G-Force

[Anonymous]

Geez... Is the chorus unusable on this thing? Why do you need a different chorus? Everybody here baggin' on a Lexicon chorus really scares me now. I just need a taste of chorus with 250ms (l) and 500 ms (r) delays for wet/dry/wet. I'll mostly be using the dry sound. Surely, I can make this work well enough for jamming live...

Steve

Don't listen to the naysayers. The trick is to use some light stereo detune as chorus like Landau does. You can also add some chorus on top of that. Also use the echo algo for delay. Awesome tone, trust me !!

The naysayers are only saying that because they did not think about or know about the detune trick. The stock chorus patches in the MPX-1 absolutely suck ass IMHO and Ive heard an old intellifex side by side with the MPX-1 and it smoked it. With that said, you should get the medal of honor for recommending the detune trick with the chorus on top because that it the bizzzomb

As far as reverbs are concerned the lexicons just kill. I think the lexi boxes are the best for reverbs but the lag time between patches always makes me leary about using them live unless you just use it for a patch or 2.
Most of the guys I know who use the lexicon boxes are using multiple units so that they don't have to deal with the patch switch lag time.

~R~

Thanks man! I will use detune/chorus/echo - I'm not going to be switching patches, I have something specific I want to dial in. I might use another effect here and there, but not within a "song/jam"...

Steve

 

[Gainfreak]

Thanks man! I will use detune/chorus/echo - I'm not going to be switching patches, I have something specific I want to dial in. I might use another effect here and there, but not within a "song/jam"...

Steve

 

[Jack Luminous]

With that said, you should get the medal of honor for recommending the detune trick with the chorus on top because that it the bizzzomb

Thanks !!

 

[mentoneman]

For those who feel the GForce sounds sterile. Here's how to solve that:

run all your fx, whether they are in parallel or series into a filter as a final fx block. Then work with the filter adding/removing low or highs to taste. This will definitely warm up the sound!

The G-Force doesn't sound sterile per se IMHO but its reverb algo is horrible for guitar use, again IMHO. Sounds indeed sterile and clangy, metallic and also doesn't blend at all in the guitar like a Lexicon. No amount of filtering can solve that (I tried). I really like a touch of delay/verb on my high-gain solo tone and Lexicon delivers the good for sure.

yo J-

although i tend to agree in part, i wouldn't say the gforce verb is useless...it's just way more transparent by nature, so you have to jump through hoops to color it up and mix it into the equation without those nasty artifacts you describe...but i hear you...with the lexi you just pull up a reverb and it's there.

and conversely, for live use, the tc is much better at being subtle, when you want to hide effects from being too obvious.

 

[Anonymous]

and conversely, for live use, the tc is much better at being subtle, when you want to hide effects from being too obvious.

Of course in a wet/dry/wet rig w/power amp, it is easy to dial the wet cabs to be subtle from a volume perspective...

Steve