This past week it was my duty to go through all of the rack effects in the back of the studio to see which ones work and which ones don’t. I tested 3 different effect units, the T.C. Electronic M2000 Studio Effects Processor, the Lexicon A |ex Digital effects processor, and the DigiTech TSR- 24 True Stereo Reverb/ Multi- Effects Processor. While none of the units worked I learned just how tedious studio equipment can be. With the M2000 for example, the display on the face of the unit is not displaying any text, I checked to see if this is the result of a setting. I didn’t find anything that would help the display issue so I moved onto sound, without anything plugged into the unit, the db meters were going all over the place and it kept showing “overload” as if the signal coming in was so hot it couldn’t handle it. With the lexicon, I wasn’t even able to test it, I searched all around the studio trying to find a power adapter that fit and none of them seemed to fit. I will most likely do some research on my own time to see if one can be ordered, however it would be a shame to order it to find out the device does not even function. Lastly, the TSR-24 was the only device that worked even a little bit. It, along with the DX7, seem to suffer from similar issues. Its display would come on, however the text glitches and I am unable to read it. This is most likely the result of a dead internal battery, what is most likely happening is that the battery keeps the memory from being erased and when it dies the device fails to be able to call up the necessary data to get the unit to function properly.