Customer Reviews

Lexicon Omega Studio USB Audio Interface

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Simple interface, high quality mic preamps, powerful headphone amp. The inputs and outputs can be balanced or unbalanced. Cubase LE is great software and easy for beginners to learn. My only complaint is that there is no power switch on the interface, and the unit gets fairly warm after being left on for awhile- you have to manually unplug it or build a switch into the cable.

Great Interface, Kind of hard to put together at first, but once it starts going, you can't stop. ost of my issues hve been with the software, but the interface itself is incredible!!

I've given this product a chance as an owner for over a year now but the quality is just terrible. After purchasing the Lexicon Omega the device would disconnect about 5 times a day and I would have no sound until I unplugged and replugged the USB/power in a specific order. Lexicon was very helpful and replaced the mainboard in a timely manner.

Since then the sound quality has been slowly deteriorating to the point where I now have a constant hiss that continues to get louder. When I turn the level knob I get extremely loud hissing and popping around the 25% mark. Sometimes the levels between the two speakers don't match and I have to make minor adjustments to the level knob until they match back up.

I've decided to ditch the Lexicon for a more reputable product.

I have been using the Lexicon Omega as the interface for my home studio for three years. I use the Cubase LE that comes with it as well. Three albums later it has never let me down. There are only two things I would like to see improved/ changed.. (1)There needs to be an "off" button (2)option for USB power (this unit has it's own power source). Neither are a big deal.

I use the Omega as my primary sound card for my computer (running into powered speakers)I run the FOUR inputs into a snake that goes to my recording room (two direct and two lines in into an outboard mic preamp) This way I have four phantom powered mics recording at the same time. This may be the best feature of the Omega: FOUR independent inputs through a USB connection!

The "instrument in" on the front works well. I've recorded most of my bass parts (and some acoustic guitar) by going direct into the front instrument in jack.

Getting the Lexicon, Cubase and your computer (and midi) to work together can be a challange, but it does work very well once it's set up correctly.

I just completed Rocksploitation's 3rd CD at my home studio and we are very pleased with the results

I've owned this interface for about a year and a half. After about three months of moderate use it started acting up on me (such as disconnecting). These things continued to get worse with more time and after about it year it stopped working altogether. I will give it that the sound quality was fair and Cubase LE isn't a bad 'out of the box' recording program. Furthermore, the preamps leave something to be desired. I was able to get a few decent sounding recordings out of it while it lasted, but I could have spent my money much more effectively on another product. I would recommend something by PreSonus or M-Audio.

It works great when it wants to. From day one, IT will decide whether or not IT wants to actually finish a song without disconnecting from the computer via the USB cable. Apparently, the connection in the interface is loose (on the inside of the box) and tell the computer "Well, I'm done, now you can use your own internal mic". This is really frustrating when my 10 year old is just about to finish Master of Puppets on the drums and it decides to shut off the external mic and go to the mic on the computer.

Horrible support for the MAC, despite claims that it is compatible with 10.4 and above. The software reverb is VST not AU and will not install in 10.5. There is nowhere on the companies support page that even mentions the Mac version. All of the controls are on the hardware including routing and volume as well as live input mix. Routing is problematical and is made very unclear when in apps using the interface. Logic had no problems getting signal, but Guitar Rig 2 and 3 couldn't get signal no matter what I did (if I cant get it to work, I'm returning the unit.) Sound quality is adequate and I were only using Logic I would have scored it at 3 or 4.

I've had a few different ones and this is great. You get a lot of bang for you buck. the phantom power its quite helpfull

I had problems getting this to work. After several attempts with the manufacturer, I gave up and sent it back. The tech was very helpful, but nothing I tried would resolve the problem.