Use the Expander carefully. The modulated noise of the ground floor level is much more
audible than a higher ground floor level without such modulation.
The Expander’s threshold must be lower than the compressor’s threshold. If you raise it
too much, you might cut into low parts of the signal, such as reverb tails.
The Expander’s range parameter determines the width of the level range. Also, the target
Factor enables you to determine whether to apply different settings to all three bands,
and if so, just how different the settings should be!
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We are almost finished – just one parameter left: the Digital Ceiling. Set this parameter
to a value lower than 0 dB to prevent unwanted clipping.
The most common value is -0.01 dB. With this setting, the maximum output level is -0.01
dB. No portion of your signal will be able to pass this absolute setting. Now you can be
absolutely sure that there is no clipping – and the difference from 0 dB will be
imperceptible.
If you want to further edit your settings, please make sure that you first switch the Digital
Ceiling back to 0 dB. Otherwise, you won’t be able to tell if there are internal clips!
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MASTER YOUR MIX WITH MASTER X5
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We recommend using the dedicated PowerCore file handling system that, apart from
recall; store and compare facilities, allows for easy exchange of entire preset folders with
other users, between Windows/Mac platforms and also between different host
applications.
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Click “File” to open the File menu.
Load Preset: Select to load presets from the default preset location.
Save Preset: Select to save the preset in My Presets folder.
My Presets: Via “My Presets” you are able to load you own presets.
If you chose to store presets in other locations than the “My Preset” folder, these
presets will not appear in the “My Preset” drop down menu. However, you can still
navigate to, and load these presets via the Load Preset function.
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This is the name of the preset.
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The [UP]/[DOWN] arrows can be used to browse through all presets.
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With the A/B compare function you can easily compare different parameter settings when
working with the plug-in.
PRESET HANDLING