Re: LXP5 Problem - Stereo Output Now Mono

["Kris Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

The Lexicon group just pointed out the problem.  The LXP5 and LXP1 bridge 
the L/R inputs into mono. So I need to put the LXP5 as first in my signal 
chain, before the VF-1. What a drag.

k-

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: LXP5 Problem - Stereo Output Now Mono


> On 12 mar 2006, at 06.15, Kris Hartung wrote:
>
>> I'm having some problems with my Lexicon LXP5.  It seems to be  
>producing 
>> a mono output even though I'm using both L and R outputs  to my board, 
>> plus using both L and R inputs from my Boss VF1. I  tested this by 
>using 
>> a panned delay on my VF1 and removing the  LXP5. The panning is there. 
>> Add the LXP5 and the stereo output is  bridged into a mono signal. Even 
>> the factory default LXP5 patches  do this. I don't recall this unit 
>doing 
>> this last year, so somehow  I've changed something on the unit via 
>MIDI, 
>> or the the hardware  has gone haywire.
>>
>> Anyone know what might be causing this?
>
>
> Hard to tell on so little information given out on the problem. The  
>most 
> important fact is if you daisy chain the LXP5 in the signal  chain or if 
> you put it all wet at an effect send/return loop of a  mixer? And if 
> course if the way you are now connecting it is the same  as you did last 
> year, when you "had stereo".
>
> Then it also depends on what you use the LXP5 for. Some presets  change 
> the input stereo spread more than others. I have a LXP5 but I  never 
>used 
> it for anything except reverb and I always put it in a  send/return 
>effect 
> loop on a mixer. I never bothered to feed it a  stereo input either, 
> because I thought it sounded cool anyway. But it  was, and is, 
>definitely 
> putting out a stereo signal.
>
> When using a stereo input to the LXP5 the most affected parameters  are 
> the early reflection bounces in some reverb/delay ("multi")  patches, if 
> my manual readers memory serves me right (my Lexicon  manual got lost 
> somewhere back in the early nineties).
>
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