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THE ELOP

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OWNERS MANUAL  

TUBES  

RULE  

3.31.11cd

Summary of Contents for TUBES RULE ELOP

Page 1: ...THE ELOP OWNERS MANUAL TUBES RULE 3 31 11cd...

Page 2: ...TS SECTION PAGE INTRODUCTION 3 FRONT PANEL 4 REAR PANEL 5 OPERATION NOTES 6 ADVANCED TRICKS 8 MAINS CONNECTIONS 9 TROUBLE SHOOTING 10 INTERNAL ADJUSTMENTS 12 SPECIFICATIONS 13 TEMPLATE FOR USER SETTIN...

Page 3: ...te the photo resistor with an LED rather than electro luminescent elements which are often slow and unreliable We also use a solid state side chain to drive the LEDs The Limiter also features a BYPASS...

Page 4: ...e This prevents image shifts and an instrument should stay where you panned them Limiting individual sounds is usually done with the switch down where each side is independent of the other E METER Sho...

Page 5: ...rsions of the ELOP were unbalanced only This version has both transformer floating balanced and unbalanced transformerless inputs The outputs are similar offering transformer floating bal anced XLR an...

Page 6: ...ther than copy UREI designs because frankly our circuit sounds better and cleaner Back to this matter with fixed time constants We get requests to modify our ELOP for more controls but we get even mor...

Page 7: ...riable time compressors which seem to give Opto units competition our Variable MU is at the top of that list Where the LA style limiters are not always appropriate is for percussion and for mixes wher...

Page 8: ...usly we pull out this trick when two tracks are stepping on each other and EQ isn t making enough room for clarity Trick 4 Drive the compressor from an AUX send and return it to a channel Once you hav...

Page 9: ...voltage at which it will operate 100 120V Operation Uses a 1A MDL SLO BLO fuse 220 240V Operation Uses a 0 5A MDL SLO BLO fuse Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE Information for customers...

Page 10: ...E SIDE WORKS FINE BUT THE OTHER SIDE IS DEAD Let s assume this is not wiring We are pretty sure it is the Limiter If it were solid state you would generally send it back for repair Being a tube unit y...

Page 11: ...er gear is doing worse you just haven t found out yet Your unit will have been factory calibrated and tested twice before you received it Sometimes parts drift a bit in value over the years or you hav...

Page 12: ...de to reflect the actual gain reduction accurately You will probably need to increase the oscillator 10 dB to get Limiting Switch from BYPASS to IN Me ter switches to OUTPUT Adjust GAIN controls to ge...

Page 13: ...units after serial number MELOP B716 shipped after 6 2003 use yellow LED lighting Meters switch to read OUTPUT or REDUCTION STEREO LINK Side Chain High Pass Filter 100Hz or 200Hz THD Noise 1kHz 4 dBm...

Page 14: ...NK STEREO IN BYPASS GAIN REDUCTION TEMPLATE FOR MANLEY ELECTRO OPTICAL LEVELLING AMPLIFIER PHOTO COPY THIS PAGE AND STORE YOUR SETTINGS WITH THE TAPES OR OTHER SESSION NOTES LEVELLING AMPLIFIER ELECTR...

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