Making And Saving Changes - Omnia .9 Installation & User Manual

GENERAL PROCESSING ADVICE

Making and Saving Changes

Human nature is fickle; the human ear adapts and tires quickly; and Omnia.9 is powerful! With those things in mind, here are
some recommended "Do's" and "Don'ts" when making and saving changes to presets:
DO resist the temptation to constantly fiddle with every control right after you put Omnia.9 on the air.
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DON'T make hasty, radical changes.
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DON'T make adjustments to too many parameters at once – that makes it difficult to determine which of the adjustments
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is actually responsible for the changes (for better or worse) you're hearing on the air.
DO look to the Band Mix and Parametric EQ sections first to achieve the spectral balance (aka "signature sound")
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that you're looking for. These are powerful adjustments, and a little EQ can go a long way. This is generally "safer" than
making adjustments to the target, attack, and release rate controls as it is sometimes difficult to know how the different
compression stages interact with one another on all material.
DO take breaks when adjusting your processing. Ears tire quickly, and if you stay at it too long, you're almost sure to make
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changes influenced by fatigue.
DON'T turn your monitor speakers up too loud when making adjustments. High listening levels cause ears to tire even
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more quickly and mask both gain riding artifacts and distortion. Most listeners play the radio in the background, and
problems tend to be more audible at comfortable listening levels.
DO make small adjustments, particularly to critical controls like Clipper and Limiter thresholds.
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DO take the time to calibrate a set of high-quality reference monitors (a process described in detail in this manual) so
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that any changes you make aren't skewed by colorations of the speakers or room.
DON'T rush the process. Use the "sleep-on-it" method when you've reached a point where you are mostly satisfied with
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the sound, and then re-evaluate it the next day. If it still sounds good, STOP. If it doesn't, make a few adjustments and
walk away for another day.
DO use the "Save As" method of naming and saving your custom presets rather than over-writing them. This will allow
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you to return to any point in your adjustments if you get too far "off track" and keep you from having to remember (or
guess) what changes you've made along the way.
Many Omnia.9 users have asked if they can make their own custom presets "from scratch." All custom presets start life as a
factory preset, but the most straightforward, neutral-sounding factory preset for FM is "Reference Settings," (Home, FM,
Processing, Reference Settings) and as such provides the closest thing to a "blank canvas" possible for building your own preset
from the ground up.
For AM, use the "Everything Flat" preset as your starting point.
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