Orban OPTIMOD 6300, Operating Manual

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OPERATION ORBAN MODEL 6300
ble to your desired sound before you make further modifications at the
Full Modify level.
Advanced Modify
If you want to create a signature sound for your broadcast that is far out of the or-
dinary, if your taste differs from the people who programmed the
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tables,
or if you are using the 6300 in mastering or production applications, you will find
Advanced Modify useful. Advanced Modify is available to you from the 6300 PC Re-
mote software
only (not from the 6300’s front panel). At this level, you can custom-
ize or modify any subjective setup control setting to create a sound exactly to your
taste. You can then save the settings in a User Preset and recall it whenever you
wish. This sort of customization is usually unnecessary and inappropriate for sound
for picture but can be very useful for radio and production applications.
Compressor attack time, knee, ratio, and threshold controls are available. These con-
trols can be dangerous in inexperienced hands, leading you to create presets that
sound great on some program material but overdrive the look-ahead peak limiter
on other material, causing objectionable pumping or distortion. We therefore rec-
ommend that you create custom presets at the Advanced Modify level only if you
are experienced with transmission processor sound design and if you are willing to
take the time to double-check your work on many different types of program mate-
rial.
In production and mastering applications, you will usually be working with one
piece of program material at a time. Here, you can use all of Advanced Modify’s
power to get the sound you want without being concerned about how your settings
will sound with other material.
The PC Remote software organizes its controls in tabbed screens. The first three tabs
(
E
QUALIZATION
,
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NHANCER
, and
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) access the Basic Modify controls.
The remaining tabs combine the Full Modify and Advanced Modify controls, logi-
cally organized by functionality.
Important Note: Once you have edited a preset’s dynamics parameters
in Full or Advanced Modify, L
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control is no longer available in
Basic Modify. As noted above, we strongly recommend using the
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control to achieve a sound as close as possible to your desired
sound before you make further modifications at the Full or Advanced
Modify levels.
Gain Reduction Metering
Unlike the metering on some processors, when any OPTIMOD 6300 gain reduction
meter indicates full-scale (at its bottom), it means that its associated compressor has
run out of gain reduction range, that the circuitry is being overloaded, and that
various nastinesses are likely to commence.