I'm still floored by the sounds in that box. If you plan on doing any more bargain vintage rack gear vids look for a Lexicon MPX-1. I love my Rocktron Plexi through it as well. The Rockmaster's clean channel into the 2120's octal chorus with delay is that old LA sound we all love and the Ultra channel with long delay and reverb is so good it's hard to put your guitar down. It's still a very usable unit for effects alone when you run other preamps into it. The delays, reverbs & chorus efx in particular are very good. The tube drive tones are very usable if you spend some time dialing them in and use one of the EQ's along with the global tone controls. Great job on that brother! You're right about the best part of the 2120 being it's effects. I saw your YT clip about 90 minutes ago and really enjoyed it. I have a 2112, 2120, and three 2101s - two of which are NOS (including an Artist Pro) and I'll never part with them! DigiTech's golden era of rack effects was a good time. The speaker emulation in the 2101 is very impressive, even today, and it only functional when using the XLR outputs. My two biggest complaints about the 2112/2120 are the removal of the hardware speaker emulated outputs, (which was substituted by software speaker emulation which was terrible in comparison), and the removal of the XLR balanced outputs. I personally think the preamp section is better sounding on the 2101 versus the 2112/2120, though all are awesome if programmed well. It's really impressive to think that back in 1994 DigiTech created a preamp/processor that allowed the user to arrange the effects chain in any order, only really limited to available DSP. The 2112/2120 has that real cool ability to run two parallel preamps, which is a huge feature, however the 2101 is otherwise a more flexible unit overall. I think one of the primary goals of the 2112/2120 line was to make them easier to program than the 2101. I've put a lot of time with my PCMs these past few days and the GSP2101 isn't doing much in my signal chains.just controlling midi PC and CC with some front of pre fx. I have an ipad remote work in progress capable of such resolution.but not yet do I have an expression pedal capable of such a thing. I hope to find a way to feed SysEx resolution expression control through the PCMs. Nor do the Pitch FX compare the tracking on the PCM81 (or likely a PCM80 with a Pitch FX card (I have an 81 and an 80 but not PitchFX card)) just blows the 2101 away. Again, the end resulting sound really does not compare. I suppose that is how the reverb in the 2101 is "limited". Chamber? Hall? Plate? Concert Hall? These are beyond the "shape" parameter. Further, you are "stuck" with whichever Lexicon algo Harmon allowed to go in the 2101. The parameter resolution on the PCMs is incredibly high, whereas the GSP2101 parameter resolutions are "specifically designed for guitar" with huge jumps in unit values. The reason I ask is because the algo routing and programming of a Digitech 2101 GigaVerb does not at all resemble a Lexicon PCM8x shell and core. This would include the wrap around sub menu digitech used. The depth of the menu systems on the GPS units. We never could have programmed the lush sounds with out S-disk cpu's had the very first wrap around menu.Īnd the depth of the menus had been golden back then. The S-Disk CPUs had been released to the public Made the units more complex do to the Audio CPU's.ĭNA cpus I think they are called? Willing to guess The RP units mostly are trimmed back 2101 / 2120 unitsĪnd as things got near the last run of production they I am guessing that Digitech / Lexicon had been doing some If you look on the RP and or the GNX units says they use Lexicon algorithms. Not Full scale Lexicon good?īut pretty darn good for a $750 two rack space guitar preamp. Samsung owns both Lexicon andĭigitech now, so this made me think it all out before hand how the algorithms The Digitech units used the Lexicon reverbĪlgorithm across the board I am pretty sure. I had to use two Uptown technologies Flash units Then added two Studio Quads for more effects. I used the 2101 all maxed out with one algorithm for reverb and mixing mostly. Visit our software page if you don't have the sound librarian installed yet.The S-Disk units and the S-disk II units have a limited Lexicon reverb algorithm. Get started with these famous tones by connecting your GSP or RP unit to your Mac or PC.
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