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4) I can't make the compression gentle enough!
It takes practice. The setting of the Attack control close to fastest is quite critical, as is the
compression control.
WHAT IS AN ENHANCER?
An enhancer (or exciter) adds a particular type of sparkle to sounds, particularly voices.
It appears to create brightness from sounds that were 'flat'.
The enhancer in the JOEMEEK Tube Channel (in common with the other JOEMEEK
enhancers) works by picking off the higher frequency part of the sound, compressing
and dynamically altering it, filtering off the original sound and remixing the resulting
harmonics back with the signal.
It adds high frequency sparkle, making singing voices sound more present and exciting
without some of the other hissy effects you get from simply turning up the HF equaliser.
It is the supreme 'suck-it-and-see' device. Used properly it can create beautiful sounds.
Overused it can be horrible.
USING THE ENHANCER.
Once a signal is going through the Tube Channel, press the 'ENHANCE' push-button
(which changes the 'en' LED from green to red), turn up the 'DRIVE' control until the
Enhance LED just starts to change colour or brighten on peak sounds.
Turn up the ENHANCE control until the sharpening of the sound is obvious, then adjust
the 'Q' control and the 'DRIVE' control to get the required effect.
Like the Compress control, the ENHANCE control just adds the enhancement so if it is
turned to minimum there is no effect.
Once the effect is audible, experiment with the three controls to get the desired sound,
the controls are very much interdependent and musically related.
'DRIVE' affects the depth and 'tone' of the enhancement.
RESONANCE or 'Q' affects the length of the high frequency harmonic after the syllable
that created it.
CAUTION. If in any doubt at all, leave enhancement till the mixdown; its easy to put on
but impossible to take off!
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