Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8600, Operating Manual

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OPERATION ORBAN MODEL 8600
The
MB D
RIVE
interacts with the
MB R
ELEASE
setting. With slower release time set-
tings, increasing the
MB D
RIVE
setting scarcely affects density. Instead, the primary
danger is that the excessive drive will cause noise to be increased excessively when
the program material becomes quiet.
You can minimize this effect by carefully setting the
MB G
ATE
T
HRESH
control to “freeze” the gain when the input gets quiet and/or by activat-
ing the single-ended noise reduction.
When the multiband compressor’s release time is set to its faster settings, the setting
Multiband Controls
Intermediate Name Advanced Name Range
Drive MB Drive 0 ... 25
Release (see MB A
TTACK
/ R
EL
screen) Slow, Slow2, Med, Med2,
MFast, MFast2, Fast
— Speech MB Release See above
Gate Threshold Gate Thresh Off, –44 ... –15 dB
Clipping MB Clipping –4.0 ... +5.0 dB
— Speech Thr –4.0 ... +5.0 dB
Down Expander Down Expand Off, –18.0 … 12.0 dB
B5 Down Expander B5 Down Expand Off, –18.0 … 12.0 dB
Band 2 > 1 Coupling (see Band Mix screen) 0 ... 100 %
Band 2 > 3 Coupling (see Band Mix screen) 0 ... 100 %
Band 3 > 2 Coupling (see Band Mix screen) 0 … 100 %
Band 3 > 4 Coupling (see Band Mix screen) 0 ... 100 %
—
Band 4 > 5 Coupling (see Band
Mix screen)
0 ... 100 %
— B1 Compression Threshold –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— B2 Compression Threshold –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— B3 Compression Threshold –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— B4 Compression Threshold –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— Speech B1 Comp Thresh –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— Speech B2 Comp Thresh –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— Speech B3 Comp Thresh –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— Speech B4 / 5 Comp Thresh –16.00 … 0.00, Off
— MB Limit Thr –3.0 +6.0, Off
— Max Dist Ctrl 0 … 18 dB
— Speech Max Dist Ctrl 0 … 18 dB
— HF Clip Thr –16.00 … 0.0, Off
— B5 Clip Thr (UL presets only) –16.00 … 0.0, Off
— B4 Clip Thr (UL presets only) –16.00 … 0.0, Off
— HF Limiter Off, –23.8 ... 0.0 dB
— DownExpStCpl Off, On
— B1/B2 Xover 100. 150, 200 Hz
Table 3-9: Multiband Controls