Getting The Sound You Want
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Decrease the clipper hardness control.
WE SUGGEST ONLY SMALL MODIFICATIONS FROM FACTORY PRESET SETTINGS IF YOU ARE
MODIFYING 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 peaking filter gain.
Increase the peaking filter Q factor.
Multi-band AGC:
Increase the drive to the AGC band 1.
Speed up the AGC band 1 release.
Lower the AGC band 1 gate threshold, allowing more gain to be applied to low level bass waveforms.
Consider 'force gating' the AGC band 1 so the multi-band AGC for band 1 is bypassed.
Multi-band Limiters:
Increase the band 1 and band 2 limiter drive.
Slow down the peak attack time for band 1, letting more through to the clippers.
Speed up the release time of the average release time constant of those bands
Slow down the band 1 and band 2 average attack time so that the peak time constant dominates the control
signal providing faster control.
Bass clipper:
Increase the bass clip level.
WE SUGGEST ONLY SMALL MODIFICATIONS FROM FACTORY PRESET SETTINGS IF YOU ARE
MODIFYING 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 TREBLE (HF)
We can obtain more high frequency energy in several ways. The first is the use of a HF Boost equalizer. It can
provide as much as 20 dB of high frequency boost. The ‘HF CLIPPING’ and band 4 ‘PEAK ATTACK’ are also
controls that govern the amount of high frequency control distortion controlled clipping that is performed.
EQ:
Increase the HF Boost gain. Listen carefully when adjusting because you can cause pumping in the band 4
limiter by excessive high frequency boost, as well as increase distortion. Try adjusting the HF Shape control
while listening on varied program material.
Multi-band AGC:
Increase the drive to the AGC band 4.
Speed up the AGC band 4 release time, making it faster.
Lower the band 4 gate threshold, allowing more gain to be applied to low level HF waveforms.
Consider 'force gating' the AGC band 1 so the multi-band AGC for band 1 is bypassed.
Multi-band Limiters:
Increase the band 4 limiter drive.
Slow down the peak attack time for band 4 and speed up the peak release time.
Reduce band 3 to band 4 coupling.
Set the HF clipping control to higher numbers which shifts control from the limiters to the HF clipper.
WE SUGGEST ONLY SMALL MODIFICATIONS FROM FACTORY PRESET SETTINGS IF YOU ARE
MODIFYING 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.
