n, it’s also one of the oldest effects in rock and roll. But guitarists have made rotary speakers the source of some timeless and legendary sounds—Eric Clapton masterfully used a Leslie cabinet to record the ending to Cream’s “The Badge,” and Jimi Hendrix sprinkled the effect in “Little Wing.”Since the ’70s, players have more often opted for choruses, phasers, and digital modulation pedals to replicate of sound of the heavy, expensive, and hard-to-maintain rotary speakers. But even the best modulation pedals have a hard time replicating the unmistakable sound of a spinning speaker and well-placed microphones that are responsible for the best rotary sounds. Enter the Lex, a new rotary speaker simulator from the brain trust at Strymon Effects. The Lex nails a host of rotary speaker tone, but it also delivers a lot of the response and feel of playing one in impressive fashion.
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Like many of the pedals in the Strymon line, the Lex has a smorgasbord of features and frills that almost border on the obsessive. The aim was to emulate every aspect a rotary speaker cabinet, including all of the sonic nuances of different microphone configurations, and the number of sounds on tap is amazing, Strymon’s impressive 24-bit SHARC DSP system really flexes its muscles in this new example, modeling the mechanical aspects of rotary speaker function, and the sonic signatures of the amplifiers and speakers themselves. There are analog input and output circuits to help warm up the tone of the emulation further. And it can be used in either mono mode, or in a super-spacious stereo mode that can be bi-amped.
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