Lexicon Vortex Audio Morphing Processor – 1U Rack, True Stereo – [w/ Power Supply & Footswitch]

Description:

Up for sale is a Lexicon Vortex, the 1993 cult-classic “Audio Morphing” processor. It’s one of the strangest and most inspiring effects Lexicon ever made, and it never had a real successor.

The Vortex isn’t a standard reverb box. Its presets are arranged as 16 A/B pairs (32 effects in all). Each one is a mix of delays, modulation, resonant filtering and pitch movement. Press the footswitch and the unit morphs from one effect to the other: rates, levels, routing, LFOs and envelope all change smoothly over a time you set. With an expression pedal you can sweep the morph by foot. It has tap tempo, and it’s true stereo, so the left and right channels are processed independently.

The sounds range from shimmering, pitch-smeared ambience to rhythmic filtering and outright mayhem. It works great on guitar, synths, drums and vocals, and on any channel of a mix you want to mess up. Daft Punk had one in their late-’90s live rig, and Dimebag Darrell used one for his weird modulated sounds.

Condition: Fully tested and working. THE ONLY ISSUE IS A SLIGHTLY SCRATCHY INPUT VOLUME POT BUT THAT IS EASILY CLEANED.

Specs:

• 1U rack, only about 4" deep, so it fits shallow racks
• Stereo ins and outs on 1/4" jacks, usable as mono-in/stereo-out or dual mono
• Inputs for footswitch (A/B, bypass, step, tap) and expression pedal
• Powered by a 9V AC 1A adapter (Included).

Included: Lexicon Vortex, [original 9V AC power supply],