Lexicon (company)
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| Industry | Audio electronics |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Woodbury, Orange County, New York |
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Key people
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Francis F. Lee Chuck Bagnaschi Dr. David Griesinger |
| Products | Professional audio production equipment, home theater equipment, consumer audio |
| Parent | Harman International Industries |
| Website | http://www.lexicon.com |
Lexicon is an American company that engineers, manufactures, and markets audio equipment as a brand of Harman International Industries (HII), with offices in Salt Lake City. The company was founded in 1971 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was acquired by HII in 1993.
Lexicon traces its history to the 1969 founding of American Data Sciences by MIT professor Dr. Francis F. Lee and engineer Chuck Bagnaschi, developers of digital audio devices for medical heart monitoring.
The company is widely known for the design and development of the multi-speaker audio system for the Rolls-Royce Phantom — in addition to the Hyundai Genesis, Hyundai Equus, and the Kia K900.
Lexicon is sometimes credited as the inventor of commercial digital delay products. The first product to market was the popular Delta T-101 delay in 1971, followed by the Delta T-102 in 1972.
Lexicon is considered "the godfather of digital reverb", as one of the early players on the reverb/reverberation market. The company was among the first to produce commercially available digital reverb equipment, beginning in 1978 with the Model 224. In 1986, Lexicon released the 480L (costing more than some cars), a successor of the 224XL.
The PCM series was introduced as a smaller, more economical option particularly in live situations where the 480L was too cumbersome for a rack rider. First in the series was the PCM-60 (1984), followed a few years later by the Lexicon PCM-70, the latter adding multi-effects and a digital screen interface. David Gilmour from Pink Floyd used a Lexicon PCM-70 to store the circular delay sounds in songs such as "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Time" in the 1994 The Division Bell Tour.
In the 1990s Lexicon continued the PCM series with two new units, the PCM-80 multi-effects unit and PCM-90 digital reverb. In 1997. they released Model 300 as another iconic multi-effect unit. Lexicon continued the PCM series in the 2000s with new mid-level units including the PCM-96 and PCM-96 Surround, standalone reverb units that easily integrate into DAWs.
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