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OPTIMOD-PC
INTRODUCTION
tightened; weak, thin bass is brought up; highs are always present and consistent in
level.
OPTIMOD-PC is also an excellent mastering processor, offering soft knee multiband
compression with knee and ratio controls available separately for each band. This is
followed by a low-IM look-ahead limiter that can typically achieve 12 dB of gain re-
duction before it produces objectionable artifacts—this limiter is exceptionally loud
and clean.
Digital mixing is crucially important to a netcaster who needs to control commercial
content and insertion. Unlike most sound cards, OPTIMOD-PC allows you to mix an
analog source, two digital sources, and two WAVE sources. For example, you could
run a playout system on your computer while using the three hardware inputs for a
live microphone feed, commercial insert, and network insert. Alternatively, you
could run the commercial insert playout software on the same computer as the main
playout system, using OPTIMOD-PC's second WAVE input to separately route the
outputs of the two playout systems to the card. An external mixer usually isn't
needed, making OPTIMOD-PC a more economical system solution than a low-priced
Figure 1-1: Unprocessed Audio
Figure 1-2: Same Audio Processed Through OPTIMOD-PC
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