Joemeek British Channel VC6Q User Manual 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. In this mode, gain is automatically added to
compensate for some gain loss of compression.
'COMPRESSION' simply adds gain to the compression sidechain and so
increases compression. In simple terms this changes the 'threshold' of the
compression although with this compressor the 'threshold' is not clearly
defined; the compression starts very gradually and the compression ratio
changes with programme content and volume.
'ATTACK' sets the time that the compressor takes to act. Fully clockwise
(fastest) it's possible to make it 'overshoot' on some percussive programme
material: This means that the compression electronics are driven hard
before the gain has been controlled by the light cells. The cells catch up
and over-compress momentarily giving a tiny dip immediately following the
start of the 'note'. This is best demonstrated when recording drums. Used
sparingly this can contribute to musical drive. Slower attacks are used
where the compression needs to be less obvious. The setting of the attack
control is very critical to the compression sound.
'RELEASE' sets the time during which the path gain returns to normal after
compression. Generally, the longer the time, the less obvious is the
compression. The most exciting compression sounds are created with fast
attack times coupled to fast release times.
'HF' is a lift and cut control to increase or decrease the sharpness of the
sound.
'MF' is a lift and cut control to increase or decrease those edgy mid
frequencies.
'MF freq' sets the operating frequency of the mid control.
'LF' is a lift and cut control to increase or decrease the 'weight' of the sound.
'OUT VOL' is simply a volume control for the output of the British Channel. It
operates after the LED VU meter so does not affect the overload margin of
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