Awesome - Great Controls

I have used this with the e-guitar for about a year and the spacial effects produced by the MX200 are truly amazing. But the layout of controls and the overall interface is what makes this unit AWESOME. I despise menu driven controls on digital equipment. When you're getting into a good jam, it is a real drag to stop and scroll and click through menus. I will not try to describe how good the MX200 interface is other than to point out that unlike virtually every other piece of digital equipment notice that there is no LCD - there is just a list of effect names and separate indicators, selector controls and knobs for each channel. This is how a digital interface should be done. Note that I cannot say this for any of the other Lexicon units including their pro stuff. Meaning if I needed four channels I would buy two MX200's instead of one MX400. I just hope Lexicon realizes how much better the MX200 controls are over pretty much everything else and doesn't screw this up with "improvements" in a new revision. To hell with LCDs, I want knobs! The only thing that could make this better would be to backlight the effect names.

MX200 is a reliable problem solver

I have used the MX200 in live sound situations for a while now and it has never failed me. It sounds great and it's easy to operate.

That last bit is a real plus -- because when training new folks to run the big board complexity is the enemy. The MX200 is simple, rock solid and predictable so training is always a snap. I can walk away from the board confident that the new guy will have a great show.

What I really love though is that the audio quality is great. So when I needed a unit to throw some delay and reverb effects into the tracking rig at my studio I reached again for the MX200 and wasn't disappointed.

It took less than 5 minutes to patch the MX200 into my monitor system. Now, when the singer wants "a little reverb" during tracking I just point to the knob on their Furman and let them dial it in. It's an instant solution that gets out of the way so the session gets done with smiles all around.

You just can't go wrong with the MX200!

great bang for the buck

even though the price on this unit is deceivingly low, it does carries the family name proudly, I put it on a snare and toms on a mix at my studio and I instantly felt that studio reverb tone... I really like it!!!

MX200 overboard!

I've had this unit for 2 - 3 years and it has given me pretty good use for the money paid but, from day one, I was never impressed by it. The delays were off to one side. The reverbs are not very visual. The last three weekends, it has taken an electrical nose dive. It needs a technician to fix whatever the problem is. Our trio plays on the back deck at a marina and, I kid you not, I almost took the unit out of the rack and threw it in the bay. My last unit before this one was an Alesis microverb (10 - 12 years old) which only had one effect at a time but the stereo reverbs were spoiling and delays were perfect. I'm calling my SW sales dude for his recommendation. TC or Alesis?

outboard vst

I've been a live mixer for the last six years and I have found that the MX200 has by far the best bang for the buck, with more and better fx's than the TC M300 (as well as cleaner controls of the parameters) this is a solid live unit, and with the USB/spdif VST remote processing it is also a brilliant studio accessory. I only wish it had RTAS for ProTools.