Strymon LEX User Manual

USER MANUAL

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Lex - rotary User Manual

Front Panel

FAST ROTOR SPEED: Controls
the speed of the rotors in FAST
speed.

MIC DISTANCE: Varies the
distance of the stereo mics from
the horn rotor and the single
mic on the woofer rotor. Turn
towards minimum for a more
pronounced, aggressive horn
sound with mics up close. Turn
towards maximum for more
ambience. The effect will be
most audible with the horn rotor.

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PREAMP DRIVE: Controls the
drive of the rotary cabinet’s
tube preamp and phase inverter
stages. Turn up for a more
overdriven cab sound.

FAST ROTOR

SPEED

SLOW / FAST FOOTSWITCH:
Changes the motor speed from fast to
slow. HOLD for brake.

MIC DISTANCE

HORN LEVEL

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BYPASS FOOTSWITCH:
Engages and disengages effect. Bypass mode is

true bypass. LED on indicates that the effect is
engaged.

PREAMP

DRIVE

BYPASSSLOW/FAST

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HORN LEVEL:

Controls the output
level of the high
frequency horn
rotor.

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Secondary Functions

CAB DIRECTION: Changes the
position of the cabinet relative to
the microphones. In the FRONT
orientation (counterclockwise)
the sound travels through the
slats in the wood cabinet. In the
REAR orientation (clockwise),
the the cabinet is open for a
different sound. The default
position is REAR.

SLOW ROTOR
SPEED: Controls

the speed of the
rotors in SLOW
speed.

FAST ROTOR

SPEED

( SLOW ROTOR

SPEED )

( CAB
DIRECTION )

MIC DISTANCE

HORN LEVEL

( ACCELERATION )

REARFRONT

ACCELERATION: Controls
how quickly the rotors
transition from Fast to Slow
and from Slow to Fast speed.
The rotors will accelerate
independently. The low
frequency rotor accelerates
more slowly just like an actual
rotating speaker system.

PREAMP

DRIVE

( LEVEL )

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LEVEL: Controls
the +/- 6dB boost
or cut when the
pedal is engaged
(12:00 on the
PREAMP DRIVE
knob is unity gain)

BYPASSSLOW/FAST

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Hold down SLOW/FAST and BYPASS to access all secondary functions on
the knobs.

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