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Pawn Shop Comp User Manual
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WEIGHT (cont.) If you're really hammering a signal with the Pawn Shop
Comp’s compressor circuit, adding a few dB of WEIGHT will restore bottom
end and balance. Conversely, when compressing things like vocals and
acoustic guitars, a little bit of cut can clean up an otherwise lumpy, chesty
sounding track.
FOCUS - this adjusts a gentle (wide Q) peak-style EQ centered at 1.2 kHz. It's
initially at 0db gain. Turning it clockwise will add up to +4dB of gain,
counterclockwise will reduce it by -4dB. 1.2 kHz is an ignored area and
people are very hesitant to boost in here, because too much can sound
harsh and/or honky. However, with a wide, gentle curve, a slight boost in
here adds presence and "width." Adding a dB or two of FOCUS across, say, a
drum bus, will make the kit sound wider. It's psychoacoustics for sure—there
is no spacial processing going on in the Pawn Shop Comp—but try it and see
if it doesn't "open things up" in your mix.
OPERATING LEVEL - turn this up to add gain, presence and "in your face."
Turn it WAY up to get HUGE amounts of distortion. In the old days,
mismatched operating level would tend to blow gear up. Literally. Like smoke
from behind the rack and a bad smell that you could tease the intern about
(“Steve—did you just fart??") With the Pawn Shop Comp, the worst you can
get is some digital clipping. Very often turning this up 3dB (clockwise just a
tiny bit) can make a big di
ff erence.
INPUT and OUTPUT - this does what it says it does—you can adjust the input
feeding in and output levels feeding out. If you're adding a lot of gain via the
PREAMP, BIAS and the OPERATING LEVEL controls you will be adjusting the
OUTPUT down. A lot. If the signal feeding into the Pawn Shop Comp is low
—
like the track was recorded too low—you’ll be able to compensate for that
using the INPUT control.
WET/DRY - use this to blend unprocessed signal (dry: what is feeding into the
Pawn Shop Comp) with processed signal (wet: the signal after you run it
through all of the elements of the Pawn Shop Comp). This is a very useful
control. It’s good for restoring a bit of the high end (back it o
ff to about 85%).
Sometimes, after you work on a track or a bus or a channel in solo (which
everyone says you shouldn't do but everyone does), you'll un-solo the track
and hear it in context to the rest of the mix, and realize you maybe went too
far. Back down the e
ff ect by turning the WET/DRY counterclockwise until it
fi ts in better.
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