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Joemeek British Channel VC6Q User Manual

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User's Guide
The British Channel VC6Q is precision electronics in the style of Joe Meek,
the first independent record producer in the 1960's bringing humanity and
individuality back to sound recording at the millennium. It's there to get the
absolute best performance out of musical instrument, microphone, recorder
and the final mix. Read the instructions carefully; they have been written as
a result of practical experience.
Ted Fletcher
VC6Q
British Channel
JOEMEEK
JOEMEEK
C O M P R E S S I O N
C O M P R E S S I O N
VC6Q British Channel
photo optical compressor
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  • Page 1 MUSICIAN AND STUDIO User's Guide The British Channel VC6Q is precision electronics in the style of Joe Meek, the first independent record producer in the 1960's bringing humanity and individuality back to sound recording at the millennium. It's there to get the absolute best performance out of musical instrument, microphone, recorder and the final mix.
  • Page 2 VC6Q - User's guide British Channel...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Ted Fletcher This instruction book was written by Ted Fletcher; the designer of the original JOEMEEK compressor and the whole JOEMEEK range of professional audio equipment. Ted worked in the studio with Joe Meek, the legendary record producer, in the mid 1960s.

  • Page 4: The Joemeek British Channel

    Nowadays, many of these notions have been forgotten and 'quality' electronics is getting rarer and rarer. But the JOEMEEK range of specialist electronics applies these professional rules and you can hear the difference! The function of a microphone preamplifier is not complex, and the microphone/input amplifiers on normal professional mixers do it quite well;...

  • Page 5: What's In It

    JOEMEEK JM47, The Neumann range, the AKG C3000 and C414, Microtech Gefell, and Audio Technica. WHAT'S IN IT? It's best to think of the VC6Q British Channel as three separate pieces of equipment: 1) The Input amplifier.

  • Page 6: What Is A Compressor

    A secondary use of compression (and most important for us) is to introduce some artificial dynamics into sound to make it sound more exciting. This is what the JOEMEEK compressor does best. WHAT IS A COMPRESSOR?

  • Page 7: The Equaliser

    - User's guide British Channel In spite of what advertisements may say, it is not possible to replicate the complex musical effects of the JOEMEEK compressor either with a VCA compressor or with any digital system. 3) THE EQUALISER WHAT IS AN EQUALISER? It's basically a tone control.
  • Page 8 VC6Q - User's guide British Channel British Channel Too little gain and the sound will be too quiet and electronic background noise from various sources could become a problem; too much and the Channel could become overloaded and distorted. 'IN/OUT' switches the compressor in or out. a blue LED shows when the compressor is active.

  • Page 9: Connecting The Vc6Q

    This use of the VC6Q will improve the quality of sound recorded by its high performance mic/instrument amplifier. Also, the compressor will significantly improve the impact a sound.

  • Page 10: Making The British Channel Go

    There is always the danger (particularly with the smooth response of the JOEMEEK compressor) of increasing the input gain too far and causing excessive noise or even distortion; it's easy to apply 20dB of compression without realising it! If any distortion is obvious, try turning the input gain control down.

  • Page 11: Using The Ins And Outs

    VC6Q - User's guide British Channel settings to achieve different sounds, but remember that when you add 'lift' to HF, MF or LF, then you are adding audio gain to the signal and its possible to overload the circuit. Always watch out for overloads and reduce the input gain if this happens.

  • Page 12: Common Problems

    VC6Q - User's guide British Channel One can be used as a recording output while the other is used for monitoring/PA. COMMON PROBLEMS 1) The microphone doesn't work! Have you got something plugged into the INSTRUMENT input? (this disables the microphone input) Is the phantom power on? (capacitor microphones).

  • Page 13: Technical Performance

    -80dB. c) THE COMPRESSOR The built-in JOEMEEK compressor is slightly different from the big studio unit so that it is easier to use with musical instruments. The 'ratio' or slope is variable to make very sensitive adjustments possible. The attack and release are variable and have extreme ranges.
  • Page 14 VC6Q - User's guide British Channel e) THE METER The first green LED of the meter array stays on all the time to show that power is on. The second green LED lights at an output level of -18dB The third green LED lights at...
  • Page 15 VC6Q - User's guide British Channel LOOK OUT FOR OTHER JOEMEEK PRODUCTS! The JOEMEEK Stereo compressor SC2.2 Classic stereo compression, for great sounding mixes. THE JOEMEEK Jm47 ‘Meekrophone’ True condenser 1” gold diaphragm microphone, with a transformer coupling for supreme sound. Supplied with pictured shockmount, case and 5m cable.

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