Re: LEXICON pcm 81 gear lust

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 12:17 PM -0500 1/6/03, dcoffin@taunton.com wrote:
>  These are deep boxes, certainly, but I sold a PCM80 I'd lusted after for
>years after about 2 months, because I was so underwhelmed by it as a
>mangler/complexifier. I did NOT discover it to be an FX playground....but
>then, I have kind of a modular predisposition when it comes to fx design,
>and the 80/81s are decidedly not multifx. Maybe I bailed too soon, and
>you'll have better luck/more persistence....

I was similarly unimpressed when I first fired up my PCM80, but one 
night I was showing it to a friend and after he left I kept playing 
with it for hours. Lexicon processors have a certain quality of sound 
and consistency of user interface that is elegant and "musical." 
Still, when it comes to performance mangling I prefer Eventides and 
normally use three of them. The Lexicons sit in studio rack and never 
hit the road.
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