Using outboard gear with PC recording?

DennyFast · Post by **DennyFast** » 3 Feb 2004 8:30 am

I've been recording already with my PC using reverb plugins which are nice but! I just bought the Lexicon PMX110 rackmount reverb, and I just can't get the setup right. I have a external soundcard which helps and 18chan exter. board too.
What I'm tryin to do is add the Lexicon reverb to recorded dry trks.! I've gotten close to it once but the return signal is very low. I tried a line mixer but it changed the quality of the trk. I've talked to just about everybody with no luck. I hope somebody hear can help me.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 4 Feb 2004 7:28 am

I've only got experience running my cassette deck and turntable into the soundcard. If your signal level is low you might try a preamp to get it back up to the soundcard input level (about 100 mv, I think). I bought a unit through Radio Shack; it was only available online at a cost of about 30 bucks.

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Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 4 Feb 2004 8:33 am

If you only have a stero in/out soundcard, the only way I can think of is to run the output from your card to your ext mixer (two tracks, panned hard left/right), connect the Lexicon through the mixers AUX send/returns, add the reverb you want using the AUX controls, and mix down to an external device (preferably a DAT, but anything will do).

If you have a soundcard with multiple ins/outs and a recording software (Logic, Cubase, PT, etc) with internal mixer and VST send/returns, you can run the VST effects out through output 3&4 (for example) on your card, into the Lexicon, back from Lexicon through input 3&4, and add the desired effect using the VST controls in your software's mixer.
You should find this explained in detail in your software's manual.

In both instances you need to set the Lexicon to 100% 'wet'.

Hope this was of some help and not only added to the confusion....

Steinar

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DennyFast · Post by **DennyFast** » 5 Feb 2004 5:55 am

Thank you both for the replies and advice, I'll try both and see if it will work! My soundcard does have stereo in and out, I'm using CEP2.0 and Cubase 5.1 I'll let you know how it works! Thank again.....Denny

winston · Post by **winston** » 5 Feb 2004 12:00 pm

Why not just use the effects in CEP?

DennyFast · Post by **DennyFast** » 7 Feb 2004 9:17 am

Wiston, because of the quality and sound of the Lexicon Reverb! Lexicon makes a software version for download but only for Mac's! not PC"S like I use.

Dr. Hugh Jeffreys · Post by **Dr. Hugh Jeffreys** » 7 Feb 2004 10:25 am

I use an external stereo compressor; it has all the gain I need. Also I use Cakewalk Sonar 3.0 which is the best software available (I think): it has it all. Hugh www.steelguitarbyhughjeffreys.com