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FACTORY PRESETS
M&F - News Presenter – Natural
This preset is virtually identical to the “M&F - News Presenter - Soft Tone” preset but adds a bit of action in the
“Fidelity” section of the multiband processing to give an even more neutral sound than “M&F - News Presenter -
Soft Tone”.
M&F - Natural Loud
A fairly neutral yet aggressive preset, “M&F - Natural Loud” focuses a bit more processing effort on the mid and
high bands with slightly lower thresholds. Low and high band frequencies are at 250 Hz and 2.6 kHz respectively.
The attack times are similar to “M&F - Soft Tone” but the release times have been slowed down, with a slightly
faster release and slightly higher output in the high band than the other bands. The mid and low processing bands
also get a very slight boost in output level. This preset adds a bit more action in the “Fidelity” section and leans
heavily on the final brick wall limiter (6 dB of added drive, “Fast” release) to achieve its loudness.
M&F – Natural
Identical to the “M&F - Natural Loud” preset, with the exception that the brick wall limiter has been returned to
0 dB of additional drive and a “Medium Fast” release time. In addition, the frequency of the “High” band has been
changed to 2.11 kHz.
M – Punchy
This is a preset that will definitely stand out from the rest. Leans heavily on the high and mid bands of the process-
ing with lowered thresholds in those bands, while there is much less action in the low band due to a fairly high
threshold. The low and high bands are at 90 Hz and 2.26 kHz respectively. All 3 bands have higher drive levels with
slightly slower attack times and much faster release times. “Sound Impact System” is enabled in this preset and
definitely does give it that extra “punch”. The high and low bands are accentuated with higher output levels from
the processing section. This should give a nice healthy low end with excellent vocal clarity.
M - Hot tone
Similar to “M - Punchy”, this preset has an even more aggressive feel to it. The drive to all 3 bands has been
increased substantially (set to 8 dB) with faster still release times. The “High” band has been set to 2.11 kHz with
the “Low” band at 90 Hz. Output from the multiband section has a nice “scoop” to it with boosts in the high and
low bands and a cut in the mid band.
M - Hit tone
This preset is somewhere between “M - Punchy” and “M - Hot Tone” in terms of feel. The “Fidelity” section is
enabled here for a very slight pull back of the multiband in the mid and low bands to keep it from getting too muddy
or aggressive. “Sound Impact System“ is also enabled (as it was in the “M - Punchy” preset) but set for slightly
more action than in “M - Punchy”. Drive in all three bands is slightly increased (1.2 dB), with the thresholds set for
a bit more activity in mid and high bands. Attack and release in all three bands is fairly fast, with the fastest release
in the mid band. The frequencies of the low and high bands have been set to 80 Hz and 1.3 kHz respectively. This
preset definitely has a pretty substantial boost in the low end with a 5.8 dB increase in that band set on the output,
while the mid band has a slightly smaller increase (1.6 dB) and the high band actually has a very small cut (-0.2
dB). Finally, this preset leans slightly on the final brick wall limiter with an added 1.6 dB of drive for just a bit of
extra loudness.
