Rackmount Gear Thread

[Gone Fission]

So want the Plasma Rack. Sounds amazeballs. More than I’ve spent on either the Eclipse I had or the DSP-7000 I still have, though.

[crochambeau]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA_Ml0oqgY[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQA_Ml0oqgY

I will just leave this here. Love it.

That thing is awesome. The distortion section reminds me a lot of the sound butchery I get with a Ballantine 320 voltmeter, though at a *much* lower noise floor (I mean to say the old Ballantine is a noisy beast).

[MrNovember]

There's a Lexicon MPX-1 for sale locally for $300 CDN. I am pretty tempted, but I've been spending a lot on gear lately and have been trying to not buy anything until after ILFSS.

It's this one:
https://reverb.com/item/28888710-lexico ... ith-manual

Anyone with experience with it or know if this is a reasonable price?

[rfurtkamp]

If you want to pay $50+ for the 'manual', yes. Download a PDF and bag one of the buck fifty or less ones.

[rfurtkamp]

That said, they're acceptable for older units - they were good midrange things when they came out, but that's 20-some years ago. I'm sure there's some demos out there - I remember them and got to screw around a bit back then but wasn't willing to pull the trigger for what they cost.

[Gone Fission]

Don’t pay that much for an MPX-1 without OS 1.1 and a fresh battery unless it really is prohibitive to get one up to the great white north. It looks like good condition but my experience is $150 USD is pretty easy to pull off.

[MrNovember]

Awesome, thank you for tempering my gas! Really didn't want to spend that much on it, but also didn't want to miss out

[Gone Fission]

There seem to be, if not a fuckton, a lot of MPX-1s out there. They made them for years.

[whoismarykelly]

If you’re playing guitar the MPX G2 may be better suited.

[JonnyAngle]

Anyone DIY it themselves a home made rack case?

I’m looking at a 2 or 3u and don’t feel like ponying up a lotta coin for a reverb and extra bass amp i don’t use.

[Phosphene Audio]

I use my Eventide Eclipse all the time.

It's great for both subtle and over the top stuff, with as much or as little control over the particulars as you like. The presets all have 4-8 hot key parameters or one can access every single parameter of a preset via a different button.

I even like the distortion stuff in it, though most hate it. The stock presets for that sort of thing are not quite right, but can be tweaked into doing neat stuff. There are distortion algorithms that apply the dirt independently to assorted frequency bands a la the Paia Quadrafuzz. No one will mistake them for amp/cab sims, but I find they have their place.

The ring modded delays are awesome as well.

the algorithms:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/com.eventide.d ... grithm.pdf



I used to have a 3000 and kind of wish I had that or one of their other 2 space units, but I'd be leery of the old ones (for repair issues) and the newer ones are still way expensive.

[MrNovember]

Anyone DIY it themselves a home made rack case?

I’m looking at a 2 or 3u and don’t feel like ponying up a lotta coin for a reverb and extra bass amp i don’t use.

The Ikea Rast end table makes a great DIY rack if you can find one somewhere. Unfortunately they were discontinued by Ikea

[digi2t]

Way back when, I started with the bog standard Boss pedals, until the day I picked up and Ibanez HD1000, which I would just sit on top of my amp. It was my gateway drug to rack gear.

Over the years, I still used pedals, but slowly started to mix in various pieces of rack gear, only because there would be a particular piece that could do stuff that a pedal couldn't (or vise versa). In reality, they're all sonic canvas tools.

What's been in my rack forever has been;
- BBE 422
- SGX 2000
- Roland GR 50
- Two 360 Systems AM16's (16x16 audio matix - for mixing in pedals)

In recent years, I've also added;
- Boss GT-Pro
- Kurzweil Mangler
- Line 6 Filter Pro

I'm not going to go into all the other gear that's been in and out of there, but I will lament the fact that I sold my SDD 3300 way back when. The half second audio drop out when patch changing was really annoying, but nothing could cop the the chorus one could get by running the three delays in series, and setting each delay 90 degrees out of phase to the next. Absolute gooey goodness. I'm using an Ola now, and while it good, it's no 3300. I had that beast running most the time. Should have kept it.

[$harkToootth]

A hidden gem perhaps? A Korg DV-1000 is selling on the South Jersey Craigslist (to far 4 m3) for $50. One of Reverb is $75 so it's in the right range (but with $25 shipping, doubles the price).
If I was starting my set up from scratch, I'd take the drive and get this.


These are in my county... I'm considering it for the LOLS. $200 for the pair (Linking if anyone is in Philly / South NJ and interested)[/link]
ELECTRIX WARP FACTORY

ELECTRIX FILTER FACTORY


ANNNDDDDD as I was posting this... my memory kicked into overdrive and I remembered the WARP FACTORY is the Vocoder TOBACCO used to use... so I'm 1000% going to be picking up both at some point this week if they don't sell.
PROOF (look behind the MOOG MF-104Z)

MOAR PROOF (Image is large so NSFW): Tfw no qt 3.14 gf to wear masks with and make music with

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[MrNovember]

Ooh, I am a huge Tobacco fan! I hope you get that vocoder

There's been a bunch of interesting rack gear popping up around me lately, but it's all a little too expensive for my current budget since I am saving for a new guitar