Getting The Sound You Want
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ABOVE SUGGESTIONS THEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE A BIT MORE LEE-WAY. IT IS VERY EASY TO
LOSE YOUR WAY ONCE YOU START 'CRANKING' LOTS OF DIFFERENT SETTINGS.
More CLARITY
We can obtain extra clarity and quality in several ways.
Multi-band AGC:
Slow down the release times, making them slower.
Increase the bands Ratio control so more control is performed and less is allowed to pass to the following
peak limiter.
Increase the band and channel coupling ratios, preserving the spectral and channel balance of the original
program material
Multi-band Limiters:
Speed up the peak attack times, letting less through to the clippers.
Slow down the release times of the average release time constants.
Speed up the average attack time so that the average time constants dominate the control signal providing
slower control.
Increase the HOLD level.
Increase the DELAY times.
Decrease the limiter thresholds, letting less through to the clippers.
Increase the band and channel coupling ratios, preserving the spectral and channel balance of the original
program material
Final clippers: (FM USE)
Decrease the multi-band clipper drive.
Possibly switch the bass clipper to soft mode.
Lower the bass, mid and HF clip levels to prevent less distortion in the final clipper while carefully listening for
distortion generated in the multi-band clipper.
Decrease the final clipper drive.
Increase the clipper finesse control.
Look-ahead limiter: (DRUSE)
Increase the look-ahead limiter drive.
Decrease the attack time constants, speeding up the attack of the secondary time constant circuits.
Increase the decay time constants, slowing down the decay of the secondary time constant circuit.
Adjust the shelf control to obtain the most suitable HF balance.
WE SUGGEST ONLY SMALL MODIFICATIONS FROM FACTORY PRESET SETTINGS IF YOU ARE
MODYFYING LOTS OF THE PARAMETERS. IF YOU ARE ADJUSTING ONLY A COUPLE FROM THE
ABOVE SUGGESTIONS THEN YOU PROBABLY HAVE A BIT MORE LEE-WAY. IT IS VERY EASY TO
LOSE YOUR WAY ONCE YOU START 'TWEAKING' LOTS OF DIFFERENT SETTINGS.
More BASS
We can obtain more bass in several ways
Bass Enhancement:
Increase the shelving filters gain. Listen carefully when adjusting because you can cause suck out of the mid
and upper bass by excessive low frequency boost.
Increase the peaking filters gain.
Multi-band AGC:
Increase the drives to band 1 AGC.
Slow down the band 1 AGC attack time, letting more through to the limiters.
Speed up the band 1 AGC release time, making it faster.
Lower the band 1 Gate threshold, allowing more gain to be applied to low level bass waveforms.
Speed up the band 1 return to rest speed and set the return to rest level to a lower number.
Set the band 1 ratio to 2:1 so that the AGC does not over control the bass, allowing the limiter more control.
Consider 'force gating' the band 1 AGC so the multi-band AGC for band 1 is bypassed.
Reduce the B1<2 coupling control so that band 1 has independent level control and is not coupled to band 2.
Multi-band Limiters:
Increase the band 1 limiter drive.
