Lexicon 284 manual Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Digital Effects, Re-Amping

Applications	Lexicon
Vocals	Looking for a more radical effect than can be obtained with a tube mic preamp?
	Depending on how drastic you want to be, run the vocal through either the Guitar
	input (easy on the gain!) or the effects return.
Acoustic Guitar	Here again, the Signature 284 has something to offer as an alternative way to
	process a source. There are several approaches — all yield different, but
	musical, results. If the acoustic guitar is a mono source, be sure to experiment
	using the guitar input, gain and tone controls as well as bypassing the preamp
	altogether and running directly into the power amps via the effects returns. If the
	guitar is stereo, patch into the effects returns. In either case, be sure to compare
	different sounds obtainable from the Slave and Recording outputs.
Digital Effects	You can use the Signature 284 to “warm up” the characteristically cold sound of
	some digital effects processors. Connect the stereo outputs of the processor to
	the stereo effects returns of the Signature 284. Set the Volume controls to 5 or
	less. Different results will be obtained from the Slave and Recording outputs -
	be sure to compare.
Re-Amping	Re-amping a guitar track means to take a previously recorded guitar track and
	process it through a guitar amp. This is not often done, but sometimes it’s nice
	(or necessary) to go back and change the settings on the amp after the track has
	been laid down. The best way to do this is to record a separate track of direct
	(unamplified) guitar along with the amplified track. To do this, use a good quality,
	active direct box to split the guitar signal before it gets to the amp. (You must use
	an active direct box — as opposed to a passive Y-cord — so that the guitar amp
	input “sees” the correct impedance.) It’s your choice as to whether to connect
	the direct box before or after any stomp boxes that are used between the guitar
	and the amp input.
	Set the amp as you normally would, but when you hit RECORD, always record
	the direct guitar on a separate track. Once the track has been recorded, you have
	the option of replacing or augmenting the amplified track with additional versions
	of the original performance run through different amplifier settings and effects.

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