Lexicon musical instrument owner manual Description of Parameters, Reverb Type

DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS PANTHEON™

DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS

REVERB TYPE

The type parameter gives six selections of reverb types including:

Hall, Chamber, Room, Plate, Ambience, and Custom.

Hall is a hall effect with gradual build-up, well suited to complex sounds like orchestral music. Its reverberators avoid the buildup of tinny, grainy, metallic colorations.

Chamber is a complex miniature-space effect resembling an echo chamber at its smaller settings and, at its larger ones, a small performance space with a more rapid build-up of reflection density than Hall.

Room is a very useful tool for adding a room sound to recorded music or speech, making it easy to match a studio recording of dialog to a typical room environment. It can be used to simulate the ambience of very small rooms without the colorations often found in actual spaces of that size.

Plate mimics the sound of classic, metal, reverb plates with high initial diffusion and a relatively bright, colored sound. For this reason, they are designed to be heard as part of the music, mellowing and thickening the initial sound itself. The Plate sound is what most people associate with the classic PCM60 reverb. It is especially useful for vocals in all types of popular music.

Ambience generates the strong reflections that appear in the first few hundred milliseconds of the reverberation process. These early reflections become part of the direct sound without coloring it, giving it better blend and a definite position in space and conveying the impression of a hall surrounding you while the music is playing. It lends warmth, spaciousness and depth to a performance.

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