How It Was Recorded

Gear · reverb

Lexicon Reverb (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 2

  • Miami Vice soundtrack

    Jan Hammer · Album, 1985

    • Drums · Mix effectsVerifiedGated Lexicon reverb, along with heavy compression, was used to process the sampled drum sounds.
  • I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    Joan Jett & The Blackhearts · I Love Rock 'n' Roll, 1981

    • Backing vocals and hand claps · Mix effectsReportedKolotkin says the stacked voices and hand claps were also given reverb that may have been Lexicon, but he is not certain.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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Universal Audio Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb

reverb

Models the Lexicon 224, the firm's first widely used digital reverb. The source does not name the model, so this stands for the maker's family of units: it is not a model of the one on the record.

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