3-Band Compressor Effect - Midas PRO1 Owner's Manual

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3-Band compressor effect

The 3-band compressor effect is for applying different compression profiles to different
areas of the audio spectrum.
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Control Function
In button Switches the stereo 3-band compressor in/out. It
has an adjacent LED (yellow) for in/out indication.
Threshold control This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
knob used for setting the threshold at which compression
begins. Range is from -50dB to +25dB.
Ratio control knob This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
used for setting the compression ratio. Range is from
25:1 to 1:1.
Make-Up control This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
knob used for boosting the output level of the compressed
signal. Range is from 0dB to +24dB.
Release control This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
knob used for setting the release time of the compressor.
Range is from 0.05sec to 3sec.
Attack control This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
knob used for setting the speed of the onset of
compression once the threshold has been exceeded.
Range is from 0.2ms to 50ms.
SOLO button This control is in the Lo, Mid and Hi sections, and is
used for listening to the compressor's sidechain filter.
It has an adjacent LED (yellow) for on/off indication.
Three-section This has individual meter elements for input (In),
meter gain reduction (GR) and output (Out) positions of the
three bands.
Soft Link button Links the controls with relative offsets. It has an
adjacent LED (yellow) for on/off indication.
Global Knee Sets the rate of transition across the threshold.
control knob Range is from 4 to 40.
Lo Mid Freq Sets the crossover point between the Lo and Mid
control knob compressors. Range is from 40Hz to 1kHz.
Hi Mid Freq Sets the crossover point between the Mid and Hi
control knob compressors. Range is from 640Hz to 16kHz.
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