way---one preset with delay and verb---set and forget, for a year or two live. now that i have the gforce changing a few presets via midi live in my current rig, i'll just set the pcm 80 for one sound for now, and experiment with other sounds in it over time.
italo's got a great custom pcm 80/81 preset library with crystal/ice presets, holdsworth sounds, landau chorus patches, and classic pcm tones that i'll buy for sure! and probably my friend's asat tele sitting next to me at the moment!
