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DB6: An introduction
English Manual (2014-03-05) 9
One-step loudness management
DB6 is a signal processor that is able to handle
all aspects of loudness in one simple process:
– loudness metering at the input stage,
–
up and/or down conversion
at any stage,
– loudness processing,
– on-line lip-sync delay,
–
loudness metering at the output stage
and
– logging of all relevant loudness statistics.
In short: DB6 is an intelligent loudness processor
that keeps your audio at its finest – regardless
of which platform you need to deliver to. How-
ever, please note that DB6 is
not a substitute for
managing loudness and true-peak level sensi-
bly in production and linking. The best result is
obtained when production, ingest, linking and
transmission is a transparent loop where as little
adjustment as possible happens downstream of
production.
Operating DB6
A DB6 is equipped with one or more signal pro-
cessing cards. Each card encompasses four so-
called engines. Two of these engines are running
the Loudness Wizard algorithms, while the other
two are running the LM6 metering algorithms.
A DB6 Single equipped with one signal pro-
cessing card can process and meter
one audio
stream, while a DB6 Multi equipped with two
additional signal processing cards can process
three independent SDI audio streams.
As you can easily see, DB6 is a „headless sys-
tem“ – it has no front panel controls (with the ex-
ception of the Reset button).
DB6 is operated using the
TC Icon
software,
which you can download from the TC Electronic
website.
You can use the same version of the TC Icon
software to operate DB6 and other professional
broadcast products from TC Electronic (e.g. DB4
and DB8 MKII).
Accordingly, a significant part of this manual
covers operating DB6 using TC Icon software
running on a standard computer, and the screen
shots you see are taken from the OS X or Win-
dows versions of this software.
DB6 offers a variety of ways to engage or dis-
engage processing. Processing may be invoked
automatically, depending on format, level, physi-
cal inputs etc., while remote control can be
achieved via Ethernet, GPI, SDI metadata etc.
When setting up the device, make sure to
only engage the methods you wish to use.
For
example, if GPI inputs are not used, make sure to
set the respective GPI parameters to off.
Please invest some time in learning TC Icon’s
basic concepts
– you will benefit from it when
operating systems that may include many net-
worked TC signal processors.