Jakem
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Anyone use one? How do You like this unit?
glpg80
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I wish I owned one. I love the reverb sounds on them more than my 81, but my 81 does one thing amazingly well and I’m not hard pressed to upgrade anytime soon.
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Geo
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If you want the Lexicon sound and don't want to buy used, it's the only choice.
fusedbrain
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I've had one since they first came out.
Used it in a recording/mix rig back when plugin reverb and delays sounded like donkey balls.
The pcm96 or the Bricasti m7 were the gold standard of hardware reverb and delays, and probably still are, along with the high end eventide stuff.
There were some issues with plugin functionality and claimed connectivity functions that never really worked correctly, but I sent it a stereo aes/ebu signal and brought the analog outs back into my analog mixer.
Used it on a ton of mixes, and it sounded killer for realistic spaces and ambience. Never really dug into it for special effect type sounds like chorus, flange etc.
I think it would be overkill in a guitar rig, but with the evolution of plugins these days, this kind of studio hardware may be available at low cost on the used market. Don't know, haven't looked in years.
Stellar sounding unit, but depending on pricing, you may want to look at eventide hardware for the types of effects guitarists would gravitate towards for a rack rig.
Used it in a recording/mix rig back when plugin reverb and delays sounded like donkey balls.
The pcm96 or the Bricasti m7 were the gold standard of hardware reverb and delays, and probably still are, along with the high end eventide stuff.
There were some issues with plugin functionality and claimed connectivity functions that never really worked correctly, but I sent it a stereo aes/ebu signal and brought the analog outs back into my analog mixer.
Used it on a ton of mixes, and it sounded killer for realistic spaces and ambience. Never really dug into it for special effect type sounds like chorus, flange etc.
I think it would be overkill in a guitar rig, but with the evolution of plugins these days, this kind of studio hardware may be available at low cost on the used market. Don't know, haven't looked in years.
Stellar sounding unit, but depending on pricing, you may want to look at eventide hardware for the types of effects guitarists would gravitate towards for a rack rig.
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Geo
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How about an MPX 1?
Lexicon sound, fairly inexpensive.
Lexicon sound, fairly inexpensive.
glpg80
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I don’t think people understand just how much horsepower the PCM96 provides to reverb and how great it sounds. I’d own one over a plugin if I could afford it and didn’t have the PCM81.
fusedbrain
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Yeah, the PCM96 is beast. I used to run it with 2 parralel engines, set up as mono in/stero out, with each side of the digital input feeding a dedicated engine producing a stereo output. It could reproduce 2 totally independent stereo ambience effects that would blow your mind, and never break a sweat.
People don't understand that the type of signal processing and dsp required to produce world class reverb and delay for high end audio is very difficult / impossible to reproduce with a PC.
The dsp in the hardware boxes a a completely different topology to what is in a pc, and the hardware can dedicate massive amounts of ram to the signal processing that a pc just can't match.
Jakem
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Thanks for the comments! Let’s hope Eventide releases a 1U rack successor to the Eclipse!
