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Lexicon Ionix U82S – A Well Thought-out Hardware For Efficient Handling of Recording Tasks of Project Studio
The wide range of Lonix made by Lexicon is popular for trading Firewire for USB. Lexicon’s Ionix range comprises of three audio/MIDI interfaces with an angled desktop housings, specially designed to fit between the keyboards and monitor. One of the largest Ionix is the eight-input Lexicon’s Ionix U82S, the main specs of which is detailed in its vital statistics box. Lexicon’s Ionix U82S is a decent and bundled software package having Pantheon II reverb plug-in with Toontrack’s EZ Drummer Lite together with Steinberg’s Cubase LE4.
Lexicon’s Ionix U82S hardware is solidly built and can fit neatly on a non-slip rubber feet under a screen. The positioning of both the sockets and its inner controls are well thought out with its phantom-power switches is rightly placed in the rear-panel. A wide space is allocated for the combo jack/XLR sockets.
The Lexicon Ionix U82S is a good interface for providing well thought-out hardware feature set. It is installed with good sonic and commonsensical ergonomics with good collection of reverb plug-in.
Lexicon’s Ionix U82S is good to look at, having decent LED metering and LEDs are sensibly employed for status indication. A negative side of the instrument is that the pointers of the rotary controls cannot be easily seen. The Lexicon’s Ionix U82S is a two instrument inputs and the Ionix’s connections are found in the rear panel having two headphone sockets located on both sides of the unit.
The preamps of the Lexicon’s Ionix U82S have identical design to manage the range of recording tasks of project-studio with confidence. The involved monitoring system of the device performs by supplying a combination of inputs by the interface straight into its outputs within its analogue domain. Thus you can conclude that the Lexicon’s Ionix U82S is the correct zero-latency design.
You will find all the monitoring signals arrive in mono next to its outputs. Striking the Stereo button by the side of any channel pair will fetch odd number input in the left output whereas an even number input will fetch the right output. Thus you will be able to accommodate apposite screening of stereo microphone array.
The only real limitation of Lexicon’s Ionix U82S is no ways are found to set the direct monitoring level of the input separately of its preamp increase. On flattening the gain control of the instrument for monitoring purposes, the recorded resolution will be reduced while on raising the gain, the recording will be clipped.