Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • The Lexicon PCM70 was released in 1985. The same year as the more expensive 224X. The PCM70 was a budget alternative for expensive sounding lush reverbs and effects, even if it did cost over $2000 in the 80s. It also had MIDI and they made it respond to CC messages so you could control it in real time. This was very impressive.
What set a good expensive reverb apart from more cheap ones was how the expensive reverbs effortlessly wrapped around the sound source in a majestic and expansive way, where the cheap ones wrapped itself around the source as wet snow or stink on stink.
Today, there are plugins that will destroy the PCM70 in many ways, but sometimes the oldies are goldies for a reason.
A big thanks to Anders Jensen for letting me have one of his PCM70s for this video. I've sold all my Lexicons now as I use Valhalla VintageVerb for easier and faster access to the Lexicon reverb sound in the DAW.
Find my music here:
Bandcamp: espenkraft.bandcamp.com
00:00 LONG HALL Reverb Program
00:44 Intro
01:48 DRUMS with reverb
04:18 Midi CC for remote control of parameters
08:41 Synth Brass with long modulated reverbs
11:13 Does it hold up today? Final thoughts
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • The Lexicon PCM70 was released in 1985. The same year as the more expensive 224X. The PCM70 was a budget alternative for expensive sounding lush reverbs and effects, even if it did cost over $2000 in the 80s. It also had MIDI and they made it respond to CC messages so you could control it in real time. This was very impressive.
What set a good expensive reverb apart from more cheap ones was how the expensive reverbs effortlessly wrapped around the sound source in a majestic and expansive way, where the cheap ones wrapped itself around the source as wet snow or stink on stink.
Today, there are plugins that will destroy the PCM70 in many ways, but sometimes the oldies are goldies for a reason.
A big thanks to Anders Jensen for letting me have one of his PCM70s for this video. I've sold all my Lexicons now as I use Valhalla VintageVerb for easier and faster access to the Lexicon reverb sound in the DAW.
Find my music here:
Bandcamp: espenkraft.bandcamp.com
00:00 LONG HALL Reverb Program
00:44 Intro
01:48 DRUMS with reverb
04:18 Midi CC for remote control of parameters
08:41 Synth Brass with long modulated reverbs
11:13 Does it hold up today? Final thoughts
