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9.6.2 MORE CLARITY
We can obtain extra clarity and ‘quality’ in several ways:
Multiband AGC:
Slow down the release times;
Multiband 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;
Decrease the master limiter drive;
Decrease the individual limiter drives.
Final clippers:
Decrease the final clipper drive;
Decrease the clipper hardness control;
Decrease the composite clipper drive.
9.6.3 MORE BASS (LF)
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.
Multiband 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.
