Putting The Five-Band Structure On The Air; Customizing The Settings; The Five-Band Structure's Full And Advanced Setup Controls - Orban OPTIMOD-FM 5500 Operation Manual

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OPERATION

Putting the Five-Band Structure on the Air

Customizing the Settings

The Five-Band Structure's Full and Advanced Setup Controls

The Five-Band structure is very flexible, enabling you to fine-tune your on-air sound
to complement your programming. There are numerous Factory Programming Pre-
sets. They offer considerable variety, with various combinations of release time,
equalization, low frequency coupling, and high frequency coupling.
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 "Customizing the Settings," which fol-
lows.
The L control can edit each of these presets to optimize the trade-off be-
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tween loudness and distortion according to the needs of the format. The presets can
be further edited with Basic, Full Modify, or Advanced Modify to fine-tune them.
The controls in the Five-Band structure give you the flexibility to customize your sta-
tion sound. Nevertheless, as with any audio processing system, proper adjustment of
these controls requires proper balancing of the trade-offs between loudness, den-
sity, and audible distortion. The following provides the information you need to ad-
just the Five-Band structure controls to suit your format, taste, and competitive
situation.
The tables below summarize the Multiband and Band Mix controls in the dynamics
section. The AGC, Equalizer, Stereo Enhancer, and Clipper controls are common to
both the Two-Band and Five-Band structures and are discussed in their own sections
Multiband Controls
Full Name
MB DRIVE
MB GATE
MB LIM DR
DWNEXP THR
B5 DWNEXP THR
MB LIM THR
HF CLIP
LESS-MORE
PARENT PRESET
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Advanced Name
Multiband Drive
Multiband Gate Threshold
Multiband Limiter Drive
Downward Expander
B5 Down Exp Delta Thresh
Multiband Limit Threshold
High Frequency Clip Threshold
Less-More Index
Parent Preset
MB Limit Speech Thresh
Maximum Distortion Control
High Frequency Limiter
B1/B2 XOVER
Table 3-7: Multiband Controls
ORBAN MODEL 5500
Range
0 ... 25
Off, –44 ... –15 dB
–4.0 ... +5.0 dB
Off, –18.0 ... 12.0 dB
–18.0 ... +12.0 dB
–3.0 ... +6.0, Off
–16.00 ... 0.0, Off
[read-only]; 1.0 ... 10.0
[read-only]
–3.0 +6.0 dB
0 ... 18 dB
Off, –23.8 ... 0.0 dB
100 Hz, 200 Hz