Manual
Thank you for purchasing the Carl Martin
Compressor/Limiter! We believe this unit to be the most
musically useful guitar dynamics processor on the
market. It has been developed to incorporate the same
features, sonic clarity, quietness, and performance of the
best studio compressor/limiters. Spend a little time with us
here in the manual and you can learn some of the basics
of compression and limiting, and how to get the most out
of your pedal.
Simply put, compression and limiting may be defined as
the active control or modification of the dynamics of an
audio signal.
Dynamics may be described as the loudness characteristic of an instrument: the way the note begins, sustains,
and ends. Every instrument has dynamics; for example, a guitar has a very strong initial attack and a smooth
decay,
while a violin has a generally slower attack and will sustain a note as long as you keep bowing the strings. A
compressor allows you to change the character of a guitar's natural dynamics. The result ranges from a subtle
fattening of the tone to radical singing violin effects, and many useful variations in between.
To begin with, be aware that in any compressor/limiter the controls are interactive, and one control may function
somewhat differently when the other controls are set in various positions. Reading this manual, and spending a
little time familiarizing yourself with the controls will generally produce the best results.
The four controls on the Compressor/Limiter are:
Thres
Comp
Resp
Gain
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