SABINE SWM7000 Quick Manual page 2

2 Sabine DSP Quick Setup Guide
NOTE: Use these settings as a place from which to start, then adjust to your own satisfaction.
COMPRESSOR/LIMITER
Vocal Settings
A soft voice could be set to 2:1, whereas a loud
RATIO
voice might require a ratio setting of 6:1.
The higher the threshold setting, the more signal
THRESH
is required to initiate compression. Ideally this
should be set to reign in peak levels, and allow
signals of lower gain to pass uncompressed.
Threshold settings will depend on the nature and
variety of the signal source.
Short attack times usually work well for voice. How-
ATTACK
ever, too strong a compression ratio, too low a
threshold, and too fast an attack may attenuate
speech consonants, which provide important in-
telligibility cues to the audience, thus compromis-
ing clarity.
Guitar Settings
A high compression ratio (with gain makeup) will
RATIO
add sustain to held notes and chords.
Moving the threshold will change the audible thick/
THRESH
thinness of the guitar tone, but generally you want
to compress all the notes played.
Be wary of too quick an attack, which may reduce
ATTACK
the percussive attack of the guitar notes.
In general, be wary of too much gain makeup, and too high a
compression ratio, which may make a noisy guitar amplifier
more objectionable. Ratio settings might range from 6 to 19:1,
threshold variable, slower attack, soft knee, output gain
boosted slightly to significantly depending on amount of com-
pression.
Bass Guitar Settings
Set to 4:1
RATIO
Set to compress peaks only.
THRESH
Quick attack, medium release, hard knee; (try vari-
ATTACK
ous release settings, depending on the speed of
notes played).
Output boosted slightly.
GAIN
DE-ESSER
MIC SUPERMODELING
NOTE: Mic SuperModeling
available using beltpack transmitters.
TM
MIC SUPERMODELING
is not
TM
Vocal
RATIO
Soft voice
THRESH
Soft voice
ATTACK
Short attack is better for vocals. Be careful not
to over attenuate speech consonants.
Guitar
RATIO
Less Sustain
THRESH
Thinner sound
ATTACK
Be wary of too quick an attack, which may reduce
the percussive attack of the guitar notes.
-
DE
ESSER
Less reduction
Scroll through available microphone settings. See
website for additional downloadable microphones.
Loud voice
Loud voice
More Sustain
Thicker sound
More reduction
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