Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8600, Руководство по эксплуатации

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OPERATION ORBAN MODEL 8600
“adult contemporary” and “soft rock” formats where long time-spent-listening is
desired.
SMOOTH JAZZ, SMOOTH JAZZ MX:
These presets are designed for commercial sta-
tions playing smooth jazz. They are loud presets designed to prevent stridency with
saxes and other horns.
SMOOTH JAZZ
is based on a custom 8500 preset that has
been used successfully by a major-market smooth jazz station with very good rat-
ings. The
SMOOTH JAZZ MX
preset exploits the 8600’s ability to produce more tran-
sient impact and lower distortion. For either preset, if the loudness/distortion
tradeoff is not to your taste use
L
ESS
-M
ORE
to turn it down, producing lower loud-
ness with less distortion.
URBAN: There are two
URBAN
(Rap) presets:
HEAVY
and
LIGHT
. These are 8500-
style presets that have been retained in the 8600 mainly for historical reasons;
GREGG MX, IMPACT MX
, and
EDGE MX
are more contemporary sounding.
The
URBAN
presets are similar to
ROCK-MEDIUM
and
ROCK-OPEN
but with a dif-
ferent bass sound. They use the 3-pole (18 dB/octave) shape on the bass equalizer.
URBAN-HEAVY
is appropriate for Urban, Rap, Hip-Hop, Black, R&B, Dance and other
similar formats.
URBAN-LIGHT
is appropriate for light R&B formats.
Equalizer Controls
Table 3-2 on page 3-31 summarizes the equalization controls available for the Five-
Band structure.
These EQ controls are available in Basic Modify, Intermediate Modify and
Advanced Modify screens. However, some of the control names have ab-
breviated names in the Advanced Modify screen, as noted in the table.
Except for
B
RILLIANCE
and
DJ B
ASS
B
OOST
,
these equalization controls are common to
both the Two-Band and Five-Band structures.
The equalizer is located between the AGC and multiband compressor sec-
tions of both structures.
Any equalization that you set will be automatically stored in any User Preset that
you create and save. For example, you can use a User Preset to combine an unmodi-
fied Factory Programming Preset with your custom equalization. Of course, you can
also modify the Factory Preset (with
L
ESS
-M
ORE
, Intermediate Modify, or Advanced
Modify) before you create your User Preset.
In general, you should be conservative
when equalizing modern, well-recorded
program material. Except for Bass Shelf
Gain, most of the factory presets use less
than 3 dB of equalization.
Bass Shelf Controls
, the Five-Band
structure’s low bass equalization controls,
are designed to add punch and slam to
rock and urban music. They provide a
Hz
55 110 220 440
0 dB
+3 dB
+6 dB
Bass
Bass Shelf Hinge Frequency
6dB/oct
12dB/oct
18dB/oct
Bass