The Tone Page - Akai CD3000XL Operator's Manual

EDIT PROGRAM - SINGLE

THE TONE PAGE

If the IB304F is fitted, the CD3000XL also features a simple tone control which is accessed via
F8 - . Pressing this will display this screen:
The TONE section can best be described as 'spectral tilt'. If you imagine a see-saw, the bench
is the
parameter. For example, when the controls are set as shown in the above screen diagram, the
response would be flat but with a setting of 50 for the centre frequency parameter and +50 for
the slope parameter, you would have a response graph something like this:
Here, bass frequencies are attenuated whilst high frequencies are boosted. Setting the
parameter to -50 would reverse the angle, cutting high frequencies and boosting LF.
By setting the
this:
Here, some bass frequencies are cut but some mid and a lot of high frequencies are boosted.
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parameter and the fulcrum over which it rocks is the
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CENTRE FREQUENCY=50 SLOPE=+50
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CENTRE FREQUENCY
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CENTRE FREQUENCY=25 SLOPE=+50
CENTRE FREQUENCY
FREQUENCY
lower, you may create a tone response something like
FREQUENCY
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