KORNEFF PAWN SHOP COMP, Руководство пользователя

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Pawn Shop Comp User Manual
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OVERVIEW
The Pawn Shop Comp is a vintage style compressor/limiter. It has a tube
emulation audio circuit path, but the detector circuit, which determines
compression curves (punch and smoothness) is a solid state FET emulation.
This means that the Pawn Shop Comp has the warmth of a tube compressor,
but the punchie and distinctive compression characteristics of a classic
early-70’s solid state compressor. You can think of it as the love child of an
LA-2a and a Neve 2264, if you
fi nd that helpful. But isn't either of those really.
It is its own thing.
In addition to the compressor, the Pawn Shop Comp has a pre-amp section
which allows you to adjust warmth and add grit to your signal by adding
harmonic distortion, and a two band EQ section, which lets you add gentle
vintage-style peaking equalization curves to the lows and mids. This EQ is
subtle, but you'll
fi nd it very useful.
There's also an Operating Level control, which emulates mismatched gear
levels, and lets you dial in even more punch and attitude (this is a really
useful control that almost got left o
ff the fi nal product! Glad we left it on!).
There are output and input controls to properly gain stage the Pawn Shop
Comp in your signal
fl ow, as well as a wet/dry control for built in parallel
processing.
Finally, you can switch between traditional carbon or metal fi lm resistors,
which e ff ects the high end, and two di ff erent sets of FETs, which allow you to
adjust the compression curves of the Pawn Shop Comp.
The front panel has all the controls normally found on a compressor:
threshold, ratio, attack, release and both a manual and auto makeup gain
(pro tip: switch it to Auto and leave it alone). The back panel allows you to
adjust preamp gain and saturation, the EQ section, the Operating Level, input
and output, and swap out resistors and FET's.
The Pawn Shop Comp isn't just a compressor; it's really a channel of
integrated components. And this allows you use it on literally any track of
your recording, or across any bus, and get stellar results.
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