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The PCM 80 is an effects landscape. Making your own presets with this unit is extremely rewarding.

Famous Lexicon sound plus crazy pitch/filtering effects!!! Love it!

I have had my Lexicon 300 for about 6 years now and love it. IS it as good as the big brother models? I am not sure as I have not had the pleasure of using them, but for me this thing is on every mix, could not live without it. Smooth tails, pretty quiet in operation and apart from one small repair, it has been very reliable too. If you have the coin buy it.

It is a soft and musical machine. the internal programs are not necessarily prodigious, but as soon as you know the machine, you get fabulous results. always easy to put in a mix. The Hi cut filter is also one of the softest that can be. The Bricasti M7 is rougher, more like a 224. The 480L’s UAD plug is very close, almost equivalent to my hardware machine. just a little more harmonic distortion in the treble of the real 480L.

Probably like a lot of 480L owners now, I had to wait until one came up at a sensible price but make no mistake about it, it was well worth the wait! while you’re probably thinking, why bother, as plugins are getting so good at emulating the originals at a fraction of the price? I personally believe there is something missing by not having the original hardware in front of you and I’m sure as time goes on, these units will be snatched up by enthusiasts and studios.

The 480 is a legend! I wanted one for years and have no regrets in buying a really nicely presented example. It’s a flip of a coin as to which is better suited from the 480, a 224 or an RMX but I’m certainly am glad I have two of those 3 giants in the Reverb world. The quality of the actual algorithms is breath taking ! I have recently sent separate emails to two Studios that have the 480 and the RMX and asked them to compare both to their Bricasti M7’s… Their response was quite surprising with both the older Reverbs being preferred by clients and engineers.

The U/I on the 480 via the LARC, is very easy to use and the Machine itself is not just a reverb, but a box full of multiple effects that can be split into two separate effect machines and thus having the left input split with the right and effectively having two 480’s on each input, with separate stereo outputs. Having never compared the Classic Cart on the 480 with a 224, I’m not going to say it’s the same, but I’ve heard it’s pretty close and has most of the 224’s presets. I have the 480 plugin and it’s a good reverb, but the 480 just sounds more organic and rich to me. One thing that users will find a little nuisance it’s the noise of the cooling fan, but it’s a small price to pay for such a unique piece of equipment.

The Lexicon 480 is a long lasting old love and will never break. Still in todays time there is no other effect like the 480L. It is smooth and gentle and better than any other reverb ever made. Sure it will be replaced more and more from modern Reverbs in Plug In quality, but all of them have the goal to reach the sound of the original one, the Lexicon 480L.

It was extraordinary when it was released, and still today it provides incredible reverb for my mixes some 28 years later. Can plugins sound as good? Not as far as I am concerned, I will keep the 480L until it dies.

Using it primarily for Tiled Room, which sounds really lively and spacey on drums, separate percussion or to get some instrument, mostly guitars, move a little bit to the back of the mix, but retaining it’s urgency. It does not sound like a 224 or 224X as you read sometimes, but it sure has a classy sound. The delay sound quality is great also, really biting through the mix, and the flange and chorus FX are up with the better of them. Admitting that i actually use it not that often maybe comes from the fact that i sure have some big workhorses in the control room that often get used because they are default connected to the sends and returns of the console, like 2 224’s, 2 300’s, an AMS RMX16 and a SST282 by Ursa. But the PCM70 sure deserves to be used big time!

It’s my main reverb for a start point on vocals. Most of times it’ handles the vocals to glue perfect in the mix, that’s why this is the most used machine in studios around the world. Soft, no harsh tales as the software reverbs. For a pro level studio this is a most to have!

This was my first Lexicon, back around 1990. I absolutely loved it and the presets, but is was so noisy it had to go. While all outboard gear from this era suffer with a bit of noise, this unit is notorious from suffering with this annoying trait. Sadly, it had to go for the PCM 90, which I love.

This is still a reverb you will find in many studios, but it is not because it is so pristine and great, but because it sits in mixes well and has some mojo compared to many others from the period. I would not make it my only reverb, but would have one for that something different.