Is the CXM 1978 Reverb Worth It? // A Lexicon 224 on Steroids

[@ADHM808]

The joy you experience from making music is so inspiring.

[@Noidses]

Boii i felt that drop when everything went dry after that high pass

[@blakesatyr4027]

Dude, the quality of your videos is superb. From the video quality, to your oozing intelligence, your undeniable experience and wisdom, and just the kick back with your homie and make some music sort of vibes, you just effortlessly create content that is absolutely wonderful. I don't give my time to much these days simply because I don't have any to spare... But for the masterpiece thst is your channel, I have all damn day. Keep it up. Love your work. Wish I could work with you.

[@RomyAncona]

DAWG, the freaking vibe you created when you started messing with that crossfader during the techno jam... My hands went straight up, my eyebrows went straight to concerned mode and I said "ooooooooohhh!"

[@alecman95]

I love how your mind drifted away from reviewing and you ended up just getting lost in the track, I felt that. 😍

[@pupation]

I just got a CXM 1978, and it sounds beautiful. One thing that really irritated me, though - it’s a $900 pedal, and they didn’t bother to include a power supply! This video is great, I love the way you cover all the aspects of the unit, the whole time making music. Your passion for music really comes through, and it makes your videos quite enjoyable.

[@Dolle_Man]

no power supply?! thats almost a middle finger right?

[@photosynthesis69]

Lol yoooo some of these pedal makers must be stopped. $900 with no power supply is wild.

[@DriftMusiK]

I love that complete zen "in the zone" vibe you were stuck in. been there. warms the cockles. I hope to hear more of this in 2021. Happy new year and peace!

[@silent-science]

thought i was going crazy with that tiny mpc - makes for a great set!

[@zeitgeist909]

What you need is one of those 'On Air' red lights on the outside of your house.

[@RickyTinez]

i wish!

[@nkozi]

*laughs in Valhalla VintageVerb* Real talk tho this sounds amazing! Loving the color grading on these recent vids as well.

[@crifox16]

man the valhalla stuff is impossibly good. i was looking into getting an hardware unit then i stumbled upon the vintageverb and their delay. chances are i'm staying in the box indefinitely

[@mvsr990]

If I had everything setup to run into my iMac, I'd probably just keep one trashy lo-fi reverb for guitar. VintageVerb, UAD's 224 and 480 emulations, Relab's 480 - I haven't heard a pedal beat any of them yet. (and I have a Space and a CXM 1978 and used to have a Bam.)

[@bobyatron7525]

Yeah This thing sounds great, but I don’t see how you compete with software these days when asking $800 for a dsp reverb. Even the most expensive stuff like UAD... goes for half off several times a year, and you could buy more of their reverbs plus the Valhalla stuff for that price.

[@Reyescult]

20 years after your software reverb throws in the towel this thing will still be doing work. Well, maybe not the motors on the faders! That said, $800-900 is a bit much for a reverb pedal.

[@TheFlippertube]

Watching all these vids on lockdown, when I want ears I can trust it's you and Stimming every time. Thanks, bro.

[@JulianFrank]

This jam is such a vibe!! I love watching you get lost in the music, it's so inspiring. More jams please!!

[@roccoharris]

"cook out!!" I grew up in virginia & moved out to LA in '98. I was told back then that no one out here says "cook out." (that's how it's said back east.) you, enrique, are truly a universal soldier. lovely reverb by the way. I was born in 1978. really makes me wish I could swing this thing, but... no.

[@Megallicafan18]

had so much fun watching this, one of the most entertaining videos in a while, I love it when You're vibing so hard You're lost for words

[@mju135]

this should be rated R

[@juliusebola9389]

I love production videos that end with head bobbing. It's awesome watching somebody else slip into the zone like that. Totally inspired to go record now.

[@LeonoraTindall]

Love the intro - typical LA morning!

[@smacksalad]

I slightly expected a gunshot sound :)

[@tonipepperoni3424]

@@smacksalad lol it's not Chicago tho

[@SHINdanny]

no barking from the dog :(

[@gm-pr8mp]

love how unconcerned you are with your neighbors arguing. even when the glass bottles start shattering

[@NRG2]

The pre amp with the reverb would just be unstoppable!! You could sculpt almost any source to fit in any given project!

[@NRG2]

Yo Ricky I’ve got so much gratitude for you sharing your knowledge with us. When I’m not inspired to make music I can hop on here and continue to learn and progress. I got my first hardware synth (been using software) for Christmas and when I finally release some music, I have to say it wouldn’t be the same without your channel!! You the man! 🙏❤️

[@DannyTaurus]

Dude, the vibe on the second half - dayum! 🔥

[@browe]

Finally picked this up--from my local Minneapolis shop, and a local area company (Chase Bliss.) Love supporting the community, and love this reverb! Thanks for keeping it on my shortlist during COVID times.

[@TonyAndersonMusic]

It stresses me out that when the faders are right next to each other they’re crooked. Looks like a manufacturing defect… Wish they had put some more thought into tightening those faders up

[@carlosvargas894]

Bro! You was killing it with that beat! Awesome review!

[@swisserty]

for sure for sure.... yet he streaight up using HOSA brand patch cables into this deelicious 900 ducket verb? a bit disrespectful to my team over at CHASE BLISS.. we might repo it honestly. It deserves GOLD PLATED Mogami. nothing less. #mogamiswag

[@spartan8390]

Not sure how I got here, but this is a SUPER CHILL channel. Watched the review for something I don't need solely because this was relaxing.

[@RickyTinez]

Spartan! Thanks for coming by, i really appreciate you hanging out and i hope to see you again soon, much love.

[@ezymarquez5521]

What an absolute vibe. Expected a guitar video but got mad vibes instead! Love your stuff man

[@Bladi4n]

That reverb sounds sick and your enthusiasm sells it well.

[@A.V.O.O.V.A.]

Man it's always a pleasure seeing you making music !

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

Dude, awesome video! I love your unfiltered joy and heartfelt reaction to the happy sonic accidents you find while you explore those amazing machines. I feel the same way when I play around with my gear, and honestly, what’s the point if you don’t get chicken skin and stank face from the music?😅 Loads of love and much success next year brother! You are a force of nature🤟🏻

[@Bolle128]

good lord, that whole 17:00 and onward jam is just soooo good - big love Mr Tinez

[@LOScreates]

This jam had me bumping! Great stuff

[@csgband]

I just got one, it really is so inspiring. I dig your vibe on this.

[@benm3004]

oh my god that jam was amazing

[@robertgray4904]

It's cool to see how happy and excited you get when discovering something, wish I had more of those moments! :)

[@johnshideler5244]

I didn’t really want a CXM 1978 until I watched this. Given the price tag. I’m not sure if I should thank you or scorn you… Great video, as always. I feel your noise pain. We have four sets of train tracks about 50 meters behind our house.

[@jeroenfigee]

5:00 --> Never thought a hihat could be a soundeffect ?!! That sounds cooool ! Almost like a sampler. . Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it. . Thumbs up.

[@Fjordjumper]

This review right here defines your brilliance, Ricky. You are the MKDHB of audio gear

[@bassaniobee]

I don't know if it's the whiskey that I am having but man, I am vibing with you. when you found your goosebumps I also found mine.

[@charlesfichter68]

18:20 our Ricky is just vibinnnnn

[@lopp3]

Seeing Ricky get goosebumps gave me goosebumps

[@everybodyhasoul5438]

Sounds really great. The response is giving me a mix of UAD Capital Chambers mixed with Valhalla.

[@superdudecarter]

OMG! I was getting totally lost in that groove, could have listened to that for hours. You need to release that as a track

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

Gave me goose bumps when u started with the 4/4 kick chug. My fav sound. Looks like I need the octatrack and the CXM reverb. Sooooo worth it

[@masedrums]

I wasn't sold on it until the last jam. Nice.

[@justinjones2595]

Inspired me to spend some time with my UAD Lexicon 224 plug in today! Using the Push 2 to control it.

[@MichaelSmith-bb6kg]

that second pattern you made blew my mind kid! that reverb really gave it ambiance. If i had money id definitely buy the Octatrack MK2

[@1db1db1db]

for the love of god please release that jam

[@COSMOPOLITA1966]

allways enjoy watching your videos,for those how love music. allways a new experience..

[@chrisricetopher21]

Bruh… I LOVE the vibes of your videos lately man. Big time subbing!!! I am getting back into Ableton with the push 2 after like 8 plateau’d years in logic. You make it seem like music is fulfilling for you, so maybe it can be for me, too. Honestly, my favorite things are that you NEVER seem to take anything too seriously, the color grade, and conversation is just really chill. Much like I’m kicking it with another musical homie. Keep up the good work bro!

[@ClearMountainProvisions]

I've been waiting this review. Much appreciated 🙏

[@Aphercotropes]

I love your reviews. And I think I'm falling in love with this device.

[@VincentsVideoVisions]

Need to feed the zen delay into this

[@nicolascarta2626]

Greeeeaaaat one ! I don't know about the pedal moneywise.. but damn that jam !! Uuuhh ❤🔊

[@funkle271]

GREAT demo! I've mostly used mine on live instruments coming out of the DAW and it was tough to hear the intricacies of the Lo-fi mode -- your video really clarifies. Thanks man!

[@kevinking8847]

This video made me smile so big. I know that feeling🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍

[@theway3058]

I can say from experience I’ve owned 2 or 3 lex 960 with lark. They were in each control room and the top of the lime tc electronics. With their lark controller thing. Expensive stuff. All records for live Inst we used the lex 960. They where next level for sure. And I had all the cards in them. Even people who don’t know verbs well could tell that there algorithms on the 960 where just more real. We also in the mix room would use those line six rack mount ones and mixers loved those for sure. The other secret sauce was the electrix units that DJ’s used to use. Those were super dope and different.

[@Kamasutralovers]

Brilliant vid! Love your enthusiasm/presenting style

[@VincentsVideoVisions]

Its dope but price wise this is out of the range for bedroom producers like me.

[@tonipepperoni3424]

So far I've stuck with things like arturia and volcas because they're great and usually affordable as well as I'm remembering that used stuff can also help u not break the bank too much but I haven't gotten used synths/hardware yet

[@modaroho]

This is how you get out of the bedroom by buying shit like that . Let that sink in ... this is the way

[@TWENTYELBRIDGE]

@@modaroho absolute fucking facts my guy !!! 🙌🙌

[@bitspacemusic]

For the price of an Oto Bam *and* Eventide Space, I'm whelmed.

[@LucIndustries]

That made me laugh for some reason.

[@ljs8888]

Yah, oto bam sounds significantly nicer to my ears

[@stevelate9400]

I love my oto bam. Seems more usable to me too... But of course that is after 4 years of use... 🤔

[@saltygentlemen]

Listen, if you just wanted to make a hour long video of you deep in that flow, I'm here for it. That last bit of the video was some third eye opening mystical shit.

[@SimonHosford]

Really really great exploration and explanation of what this unit can do Ricky! Thank you ever so much! 🤟🙏

[@channelz567]

Just picked up a CXM 1978! I think it will pair nicely with my Digitakt and Moog Matriarch... Happy New Year!

[@MusicFed]

My lexicon pcm81 still holds its own after all these years... but yeah... looking at moving faders is cool ha

[@RickyTinez]

😂 envy from both ends

[@iowa2540]

God, the sound of this thing brings me to tears.

[@techtalkmike4968]

Was watching and listening on external speakers ... couldn't hear what Ricky was on about, busted out my Sennheisers, damn ... ok, gotcha! Super vibe and a helluva reverb.

[@joelgonsalves4943]

that jam was tuu KOLD.

[@sammys_shop]

Really love your vids Ricky - fun and inspiring! Killer jam you had going there. Thanks

[@nicolausala]

ahaha the end was so cool love it how you jammed! wow i want a reverb now for my octa :)

[@lancecampbell1677]

Yes! Of course it is!

[@playgroundofsound7683]

I think this was a nice demonstration of how u get can get more milage out less creative material (as messy desk would say) using fx pedals. 🙏

[@j.r.g3548]

Love the black octatrack! That reverb sounds amazing.

[@Banquet...]

I love Chase Bliss and Meris (have the Mood and Mercury 7) but this just seems too big and too expensive to me and I was a definite pass until your jam at the end, which is so damn good!

[@illustriouschin]

Ultra-premium unit. The reverb sounds alright I guess....

[@WillemZenhorst]

I can think of 3 or 4 better (or at least more unique) sounding reverb pedals, and can probably buy 2 or 3 of them for the same price.

[@krxwnvxk3432]

@@WillemZenhorst care to name a few?

[@WillemZenhorst]

@@krxwnvxk3432 So, Empress Reverb (arguably best sounding verb pedal out there still) costs half of this, so does the SA Ventris (or Supercollider if you want Delay instead of dual-verb), both VERY good sounding and more versatile verbs, so that's two of the best for the same price of this one. Let's see, for a unique one we could get a Meris Mercury7 (quite adventurous, lots of cool features, though a bit focused on "going big"), and a Red Panda Context v2, and that still leaves enough money for a Boss RV500 (for versatility) or a Strymon (for less but better sounds), all for roughly the same price as a single CXM. Better yet: get a ZOIA, there's a few really good CXM-style patches already, AND you get tonnes of other verbs and effects.

[@MajorOSC]

That high hat almost started to sound like lightning that was really neat

[@6or7breadsticks]

That nano MPK is driving me crazy, like that new thing is GIGANTIC

[@caesarsheadache]

Great and inspired demo and jam 👏🔥 Happy New Year🤘

[@henrilpro7667]

😂😂😂 Love the end so much! Amazing reverb ! Need one so bad.. Thanks for your video.

[@t7H2si0vß2]

18:35 Ricky brings up the idea of having presets (more or less) and its technically possible. Motorized faders are actually pretty common in consoles, it wouldn't be unrealistic to think that you could install motorized faders and use a small chip (like some cheap atmega chip or something) to save and recall presets. It'd be a cool addition if they ever decided to make a sequel module.

[@zeusdeux]

Why not just save the current state as a preset, do changes and go back to saved preset?

[@t7H2si0vß2]

@@zeusdeux Thats exactly what I'm saying. The problem is, there is no way to "save the current state" because the faders arent moterized, therefore theres no way to recall a saved preset. How would you "go back to the saved preset" as you said, if all the faders are in different positions than when you saved the preset? Motorized faders could let you save the position of all the faders, and then recall those positions at a later point. if you dont know what motorized faders are, go watch some videos about motorized faders, but your comment basically described exactly the problem I was talking about in my first comment

[@zeusdeux]

@@t7H2si0vß2 are we still talking about the cxm 1978 in the video? That has motorized faders.

[@shitmandood]

It's the motorized components that have really jacked up the price. I think you can get a full suite of Lexicon reverb in the Digitech Reverb pedal for $99. You'll have to pull out a pen and paper to record the knobs for your presets...here in the ghetto.

[@Joldrath]

Yes this is a reverb. I might be wrong on this, but to me, this seems more like an item to better your end mix, or even master. Very interesting indeed, because if I am right, then this device opens up a whole new market, all by itself.

[@BaileyHeredge]

that pre delay's mad you can play it like an instrument almost nice

[@badoedipus2551]

Oh man.. I SOOO do not want to want another signal processing box... but it sounds soooooooo good.

[@GlitchComputer]

This is iconic honestly. I'm sold!!!

[@adde65]

Great review. It's too pricey and big for my use. For those of you who couldn't face the $$$ of this, check out Vongon Ultrasheer - a beautifully made 224 style verb with an amazing vibrato section too.

[@chatolars]

That is an instrument in itself

[@verstaerker]

Maaan you're feeling it! 😍

[@NunyaB1s]

Well, I have another reverb to kick around. :-) This was soooooo fun to watch.

[@gesslr]

The joy is infectious. :)

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

That last few minutes was so dope!

[@surganov]

"Skip 2" pattern could actually be represented as E(7,16) using the Euclidean Algorithm. Paper "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms" describes this pattern as "the Bossa-Nova rhythm necklace of Brazil".

[@Fluidstructure]

Riding the sliders & fader looks like a no brainer, for performing at the least... def considering , good non-guitar demo, thanks

[@jesusruizalayon680]

That was so dope!! Nice vid bro

[@YakovPetrovich]

the look on your face when you say "it just gets... disgusting" is like, yeah, i need this pedal now

[@spookypen]

Pricey but to be expected, looks and sounds top quality.

[@ringandtones]

I was watching this when the video had 800 views, 100 thumbs up, 0 thumbs down and you had 99.000 subscribers 👌

[@olc-glas9408]

Ricky, you're starting to remind me of Marc Maron 🖤🖤🖤

[@MasterStatusUK]

nearly at 100k Enrique! merry christmas dude

[@Raumweiter]

subscribers or gear? ^^

[@RickyTinez]

Hahaha 😂

[@RickyTinez]

Thanks masterStatus! I appreciate you sticking around :)

[@swisserty]

for sure for sure.... yet he streaight up using HOSA brand patch cables into this deelicious 900 ducket verb? a bit disrespectful to my team over at CHASE BLISS.. we might repo it honestly. It deserves GOLD PLATED Mogami. nothing less. #mogamiswag

[@RickyTinez]

@@swisserty Gold Plated Monster cables are all i fly.. haha kidding. Same was said when i sampled my Xpander into my Pocket Operator haha

[@onkelberra3166]

Glad seeing you using the anniversary elektron! Btw, you almost made me buy that reverb. Hope they release one w/o those expensive faders. My threshold is around 400 bucks for effects

[@strangestrains.]

This is soo dope

[@iowa2540]

This thing sound absolutely incredible and looks so pretty to match.

[@allmetaliswelcome]

Compared to the price of a "real" reverb unit $899 is nothing though. Are the low/mid/high faders different decay times for the different frequency ranges?