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OPERATION

ORBAN MODEL 8600Si

If the talent is in the same location as the 8600Si, you can configure the 8600Si’s
analog outputs to supply a special low-latency monitor signal to drive headphones
only. (See step 10 on page 2-31.)

Customizing the 8600Si’s Sound

The subjective setup controls on the 8600Si give you the flexibility to customize your
station’s sound. Nevertheless, as with any audio processing system, proper adjust-
ment of these controls consists of balancing the trade-offs between loudness, den-
sity, and audible distortion. The following pages provide the information you need
to adjust the 8600Si controls to suit your format, taste, and competitive situation.

When you start with one of our Factory Presets, there are two levels of subjective
adjustment available to you to let you customize the Factory Preset to your re-
quirements: Basic Modify and Full Modify. A third level,

Advanced Modify

, is accessi-

ble

only from the 8600Si’s PC Remote software

See page 6-52 for a block diagram of the processing.

Basic Modify

BASIC

MODIFY

allows you to control three important elements of 8600Si processing:

the stereo enhancer, the equalizer, and the dynamics section (multiband compres-
sion, limiting, and clipping). At this level, there is only one control for the dynamics
section:

ESS

-M

ORE

which changes

several different subjective setup control settings

simultaneously according to a table that we have created in the 8600Si’s permanent
ROM (Read-Only Memory). In this table are sets of subjective setup control settings
that provide, in our opinion, the most favorable trade-off between loudness, den-
sity, and audible distortion for a given amount of dynamics processing. We believe
that most 8600Si users will never need to go beyond the Basic level of control. The
combinations of subjective setup control settings produced by this control have been
optimized by Orban’s audio processing experts on the basis of years of experience
designing audio processing, and upon hundred of hours of listening tests.

As you increase the setting of the

ESS

-M

ORE

control, the air sound will become

louder, but (as with any processor) processing artifacts will increase. Please note that
the highest

ESS

-M

ORE

setting is purposely designed to cause unpleasant distortion

and processing artifacts! This helps assure you that you have chosen the optimum
setting of the

ESS

-M

ORE

control, because turning the control up to this point will

cause the sound quality to become obviously unacceptable.

You need not (in fact, cannot) create a sound entirely from scratch. All User Presets
are created by modifying Factory Presets, or by further modifying Factory Presets
that have been previously modified with a

ESS

-M

ORE

adjustment. It is wise to set

the

ESS

-M

ORE

control to achieve a sound as close as possible to your desired sound

before you make further modifications at the Advanced Modify level. This is because
the

ESS

-M