Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8600, Руководство по эксплуатации

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OPERATION ORBAN MODEL 8600
GOLD:
GOLD
is loud and “hi-fi”-sounding while still respecting the limitations and
basic flavor of the recordings from the era of the 1950s through 1970s.
For example, we do not attempt to exaggerate high frequency energy in
the GOLD
preset. The highs in recordings of this era are often noisy, dis-
torted, or have other technical problems that make them unpleasant
sounding when the processor over-equalizes them in an attempt to emu-
late the high frequency balance of recently recorded material.
GOLD [ ] MX: There are three GOLD presets using MX technology:
GOLD HEAVY
,
GOLD HEAVY BASS
, and GOLD OPEN.
•
GOLD
OPEN is least sensitive to source material and is appropriate for “oldies”
from the earliest rock and roll era (ca. 1954) to the late 1970s. This preset has
no counterpart among the “8500-style” presets. It is intended for formats
playing music from the earliest rock-and-roll era through the mid 1970’s. It is a
relaxed, clean, easy-sounding preset that does not attempt to emulate the
audio processing of radio stations back in the day when this music is current.
•
GOLD HEAVY
is appropriate for music from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. It
produces a denser sound than
GOLD OPEN
with more of a “classic Top-40”
processing flavor.
•
GOLD HEAVY BASS
is appropriate for carefully produced music from the mid
1960s to the late 1970s. This preset can increase the bass centered broadly
around 60 Hz by as much as 6 dB, which provides “bass thump” for material
whose bass was originally weak. Because
GOLD HEAVY BASS
can amplify bass
by a large amount, it can also amplify rumble and AC line frequency hum (of-
ten from guitar amplifiers in the era before noise gating was used routinely
on instrument inputs when records were mixed). Stations using
GOLD HEAVY
BASS
should therefore make sure that their source material is cleaned up to
be free from rumble and hum.
This preset was designed by Greg Ogonowski and was inspired by early
homebrew multiband processing found on some popular AM radio sta-
tions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly CKLW.
GREGG, GREGG MX:
GREGG
,
GREGG MX
,
GREGG OPEN
,
GREGG OPEN MX
, and
GREGG LL
all use a 200 Hz band1/band2 crossover frequency to achieve a bass
sound similar to the classic five-band Gregg Labs FM processors designed by Orban’s
Vice President of New Product Development, Greg Ogonowski. Dynamically, these
presets produce a slight increase in bass energy below 100 Hz and a decrease of bass
energy centered at 160 Hz. This bass sound works particularly well with radios hav-
ing good bass response, such as many auto radios today.
In terms of loudness, midrange texture, and HF texture, the non-“MX” versions of
these presets are similar to the
LOUD-HOT+BASS
presets. The MX versions fully ex-
ploit the 8600’s ability to increase high frequency “air” and transient impact, and
are excellent general-purpose presets for stations playing post-1980 recordings of
various genres of popular music.
IMPACT MX: There are three
IMPACT
presets.