Rob Mercure
11-27-2006, 02:16 PM
Folks,
When I left the position of Senior Tech at Buddy Rogers Music in Cinty (great guys) they let me have a pile of parts/equipment/stuff/old guitars that had been accumulating for years and years (literally truckloads). Most was of limited use and has been passed onto younger techs who are still building their "first junk pile." But among the "this may have potential" was a Lexicon LXP-5 unit that had been there long enough that no one even remembered what was wrong with it. So I snagged it - if for nothing else a nice project box.
Now recently I've done some research on the unit and some folks out there rave about it so I like to attempt to fix it. But I have no service info of any sorts and this beast resembles the guts of a PC more than anything musical.
Symptom: Pilot lite comes on and there is a hissing/roaring noise in both outputs. That might not be too awfully bad - perhaps an outut buffer or such but, again, I've no information other than the 80 "user's manual" that I downloaded.
Any suggestions where to proceed? And source of service information? Anyone have one of these who would be willing to make a reference measurement for me from time to time? Or anyone with one of these who might be interested in picking up a "parts" unit - all I'm really looking for is a delay, not machine smarter than me (hey, it's got at least 2 CPUs - perhaps another but I don't recogize the number).
Thanks for all the help
Rob
When I left the position of Senior Tech at Buddy Rogers Music in Cinty (great guys) they let me have a pile of parts/equipment/stuff/old guitars that had been accumulating for years and years (literally truckloads). Most was of limited use and has been passed onto younger techs who are still building their "first junk pile." But among the "this may have potential" was a Lexicon LXP-5 unit that had been there long enough that no one even remembered what was wrong with it. So I snagged it - if for nothing else a nice project box.
Now recently I've done some research on the unit and some folks out there rave about it so I like to attempt to fix it. But I have no service info of any sorts and this beast resembles the guts of a PC more than anything musical.
Symptom: Pilot lite comes on and there is a hissing/roaring noise in both outputs. That might not be too awfully bad - perhaps an outut buffer or such but, again, I've no information other than the 80 "user's manual" that I downloaded.
Any suggestions where to proceed? And source of service information? Anyone have one of these who would be willing to make a reference measurement for me from time to time? Or anyone with one of these who might be interested in picking up a "parts" unit - all I'm really looking for is a delay, not machine smarter than me (hey, it's got at least 2 CPUs - perhaps another but I don't recogize the number).
Thanks for all the help
Rob