Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8700, Operating Manual

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OPERATION ORBAN MODEL 8700i
optimized by Orban’s audio processing experts on the basis of years of experience
designing audio processing and upon hundreds of hours of listening tests.
As you increase the setting of the L
ESS
-M
ORE
control, the air sound will become
louder, but (as with any processor) processing artifacts will increase. Please note that
the highest
L
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
L
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
L
ESS
-M
ORE
adjustment. It is wise to set
the L
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
L
ESS
-M
ORE
control gets you close to an optimum trade-off between loudness
and artifacts, so any changes you make are likely to be smaller and to require reset-
ting fewer controls.
In the 8700i, L
ESS
-M
ORE
affects only the dynamics processing (compression, limiting,
and clipping). Unlike the 8200, the 8700i has equalization and stereo enhancement
that are decoupled from
L
ESS
-M
ORE
. You can therefore change EQ or stereo en-
hancement and not lose the ability to use L
ESS
-M
ORE
. When you create a user pre-
set, the 8700i will automatically save your EQ and stereo enhancement settings
along with your
L
ESS
-M
ORE
setting. When you recall the user preset, you will still be
able to edit your L
ESS
-M
ORE
setting if you wish.
Intermediate Modify
Intermediate Modify is a compromise between Basic Modify and Advanced Modify.
It allows adjusting the dynamics section at approximately the level of control availa-
ble in Orban’s 8200 processor. The controls are not extremely dangerous (although
you can still get into trouble if you try hard enough). Most people will never have
any reason to go beyond Intermediate Modify, even if they want to create a “signa-
ture sound” for their station.
Note: Intermediate Modify does not provide
L
ESS
-M
ORE
control. Furthermore, once
you have edited a preset’s dynamics parameters in Intermediate Modify,
L
ESS
-M
ORE
control is no longer available in Basic Modify and will be grayed-out if you access its
screen. As noted above, we recommend using the Basic Modify
L
ESS
-M
ORE
control to
achieve a sound as close as possible to your desired sound before you make further
modifications at the Intermediate Modify level.
Advanced Modify
If you want to create a signature sound for your station that is far out of the ordi-
nary, or if your taste differs from the people who programmed the
L
ESS
-M
ORE
ta-
bles, Advanced Modify is available to you. At this level, you can customize 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.