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CHAPTER 27
Lexicon 224
Classic Digital Reverb
From the moment it was unleashed on the audio industry in 1978, the original
Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb — with its tactile, slider-based controller and fa-
mously lush reverb tail — almost single-handedly defined the sound of an en-
tire era. It served as a major player in the sound of highly influential classics
such as Talking Heads' Remain In Light, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious
Five's The Message, Vangelis' incredible Blade Runner soundtrack, U2's Un-
forgettable Fire, and Peter Gabriel's So. With such a refined legacy, it's no
surprise that the Lexicon 224 remains one of the most popular digital reverb
units of all time.
The result of using the very same algorithms and control processor code from
the original hardware, the UAD-2 Lexicon 224 precisely captures all eight re-
verb programs and the chorus program — based on the Lexicon 224's final
and hard-to-find firmware version 4.4. In UA's exhaustive modeling tradition,
the Lexicon 224 plug-in also incorporates the original unit's input transformers
and early AD/DA 12-bit gain stepping converters — nailing the entire analog
and digital circuit paths right down to the last detail.
Additionally, the Lexicon 224 emulation for UAD-2 features direct input and
presets from famous Lexicon 224 users, including Chuck Zwicky (Prince, Jeff
Beck), Eli Janney (Jet, Ryan Adams), David Isaac (Eric Clapton, Luther Van-
dross), E.T. Thorngren (Talking Heads, Bob Marley), and Kevin Killen (U2, Pe-
ter Gabriel).
History Developed by renowned physicist/engineer Dr. David Griesinger, the Lexi-
con 224 is the most ubiquitous and best-selling studio digital reverb ever
made. The original 224 was a landmark achievement in digital reverb and
served as the very product to put Lexicon on the studio map — and a remote
control on every console. The 224's Concert Hall A program is considered to
be one of the finest reverbs ever made, and its plate programs practically de-
fined the 80's drum sound.