Full Modify - Orban OPTIMOD 6300 Operating Manual

OPTIMOD 6300 DIGITAL
optimized by Orban's audio processing experts on the basis of years of experience
designing audio processing and upon hundred of hours of listening tests.
The L -M control has a different effect in the "radio" presets than it does in
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the "sound-for-picture" presets. In the "radio" presets, the air sound will become
louder as you go from less to more, but (as with any processor) processing artifacts
will increase. In the "sound-for-picture" presets (except for those few based on "ra-
dio" presets), the L
control provided by the processing. As you go from less to more, the loudness of
loud sounds will stay about the same but the loudness of quieter sounds will in-
crease. Because of the 6300's sophisticated gating circuits, very quiet material like
background sounds, quiet underscoring, hiss, and hum will not be pumped up.
Please note that, in the "radio" presets, the highest L
designed to cause unpleasant distortion and processing artifacts! This helps assure
you that you have chosen the optimum setting of the L
turning the control up to this point will cause the sound quality to become obviously
unacceptable.
You need not (in fact, cannot) create a sound entirely from scratch. All User Presets
are created by modifying Factory Presets, or by further modifying Factory Presets
that have been previously modified with a L
the L control to achieve a sound as close as possible to your desired sound
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before you make further modifications at the Advanced Modify level. This is because
the L control gets you close to an optimum trade-off between loudness
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and artifacts, so any changes you make are likely to be smaller and to require reset-
ting fewer controls.
In the 6300, L
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and clipping). Unlike some of Orban's older digital processors, the 6300's equaliza-
tion and stereo enhancement are decoupled from L
change EQ or stereo enhancement and not lose the ability to use L
you create a user preset, the 6300 will automatically save your EQ and stereo en-
hancement settings along with your L
preset, you will still be able to edit your L

Full Modify

Full Modify is the most detailed control level available from the 6300's front panel. It
allows you to adjust the dynamics section at approximately the level of "full con-
trol" available in Orban's 6200 processor. Because of improvements in the 6300's sig-
nal processing by comparison to the 6200, these controls are not extremely danger-
ous (although you can still get into trouble if you try hard enough). Most people will
never have any reason to go beyond Full Modify.
Note: Full Modify does not provide L
once you have edited a preset's dynamics parameters in Full Modify,
L -M
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grayed-out if you access its screen. As noted above, we recommend using
the Basic Modify L
-M control sets the average amount of dynamic range
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affects only the dynamics processing (compression, limiting,
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control is no longer available in Basic Modify and will be
-M control to achieve a sound as close as possi-
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adjustment. It is wise to set
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-M setting. When you recall the user
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-M setting if you wish.
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control. Furthermore,
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setting is purposely
-M control, because
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. You can therefore
-M . When
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