Lexicon MPX500 for Ambient Guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Ambient guitar with smooth reverb trail provided by Lexicon MPX500.
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I used Lexicon MPX500 stock program 106 "The Abyss". Modified settings are:
Dtuning 0
HF RllOff 4.4 kHz
Efx Bal 31:69%
Mix 67%
Pch L -2
Interval L Unison
Pch R 2
Interval R Unison
Pch Dly 40ms
Pch Fbk -85%
Decay 65.39s
Bass Mult 0.4x
PreDelay 0ms
Size 76.0m
Diffusion 100%
Rt HC 2.4 kHz
another beautiful sound could listen to this all night , i got an MPX 500 today well pleased. Thanks very much.
Thank you for your kind words :) I am glad you are satisfied with the unit. I wish it sparks more and more creativity for you :)
Sound is amazing! Especially in the night when stars flushing on the sky. Thank you for publishing rhis video! :)
Thank you :)
As a eurorack synth user I'm looking forward to getting lush reverbs like this without having to spend 600 euro on a dedicated eurorack module (used MPX500 are far less expensive). This is exactly the type of sound I want from a dedicated reverb. Thanks for this lovely demonstration.
MPX500 packs a lot within the price you pay. I had PCM80 and it can do more tricks and sounds, but with much more programming. I did some side to side videos and have some more to come (if I find the time :) ... but to cut the long story short... simplicity and sounds of MPX500 are good enough for my needs. I wish you much fun with it!
@@BrankoOgorelec Thanks!
Well done its sounds fantastic and magical ! I've got the classic PCM-70 and LXP1 - I love everything about them, i think to expand my collection to a mpx550 also
Thank you 🙂 MPX500 can do excellent things considering the price range. I've created one comparison with PCM80, and another is on the way. PCM80 can go much further than MPX500 when programmed. Choruses of all sorts, multitap delays swirling around, diffusion that does wonders, reverbs with all sorts of goodness. On the other hand, MPX500 is simpler but still can do lovely things and with less programming. Also, with some reverbs MPX500 goes very close to PCM80. I wish you much fun with MP550!
Coming back to this video again.
MPX500 is a powerful machine. It has excellent standard reverbs and also amazes me with this kind of modulated reverb trails :)
Sounds incredible. Better than the Strymon Reverb you were emulating.
Thank you :-) I never owned Strymon so I don't know. All I know this sounds amazing and Lexicon MPX500 is overlooked and underestimated. Recently I purchased PCM80 and I can say that MPX500 comes very very close to PCM80 when it comes to reverb. PCM80 packs more features, but if someone is looking for rack reverb primarily - I would say MPX500 is enough.
@@BrankoOgorelec You really found a gem here.
This video is no doubt largely responsible for selling people like myself on the idea of picking up vintage, mid-tier Lexicon rack effects processors! As I await delivery of an MPX-1, I revisit this often.
Thank you for helping steer me away from an MX(200) and toward MPX!
@@chiefbucknell I haven't tried MX200. From what I see in manual, I don't think one can get this kind of reverb trail on MX200. It is a very nice reverb, but this is not included. As for MPX-1, that's excellent choice for everything. It can cover something similar to this without much programming, just by using native hall reverb with chorus modulation. And of course - it can cover many other lovely things needed by guitarists and musicians :)
Nice verb, lovely guitar.
@TheStudioDrummer Thanks! Yes - this is a very nice verb. I'm glad I found it in this box :)
mesmerizing, love those reverb tails.
Yep! Mesmerizing is the word :)
Sounds so aweeesooome!
Thank you :-)
I own the big sky. This blows it away.
I really don't know about big sky. I hear very nice examples on youtube, but never tried it. As for MPX500, it amazes me all this time :)
@@BrankoOgorelec You might like Source Audio Ventris, I ab with my big sky and Ventris is the cleanest clearest reverb I have ever heard. You can also create any reverb in the world if you hook it up to your computer and make your own presets. It has 2 stereo reverb engines in it as well.
@@John-e4p1x Thank you for this info, Ventris sounds very nice! Have you played with Eventide rack units? I heard many nice sounding samples on youtube, but for now those units are out of my budget.
@@BrankoOgorelec I have the Space it is beautiful.
I also had Pitchfactor, beautiful interesting pedal.
I have a ver 2.0 firmware one of these. I admit, since I got it again, I have hardly used it due to using plugins. This definitely sounds gorgeous what you're using.
Thank you :) Mine has 1.04 firmware. I'm not into plugins, just need some decent reverb for guitar playing and this one fits perfectly. I didn't expect to find this kind of a sound in it. Decent reverb - yes... but not this thing. Nice surprise :)
@@BrankoOgorelec I've owned 2 of these over the years. They actually make a great inline multi fx for FOH on PA as well. Low noise and high bang for buck. I'm just lazy with my external routing as of late. More in the box.
@@tonycarpenter-Makzimia Yes, I've seen comments on using it that way. Previous owner was primarily using it that way. It is also very sturdy unit, judging for how many years he gigged it around like that.
Tengo un MPX 500 y es genial!!
Buen video amigo !!
Saludos
Gracias :-)
Was looking at the MX200 but this sounds waaay better. Wow! I love how the reverb tones back the next played notes into subtle over-tones ..
Question; Does hardware reverb stack well?
As in, does it duplicate off itself to make the trail even longer if you chain two of them together? I want to say it does, from my experience and educated guessing, but, not trying to speak for the hardware if all I have is software reverb, so far.
Just wondering if I can get an even longer trail (I work in Ambient, where reverb is big, obviously) if I stack them (say like, two or three of them, even) to get up near like 10 or 20 or 30 seconds of reverb or more since the hardware has it's limitations and I might need more tail end later on ..
Yes? No ? Stackable ?
I don't know how it behaves when you stack it. I only have one unit for reverb and it provides a trail that is long enough for my needs.
Ah .. Darn .. Ok, thanks for the reply! Ciao
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does this spilt mono input to stereo output or both chanels? I have mono tube preamp and thinking to buy one.
This is mono input to stereo output. These longer reverbs should be played/recorded stereo to get the maximum ambience out of it. From your mono preamp go to MX500. From MX500 go to stereo power setup (two studio monitors... stereo poweramp with two cabs... or two combo amps). Or run MX500 in FX loop, but then FX loop needs to be stereo with your rig having stereo output too.
@@BrankoOgorelec Sadly I don't have option for stereo fx loop. I have Koch Pedaltone pre amp and Palmer Match 402 power amp. Old KMD cab witch I have mod to stereo cab. Guy who sell this product test this kind a setup and it seems that its not work in mono to stereo... I think Alsesis Midiverb 4 have this kind a mono to stereo chance.
@@teemusekki1743 From what I see, you should be able to connect MPX500 into your setup. From your preamp into the MPX500 mono. From MPX500 stereo into poweramp. MPX patches should not be wet only, there should be some dry signal coming through. That is one of 16 parameters on every patch you create, so it can be done. Your cab is moded to stereo, so poweramp can provide stereo signal to it. Soundscape will not be wide since it is only one box, but it is a good starting point. Later on you can have two separate cabs and place them apart to get better stereo soundscape.
How 's the signal goes... guitar -> MPX500 -> amp? Or do you use a mixer/fx loop?
I had it connected like this: Guitar -> Vox Tonelab ST -> G-Major2 -> MPX500 -> Recorder. However G-Major2 was not used in this track at all. Also these days I will change the setup because I acquired Avid Eleven Rack. 11R will be replacing Tonelab, G-Major and even recorder since it has USB interface. MPX500 is now within FX loop of 11R.
And what did you modified on factory preset 106? I have also a MPX500 and i like the smooth reverb you have here!! Will you share your setting?
I added the settings into description of the video. Let me know how it goes... and have fun with it :-)
@U tube fun Thanks! Yes it can sound dry. It depends on the mood and personal taste. Sometimes I just use it like that, and sometimes I add more reverb so guitar blends in deeper.
@U tube fun For a simple home setup it is amazing :)
Hi, what program number did you use? very beautifull !!!
Thank you! I modified program "The Abyss", factory original is at number 106. I never thought this is possible with MPX500. I bought it to play with something until I save enough for Strymon BigSky... and now I don't think I'll need it :-)
Branko Ogorelec Can you tell me the effects and parameters of that patch? I have a Lexicon MPX300 that has only 99 patches, none of which is the abyss.
Hey Bob sorry - somehow I missed your comment. I don't know if you can do this with MPX300. Abyss program is some sort of pitch before reverb. Avalanche of ascending/descending pitch detunes are hitting reverb. I tried recreating this with dual programs of pitch into reverb but it never sounded exactly the same. Close though. I found somewhere that Abyss was created for PCM80 as additional program that came on a separate memory card. So for starters - do you have dual program "pitch into reverb" on MPX300? If so, I can make a short video with settings of my reverse engineered Abyss so you can try doing the same on MPX300.
You might be able to do this with the MX400-on that one, you can have a full-fledged stereo detune (w/delays & feedback, which you need here) and reverbs with the "full" set of controls (you can see those in the MX300 when you run just 1 algorithm, but you need the MX400 to run two "full" algorithms like that).
What tuning or chords or scale is this?
E Major dominates. It's slow playing - play along and you will figure it easily.
Just so beautiful
@@John-e4p1x Thanks :)