Plugging ancient Lexicon reverbs into my music rig

New specialized audio cables arrived today, which means I can finally plug in my (newly aquired from ebay used and ancient) Lexicon MPX1 and MX400 reverbs into my music.

Via ancient Emu Proteus Orchestra rackmount send and receives 1 and 2.

With Roland XP-80 controller.

This post will be nonsensical to most, but for old sound engineers, enjoy : )

Yes, I use floppy disks for sequencing.
Haters gonna hate : (

The time signature of 2/4 in
11.11.11.11.9.9 meter
will likely befuddle many.

Such is life.

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Tom's notes 7

  1. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Joe Maher

    that's the newer cow / barn plastic tablecloth on my kitchen table.
    Easy to clean with a wet sponge.

    I replaced the older, uglier chicken / barn tablecloth.
    Also easy to clean, but harder on the eyes.

  2. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ray Freudenberg

    I have cassettes and minidiscs.
    I recently acquired a bunch of old (obsolete) minidiscs, which are far more fun than analogue cassettes to make mix tapes.

  3. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Henrik Eiriksson

    the sequencer on the XP-80 is better than the MC-50 standalone sequencer I had 30 years ago.
    But the memory only holds one song at a time, which is frustrating.
    So I acquired 50 IBM floppy discs, some in the original packaging from 1996.

  4. Tom Kirkman

    Wes P. yep, 3.5" floppy disk.
    These floppies are darn near indestructible. More so than thumb drives, or CDs which are easily scratched.

  5. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Aled Long

    I will finally get to layer 3 Lexicon reverbs into my mix. Long time wish. Ebay old hardware rackmount stuff that nobody wants these days.
    Lexicon MPX1 / MX 400 / Reflex layered into the back mix.
    I can hear it in my head, but shortly I will (hopefully) finally hear it in real life.
    The hard wire connections are a serious problem.
    My synth setup is unbalanced, but the MPX1 is balanced.
    Later this month I will try spdif connections in daisy chain, when those audio cables arrive.

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