Omnia Omnia.9 - Multiband S Etup

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 TheMaximumAttenuationcontroldetermineshowmuchtheStereoEnhancercanreduce
L/RseparationinanefforttoachievetheTargetWidthinprogrammaterialthatalreadyhas
awidestereoimage.Therangeisbetween0and18dB.
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 The Attack speed and Release speed controls work in the same manner as their
counterpartsintheothersectionsoftheOmnia.9.
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 TheTargetWidth(coupled),MaximumGain(coupled),MaximumAttenuation(coupled),
Attack (coupled) and Release (coupled) controls allow you to adjust all the bands
simultaneouslybyanequalamountintheircorrespondingsections.
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MultibandSetupMenu
TheMultibandSetupmenuprovidescontroloverthenumberofprocessingbandsemployedaswell
asthemaximumgain,progressiverelease,gatethreshold,freezethreshold,andgatedelaycontrols.
Also found here are the enable buttons for gain reduction override and controls for the gain
reductionratio.
 TheBandsliderdeterminesthenumberofbandsinthemultibandprocessingsectionand
rangesfrom2to7.
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 The Maximum Gain, Ratio, Gate Threshold, and Freeze Threshold controls work in the
samemannerastheircounterpartsinothersectionsoftheOmnia.9.
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 The Gate Delay control determines how long the Gate Threshold and Freeze Threshold
controlswaitbeforetheybeginworking.Therangeofthiscontrolisbetween0and255ms.
Setting the control to “0” means that as soon as audio falls below the threshold as
determinedbythesettingsoftheGateandFreezecontrols,itimmediatelyslowsorstops,
respectively.Highersettingsmeanitwilltakelongerforthereleaseoftheaudiotoslowor
stop.(Note:SettingtheGateDelaymuchlowerthanthedefaultsettingof79mswillcause
the gate to take effect during the brief pauses in dry speech, resulting in a much lower
volumelevelfromanannouncermic,forinstance,ascomparedtomusic.Usedcreatively,
thisisactuallyaveryusefultoolforcontrollingannouncer/musiclevelbalance).
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