Re: [LAU] Lexicon Alpha Studio

On Mon, October 31, 2016 3:44 am, Yassin Philip wrote: Very competent but basic interface. Has a hardware monitor control which is controlled by a front panel knob, also has a hardware volume knob for the headphone out (which I also like, software crash cannot make unwanted changes to headphone volume). The microphone input (only one) does not have phantom power, and is very basic. Good if you only need 30dB or 40dB of gain, gets noisy at the maximum 50dB gain setting. With no phantom power you won't be using condenser microphones, with limited gain range you won't be using ribbon microphones, but fine for basic close range dynamic microphones. I did not try the instrument input, so cannot comment on that. I have a Lambda, bought an Alpha for someone else. The Lambda is more flexible, it has two microphone inputs with phantom power, but otherwise very similar. I would recommend the Lambda just because the phantom power makes it useful with condenser microphones, but it is double the price. If the extra 50 euros it not significant, I would get the Lambda just for that flexibility. If the money is just not available, or your friend knows that a condenser microphone is not likely anytime in the near future, then as far as I can tell the Alpha is very similar but with only half the features, and proportionally at half the price. -- Chris Caudle