Factory Programming Presets - Orban Optimod-FM 8300 Operating Manual

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OPERATION

Factory Programming Presets

Factory Programming Presets are our "factory recommended settings" for various
program formats or types. The Factory Programming Presets are starting points to
help you get on the air quickly without having to understand anything about ad-
justing the 8300's sound. You can edit any of these presets with the L
trol to optimize the trade-off between loudness and distortion according to the
needs of your format. Because it is so easy to fine-tune the sound at the L
level, we believe that many users will quickly want to customize their chosen preset
to complement their market and competitive position after they had time to famil-
iarize themselves with the 8300's programming facilities.
It is OK to use unmodified factory presets on the air. These represent the best efforts
of some very experienced on-air sound designers.
We are sometimes asked about unpublished "programming secrets" for Optimods.
In fact, there are no "secrets" that we withhold from users. Our "secrets" are re-
vealed in this manual and the presets embody all of our craft as processing experts.
The presets are editable because other sound designers may have different prefer-
ences from ours, not because the presets are somehow mediocre or improvable by
those with special, arcane knowledge that we withhold from most of our customers.
Start with one of these presets. Spend some time listening critically to your on-air
sound. Listen to a wide range of program material typical of your format, and listen
on several types of radios (not just on your studio monitors). Then, if you wish, cus-
tomize your sound using the information in the Protection Limiter, Two-Band and
Five-Band sections that follow.
Each Orban factory preset has full L
including the source presets from which they were taken and the nominal L
setting of each preset. Some of the Five-Band presets appear several times un-
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der different names because we felt that these presets were appropriate for more
than one format; these can be identified by a shared source preset name.
8300 V2 FACTORY
Preset Names
PROTECTION
CLASSICAL-2 BAND
CLASSICAL-2B+AGC
CLASSICAL-5 BAND
CLASSICAL-5B+AGC
BASS-PUNCH MX
BASS-PUNCH
COUNTRY-LIGHT MX
COUNTRY-LIGHT
COUNTRY UL
COUNTRY-MED MX
COUNTRY-MED
capability. The table shows the presets,
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PROGRAMMING
Source Preset
PROTECTION
CLASSICAL-2 BAND
CLASSICAL-2B+AGC
CLASSICAL-5 BAND
CLASSICAL-5B+AGC
BASS-PUNCH MX
BASS-PUNCH
ROCK-LIGHT MX
ROCK-LIGHT
COUNTRY UL
ROCK-SMOOTH MX
ROCK-SMOOTH
ORBAN MODEL 8300
con-
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Presets
Normal
Less-More
7.0
7.0
7.0
7.0
5.0
9.5
9.5
7.0
7.0
7.0
7.0
7.0
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