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Pawn Shop Comp 2.0 - User Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Table of Contents

3. Speci

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cations

4. Overview

5. Front Panel Controls

6. Ideas on Setting the Compressor

7. Rear Panel Controls (The Other Side)

8. Ideas on Tweaking The Other Side

9. A Caveat

10. Ideas for Applications

11. Conclusions

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Summary of Contents for PAWN SHOP COMP 2.0

Page 1: ...PAWN SHOP COMP 2 0 USER MANUAL korne audio com...

Page 2: ...on your track The tube ampli er s Preamp section lets you adjust the warmth and grit of your signal by adding harmonic distortion The solid state FET sidechain delivers the punchy distinctive compres...

Page 3: ...________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 2 Table of Contents 3 Speci cations 4 Overview 5 Front Panel Controls 6 Ideas on Setting the Compressor 7 Rear Panel Controls The Other Side 8 Ideas o...

Page 4: ...ng At 30 db of compression Less than 6 5 25 10 000 cycles 0 db threshold setting Noise Level 74 db below rated output 111 dbm equivalent input noise Input Impedance 15 000 ohms bridging transformer So...

Page 5: ...saturation characteristics and three switchable transformer types which give you surprising control over the overall response of the plugin There s also an Operating Level control which emulates misma...

Page 6: ...up gain 90 of the time you switch this on MANUAL MAKEUP GAIN twist the screw at the center of the VU meter to manually adjust makeup gain by 18dB THRESHOLD lower this turn counter clockwise to set the...

Page 7: ...PRESET BROWSER click on the piece of tape with the Sharpie Text where it says PAWN SHOP COMP to access the preset browser and load and save presets IDEAS ON SETTING THE COMPRESSOR When the Pawn Shop C...

Page 8: ...optical detector circuit We advise you to adjust the compressor section of the Pawn Shop Comp using your ears and not your eyes You ll be playing with it it will sound great then you ll notice the me...

Page 9: ...s emulating setting tube bias incorrectly In an actual piece of physical equipment this wouldn t be the best idea On the Pawn Shop Comp do what you want you won t break anything except the sound barri...

Page 10: ...stic guitars a little bit of cut at 171Hz can clean up an otherwise lumpy chesty sounding track FOCUS this adjusts a gentle wide Q peak style inductor EQ centered at 1 2 kHz and 2 4kHz It s initially...

Page 11: ...round o the high end a bit and add a bit of noise for a more vintage vibe This is a very subtle e ect and it will get lost in a big thick mix However if you re working with less sound sources a voice...

Page 12: ...mulation you can tweak it in ways that you would never do with a physical piece of audio equipment In the real world things blow up and burn out HOWEVER all digital equipment is capable of tremendous...

Page 13: ...tends to dull down the entire guitar sound On The Other Side the WEIGHT control is almost speci cally designed to add back in missing bottom end on compressed guitars while FOCUS will bring out note a...

Page 14: ...everything from kicks to snares to toms Turning up OPERATING LEVEL by 3dB or more makes drums jump out of the speakers like cannons Dialing in a higher BIAS setting can add vintage overload crunch to...

Page 15: ...mix because the high end is usually in the transients Perhaps start with Attack fully to the left and ease it to the right until the mix sort of peps up and pops Remember that RELEASE e ects how much...