Re: Re[2]: Vortex Applications Notes

[Jon Durant <74074.1316@CompuServe.COM>]

Todd wrote:
>It does take time, and I'm unsure if the patches I posted earlier helped
>anyone, however, I'd like to see some patches others have tried.  And 
>>yeah,if
I went to Guitar Center now, I could totally and completely >DESTROY minds 
with
some sounds I could create on the fly!

If only there were more of you out there, Todd and Andre, this box might 
have
actually sold. Did I tell you about the demo I received when I popped by a 
store
in Nashville (in disguise, of course) that had been trained not two weeks 
prior?
(Q: What's a Vortex? A: It's a trick reverb) Or about the Guitar Center in 
the
San Jose area (can't remember now which city) that had a really noisy 
patch bay
and said it was the Vortex making all that buzzing? 

The thing that really pushed me over the edge, however, was when the UK
distributor said at an international marketing/bitching meeting 
(w/distributors
from Germany, France, Italy and England): "I can't believe Lexicon doesn't 
make
a delay box any more!" To which I replied, "Andrew, we make two. And the 
reason
you can't sell JamMan and Vortex is because you don't know what a delay 
box is."
This, of course, got me into big trouble with the President of Lexland, 
but it
also scored me a trip to London in time for Christmas, where I had a 
lovely time
hanging with Warren Cucurullo (a JamMan fanatic). But the point is that 
there's
only a handful of people who have a clue about this stuff. If we'd named 
JamMan
the PCM-43, and Vortex the PCM-44 people might have got it: logical 
extensions
of the PCM 41 and 42. But, we opted for cute and got burned.

Sorry for spewing more dirt, but the people need to know...

Later,
Jon Durant