Final Menu - Omnia .9 Installation & User Manual

FM MENU BASIC MODE

Final Menu

The Final Menu provides control of the final clip drive, bass compression threshold, and, bass clipper threshold. If BS-412
Power Limiting is enabled (for countries that require it), Power Limiter Drive and Peak Limiter Drive controls will also be
displayed.
The Final Clip Drive control sets the drive of the final clipper. Decreasing the drive (moving the slider to the left)
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reduces the amount of clipping. Conversely, increasing the drive (moving the slider to the right) will result in more
clipping. Less clipping will result in a more open, less-processed, cleaner sound, but at the expense of overall loudness.
More clipping can result in a louder on-air sound – but only up to a point. Even if total dial domination and loudness
are your processing goals, there comes a point when the final wave-form is completely full, and increasing the amount
of clipping will no longer yield additional loudness – only more distortion. We strongly recommend using Omnia.9's
oscilloscope as well as your ears to monitor the MPX Output signal while adjusting the final clip drive. This control
ranges from -6.0 to +6.0 in one-quarter dB increments, which should give you the (correct) impression that small
changes make a big difference in the sound. Keep in mind that a setting of +0.00 means the control is at the middle of its
range, but does not necessarily mean that no clipping is taking place.
The Bass Clipper Threshold control sets the threshold of the Bass Clipper. Raising the threshold (moving the slider to
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the left) reduces the amount of clipping performed by the Bass Clipper, but place a greater burden on the Final Clipper.
Conversely, lowering the threshold (moving the slider to the right) will yield more bass clipping, which takes some of
the load off the Final Clipper, but may result in low frequency distortion if set too low.
The Bass Compression Threshold control will only be active on presets that have Wideband AGC 2 set to "Bass Only".
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When active, lower settings provide more bass compression activity.
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