They each have a particularly unique flavour. There are some great creative effects type settings which sets the RC 48 apart from the RC 24. This however sounds really smooth and very usable. Like I said, I wasn’t really expecting to like this because for me, Lexicon brings up thoughts of colder & digital sounding reverbs. It visually shows you the ‘shape’ of the reverb tail and with ‘Realtime Audio Analysis’ selected it shows the input signal intensity travelling through the cloud. One of the main features of the interface is the Spectrum display. The RevDamp is different from the HiCut in that it only affects the reverb signal whereas the HiCut affects the whole signal including the Pre Echoes. The Diffusion knob adjusts the clarity and buildup of the early reflection and the RevDamp control adjusts the cutoff of the high frequency dampening. There is also an interesting Pre Echoes tab on the interface allowing you add in and move around up to 6 echoes into the signal. There are some nice presets to get you started. In ‘effect mode’ these parameters are independent of each other allowing for some creative unnatural sounds. The Size control adjusts the overall size of the space and in ‘reverb mode’ is connected to the Shape/Spread and the Mid controls keeping the sound more natural. It’s still got the Predelay and EQ settings like the RC 24, but adds a Shape control linked with the Spread control to determine the sculpt the buildup of the reverb over time. Unlike the RC 24, there are no bright or dark settings for the halls and there is no modulation control. The RC 48 has only 2 different types of algorithms: Hall and Random Hall.
After using it though, I am quite impressed. I have never used the original unit and I probably wasn’t expecting to like this plugin. The RC 48 is based on the Lexicon 480L from 1986. The RC 24 and RC 48 are both algorithmic reverbs, not convolution, and are based on the classic Lexicon units form the 70’s and 80’s. One of the annoying things about that one though is that is needed to be hosted within the Guitar Rig shell. A few years ago they released Reflektor, a pretty comprehensive bundle of convolution reverbs. This is not the first time Native Instruments has ventured into the reverb plugin territory.
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