[Honch]

I've been readin this thread for quite a while, with great amusement and find most of it quite intriguing. I find it peculiar though, that no one has mentioned the "ECM reverb" yet.

To those of you who works at Lex, can you hear what preset they use on ECM recordings? I e by engineer Jan-Erik Kongshaug and/or Manfred Eicher?

For those who doesn't know:

ECM is a SMALL record label (German/Norwegian) specialising in chamber jazz music, and uses a lot of silence and - especially - space in their recordings. I e lots of ambience added to their production. Known artists are Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and so on. Critics have been labeling the label such as "the most beautiful sound next to silence" and "the only label not in need to ever remaster their back catalog". But that's another thread, topic and discussion.

But to me, that label has always been the one to promote and pitch "Lexicon reverb" sound the most, to me anyway. A whole demo label for Lexicon, so to speak. Although, in some instances, too excessively. Violinist Paul Giger, and some Pat Metheny Group productions comes to mind, for overdoing it. Pat left the label when he thought Manfred Eicher went over the top adding excessive reverb to his material.

Can you hear that they're using (or was) Lexicon units at all? And what presets or algorithms?

/Honch