Lexicon 284 - Manual (Page 20)

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Applications
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.
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.
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 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.
Re-Amping
Vocals
Acoustic Guitar
Digital Effects