Lexicon LXP-1

easy to get a good sound, manual is ok just use decay, delay and preset knobs to get the reverb sound you are looking for. Set the input, output, and mix control (the mix control affects the depth and level of the effects ) so don't overdo it. You have to re- adjust the delay and decay everytime you change a preset. decay is reverb time, delay is pre delay for reveb. reverb is the best feature of this unit.

very good reverb, the unit has very little noise if any unless you turn the output, mix level, and input all the way up. set the levels right and no noise at all and you get plenty of signal for recording through a mixer console or going directly to a guitar amp. I don't know why everyone raves about the pcm 60 and 70 sounding so much better than this unit because this unit has higher spechs,pcm60-70 ,use pcm/53 ada converter and lxp1 uses pcm/54 ada converter and has the lexichip wereas the pcm units use aru chips, (128 steps per program,) the lexichip has 256 steps per program, also the lexichip has all the information of the aru chip and is faster, so someone please tell me how they sound better for reverbs than the lxp 1. I have read this information for myself and I don't believe the pcm60-70 will beat it for good old reverbs. I think this pcm stuff is nostalgic just because they were the first fairly affordable units and studios used them.If I am wrong I'd like to hear the difference. BTW, I opened up my lxp1 and saw the lexichip and pcm converter for myself. there my be different algorithms on the 60-70 maybe more tweakable but no better quality reverb than lxp1. sorry about the long post but I get tired of all this hype about pcm60s being so great and still pretty expensive for a unit this old. Just my 2 cents worth. one more thing, the pcm 60 sampling frequency is 24.5 KHZ vs lxp1 31.25 KHZ. I think they're both 16-bit, I know the lxp1 is. If you have read all of this, thanks for putting up with me but I still believe I'm right..

would use without a backup, seems very sturdy. This unit has an internal battery so if you own one and had it for a while and it starts acting strange check the battery first and be sure it is not dead. I have a peavey amr reverb (addverb) unit that started acting crazy and the battery was dead so I took it out and never replaced it, all I have to do is reinitalize the unit when I turn it on and I can use all the factory presets, works just fine.

dealt with them one time, e-mailed me within 2-3 hours and answered my question.

I play gospel, bluegrass, country and do a lot of home recording. been playing40+ years. I also own a lot of reverb units including a lexicon mpx 110 and the 110 sounds just as smooth and good as the lxp1 if you know how to set it. believe me, I'v a/b them both and they both have the same quality reverbs. people are not giving the mpx 110 a fair chance I guess maybe because it is so cheap and no one expects to find quality this cheap, keep the mix control on the mpx 110 1-2 o'clock and when you change parameters you have to re- adjust the bal/level and the adjust control and you won't get any squashed sound. always be sure to keep the mix control between 1-2 o'clock, you get a lot more headroom this way and plenty wet signal along with direct signal. works great this way.

Very easy to get a sound out of it, considering that the parameters are accesible through the front knobs and you have limited but powerful controls.

Simply put: amazing for the price. It's in the same price range as the Boss Reverb pedals and the Holy Grail line. Sound quality wise it completely blows away the Boss stuff and is better than the Holy Grails. This is the Lexicon 80s reverb sound, but in a scaled down unit. All the algorithms sound incredible to me. Does a wonderful delay also. The Chorus mode is lame, you can get a much better sounding chorus from a stompbox.

I've had a couple of issues with it: I had to clean out the pots because they were very "scratchy", but that's reasonable considering it's a vintage 80s unit. Depending on the gig I can get some serious hum from it also, but I take care of that with an Ebtech Hum Eliminator. The hum is not from the unit being noisy or cheap components, it's mainly from the power source. At home for example it's super quiet, but at certain places it gets the hum. Like I said when I get that I just plug the Hum Eliminator in the chain and problem solved. It's biult very solidly, the casing is metal and the knobs are plastic.

Haven't had to call them

I play jazz, funk, rock, pop. I've been playing for 17 years and I'm a full time professional guitar player. I've tried many reverb options and this is by far the best bang for the buck. I used to have an MPX-1 but the truth is that I don't like multi effects units and I like to keep things simple: get a piece of gear that does 1-2 thing great for each application I need it for. This does amazing reverbs and is simple to use. I use it in the effects loop of my Fender Deville 2x12. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a warm high quality reverb.

Very easy to get nice sounds out of this unit. Even easier with the MRC I own 2 Lxp-1's, 1 Lxp-5 and the MRC. And even some old dos editors that never helped much. Running Dos In this day and age isn't Preferred. Most people talk about the verbs but now days im into more transparent effects so im incorporating the chourus, invert and reso. but small to med. rooms still get used.

Love the sound for the price.

Very reliable unless your internal batt. is getting weak these units are getting up there in age.

there is no support any more but back in the day I had the phone # right to greg's desk in Mass.

I use these units on our P.A. mostly verb on drums, chourus and short delay on vox. I play Guitar with a working New and Classic rock band.
One thing i would like to add is when replacing the internal batt. because its mounted upright buy a larger capacity 3v they last longer just spot weld 2 legs on it I have done this with all 4 of my older Lexicon's and it works great. thats the only thing thats gone wrong with mine.

Pretty easy to use, but I find that it's bothersome when the knob position doesn't reflect the internal adjustments of the parameters.

The manual is acceptable.

One tricky point is that you need a special MIDI controller to do adjust the internal parameters. I didn't know that before I bought the unit.

Nice reverbs. I like them better than Yamaha SPX90 and Yamaha R100 reverbs, but not as well as TC Electronic M300, Boss SX-700, Sony DPS-V55 or Yamaha REV500 reverbs.

I don't care for the chorus or delay.

This is a fragile unit, partly due to its age, partly due to the fact that the in/out jacks are plastic. When I bought the unit used, most jacks were either loose, cracked or damaged.

The rest of the unit is stout.

Non-existent customer support.

Lexicon no longer repairs these units. Lexicon will give you the name of the only guy in the country who still fixes these units, and he is unresponsive due to health problems.

I play rock guitar, strictly an amatuer, but I'm picky about sound. I would not buy another LXP-1 if I lost this one, primarily due to the fragility and the inability to get parts and service. I'll probably give away the unit I have to someone who needs parts.

I've owned and liked the TC Electronic M300, Boss SX-700, Sony DPS-V55 and Yamaha REV500 reverbs better, and none of these units are as old or fragile as the LXP-1.

it doesn"t get any easier to operate a unit than this one.i bought mine second hand,with no book, no problem.Dial up what you need and use it.

I use my verb for live music. i play fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar. i run all of their signals through my mackie and run my verb to each channell through effects sends etc. it has become a part of my tone along with pre amps and e q"s.

i"ve had mine for 5 years, with no problem

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i play country and rock and roll. i have been hacking at this for 30 years. i would replace it immediatley if it ran off. it"s all about TONE folks and this is the best live verb around bar none i have heard them all.

Good preset verbs from the front knobs, but you'll need a midi/sysex editor to edit parameters other than decay and predelay (for reverbs).

Really nice room and plate reverbs, not very bright but very usable for a lot of applications. I use it in the studio, and it will end up in most mixes in one way or another, often room setting for percussion and drums, sometimes longer verbs for backing vocals etc. Never use the other effects though (chorus, delay). With a sysex editor it becomes much more useful with more parameter control, but to be honest I don't do that very often nowadays.

My unit (used to have two) has been dropped a couple of times, and moved around but still functions as fine as it did 10 years ago. Very sturdy.

Don't know really, never tried it.

A simple not so pricey workhorse that still finds use in my studio and others. Would not break my back to replace it though if I lost it.

As easy as it gets.

I'm using it with Logic 5.1 on a Mac/G4. It just blows away software reverbs. Night and day. Plus frees up system resources and it's so cheap now. I really wonder why people obsess about the best software plug-in reverbs that take 60% of your CPU, when you can pick up a used Lexicon for next to nothing and sound much better.

no problems yet.

For the money it's great - compared to UAD-1 Realverb card, Logic reverbs, Lexiverb, and Waves Ren Verb. It's as good if not better.

Well east 2 use, but even better with the MRC!

Effects quality is astounding for a unit of this price/size/age, it has a richness other effects boxes can only dream of.

Never had a problem with it, though I hate the bulky & heavy external power supply.

Don't know

I'm an engineer who has used reverb units costing twelve grand and although this unit doesn't compare in terms of realism it certainly does have that certain magic quality to it's presets that is often missing in units costing 10 times as much. Fantastic unit for the money, I use it on every vocal I record and couldn't part with it, the MRC controller was way ahead of it's time and puts the wayward MIDI implementation back into perspective, shame it doesn't work in 'true' stereo, but I guess they're cheap enough 2 buy 2!

This is a very simple unit. first you dial up one of the factory presets, then you can tweak the decal or the delay. it is that simple. no menus, no confusion. i havent tried any MIDI editing, however.

i have other reverb/delay units (ART, Digitech) and my first impression of the LXP-1 was that it was richer and had a more vintage sound to it. the reverb decay seems smoother than on my other processors. One thing that kind of bothers me about this unit is that with all settings, the initial echo is soft, then there is a volume swell on a subsequent echo, then it begins to decay gradually. in other words, the effect gets louder before it gets softer. I havent been able to rid myself of this using the MIX knob. It doesnt necessarily sound bad, but the fact that i cannot tweak it bothers me.

this is an old model and is in good shape. The guts look very secure as well except for the curious way the internal battery is held in place on its edge on the PC board by a huge glob of hot glue. is that the best you can do, LEX?

i called for a manual, and they were polite and efficient.

i am quite pleased.
the only thing i'd like to see different would be having a smooth linear taper on the DELAY knob instead of detents at a specified step. currently, if the delay is at say 100msec, you cannot slightly tweak it to 102msec, you have to go to the next click which may be at 125msec, etc. takes away some tweakability, but with shorter delays its no big problem.

Basic functions can be done from the front of it. More complex and detailed adjustments can be done using the MRC controller which I have.

The sound quality is excellent. I've had, and still have numerous other effect units and this one is one of my favorites. I feel that it sounds better than most new units out. It has the sound that you want for vocals. When you hear it, you realize why pro studios still have these. It does not sound like the new cheap lexicon reverbs at all. There is no comparison. The new units like the MPX 100, 500, 200, and so on do not sound like the older lexicon units at all!!!!

Studio use only

Haven't dealt with them.

If you want a classic reverb sound that sounds natural and enhances your sound, especially vocals, do not get the newer lexicon reverbs, they are junk. Get one of these. They sound better and are a fraction of the price. Use one of these with the MRC and no one will beleive what you are using when they hear your finished product!

Very straightforward to use, presets are great and easy to edit, just a couple of knobs, their was no manual with mine, but I dont need it, I guess you would like to have one if you were edting via midi but I dont so no problem there, mine is software version 1.0

I use this for recording via a mixer, its a good all rounder, there are other units that I would rather use for vocal reverbs, but that is just my personal taste, I tend to use it for instruments most of the time, although its good for any source really. It can be noisy if you aren't careful about setting up the levels, and it can overload easily, but providing you take care in setting up, these things are not a problem. All in all, lexicon have chosen good algorithms here.

Very well built, very reliable.

UK support very efficient, I live near Stirling Audio so it was very convenient when I lost my power supply and had to get another one.

I am involved in experimental/jazz/landscapes, works well in this context. I have been playing for 35 years, and am mainly a keyboard player, but engineering is rapidly taking over, and its good to know that I can always rely on the LXP1 for good quality cost effective reverb. If it were stolen I would buy another immediately, its just cool, no competition really. I find it very inspiring to work with, because it is so easy to get a great sound it lets you get on with the music instead of spending ages struggling with it. I would like to take this opportunity to say something about the current state of the equipment industry. People always want the cheapest deal, most bang for the buck, and manufacturers try give as much as possible for the cheapest price, but what is happening is that to do this they have to cut corners, so you end up with products that to be frank, are just not worth having, OK they are cheap, but you get what you pay for in this world. In the late 1980s when the LXP1 was released it was nearly #500 here in the UK, a lot of money, but to get the same quality from anew unit today, you are looking at spending over a #1,000, So #100-150 for an LXP1 is an attractive proposition rather that spending you money on one of todays cheap Lexicon reverbs, I have tried them, and believe me, they do not hold a candle to the LXP1, I think lexicon have lost their way in trying to keep up with the budget effects market, they are rapidly losing their reputation here in the UK as a no compromise manufacturer of high end products, even the PCM80 does not sound as good as the older PCM70! secondhand PCM 70s sell for more than secondhand PCM80s. One request to Lexicon, please dont "improve" things anymore, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

This unit is not any challenge to communicate with, its simple design makes no demand i think.

..of course the midi communication looks not that straight foreward according to the manual, havent tried that yet. Some of the this unit parameters can only be reached by midi, but havent really urged for it yet. we must also think about the age of the design.

Ok sirs, I have used this box in my rack for some years, in my duo for small gigs, its main task has been to do vocal reverb, and some guitar reverb. It has been my main reverb unit and used with my Mackie 1202VLZ mixer.

And now to the point, the quality of sound must be the ear that hears i think, it sound soft, varm, sweet, but maybe not that sophisticated. Keep in mind this is an old design when I say its a little noisy, have not been any problem at stage but never used it for studio purposes.


I feel a need to use this unit more for instruments and replace it as a vocal reverb, mainly because its bandwith (up tp 13/14 Khz) is sounding dark in my ears. I usually struggle with it to sound bright enough, but it has also have that personality og warm sweet sound that creates a nice atmosphere in the public (thats my believe :).

No problems here

This unit went out of production few years ago, if it suits your needs it may be the best choice for you. I believe this unit was priced relative high compared to reverb machines today, (i bought it new).

LXP-1 justifies the Lexicon quality. The unit is very easy to use if you need only two parameters per effect (from the front panel). All of the 16 preset effects can be used immediately (finally an effects processor that has a great sound even without preprogramming... I also own Zoom 1201 and Yamaha EMP-100). But if you want to go deep into it, there's a bunch of parameters to tweak with sysex. With a sysex editor everything is smooth. The manual is very good and detailed, every parameter is clearly defined.

I use this unit as my main (aux) reverb on my Mackie CR-1604 for synths and drum machines. Noise levels are very very very low. The effects sound just great, can't say no more. If you need great reverb and also chorus and delay, this is the machine for you. Reverbs are full and clear, rich and deep. You get what you pay. And lots of newer multieffects processors with 44.1kHz sampling rate and I don't know what more fancy stuff can only hide in 32kHz LXP-1's shadow. I love it.

It's very robust and tough looking half rack box. Mine is bought second hand and almost mint. Lexicon owners have a tendency to really look after their boxes...

Beats me.

I know I could get this box cheaper, but the sound quality is so good that I simply forgot those 600 DEM. It was one of my greatest buys. Look around and you'll find some cheaper. But in my country prices for the LXP-1 are around that mark. I'd get one more if I'd seen it.