Advanced Modify - Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8500S Operating Manual

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OPERATION

Advanced Modify

optimized by Orban's audio processing experts on the basis of years of experience
designing audio processing, and upon hundred of hours of listening tests.
As you increase the setting of the L
louder, but (as with any processor) processing artifacts will increase. Please note that
the highest L -M
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and processing artifacts! This helps assure you that you have chosen the optimum
setting of the L -M
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cause the sound quality to become obviously unacceptable.
You need not (in fact, cannot) create a sound entirely from scratch. All User Presets
are created by modifying Factory Presets, or by further modifying Factory Presets
that have been previously modified with a L
the L control to achieve a sound as close as possible to your desired sound
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before you make further modifications at the Advanced Modify level. This is because
the L control gets you close to an optimum trade-off between loudness
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and artifacts, so any changes you make are likely to be smaller and to require reset-
ting fewer controls.
In the 8500S, L
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and clipping). Unlike Orban's OPTIMOD-FM 8200, the 8500S has equalization and
stereo enhancement that are decoupled from L
EQ or stereo enhancement and not lose the ability to use L
ate a user preset, the 8500S will automatically save your EQ and stereo enhance-
ment settings along with your L
you will still be able to edit your L
If you want to create a signature sound for your station that is far out of the ordi-
nary or if your taste differs from the people who programmed the L
bles, Advanced Modify is available to you from the 8500S PC Remote software only
(not from the 8500S's front panel). At this level, you can customize or modify any
subjective setup control setting to create a sound exactly to your taste. You can then
save the settings in a User Preset and recall it whenever you wish.
Compressor attack times and thresholds are available, along with settings affecting
the automatic clipping distortion control. These controls can be exceedingly danger-
ous in inexperienced hands, leading you to create presets that sound great on some
program material and fall apart embarrassingly on other material. We therefore rec-
ommend that you create custom presets at the Advanced Modify level only if you
are experienced with on-air sound design, and if you are willing to take the time to
double-check your work on many different types of program material.
The PC Remote software organizes its controls in tabbed screens. The first three tabs
(E , S
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The remaining tabs combine the Full Modify and Advanced Modify controls, logi-
cally organized by functionality.
Important Note: Once you have edited a preset's dynamics parameters
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setting is purposely designed to cause unpleasant distortion
control, because turning the control up to this point will
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affects only the dynamics processing (compression, limiting,
setting. When you recall the user preset,
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E , and L -M
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control, the air sound will become
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-M adjustment. It is wise to set
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. You can therefore change
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setting if you wish.
) access the Basic Modify controls.
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