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FACTORY PRESETS
25 Factory Presets
Omnia.9 contains a good assortment of factory presets created by a handful of folks who are deeply passionate about audio
processing and have extensive experience with the product. “FM” presets lists are common to FM, HD, and Streaming
processing paths since bandwidth structures are similar. This section and preset descriptions apply to FM, HD and Streaming
processing. AM presets are in their own category given the unique challenges of AM broadcasting. Please consult Chapter 21
“AM Processing” for descriptions of AM presets.
Creating a preset takes countless hours of critical listening to a wide variety of music, including hand-picked “problem songs”
that contain passages that are known to be difficult for a particular section of any processor to handle. Each preset has been
created with a particular sonic goal in mind. Some are relatively simple in structure, while others exploit Omnia.9’s unique
processing functions and utilize a few “tricks” to achieve a particular sound.
We have deliberately avoided naming presets by format or genre (with the occasional exception) so you’ll find no “Urban,”
“Open Country,” “Rock,” or “Smooth Jazz” badges here. With conventional naming, many presets that would work quite nicely
on your station will be overlooked simply because no one would ever think of trying something called “Hot Country” if they
were running a Light AC format that needed some extra punch.
Instead, we encourage you to audition each preset, preferably “on the bench” and not on the air at first, to get a feel for each.
Listen for a spectral balance that appeals to you first, and then for texture, without much consideration for loudness. Most of
the presets (minus the ones specifically created for maximum loudness) have plenty of “room to grow” in terms of loudness, so
if you find something you like but it doesn’t seem quite loud enough, don’t summarily dismiss it; instead, try it out and use the
suggestions in the “Getting the Sound You Want” chapter of this manual to up the loudness.
Finally, we are often asked how best to create a custom preset “from scratch”. Since all custom presets are initially based upon a
factory preset, we recommend building off of “Reference Settings” since it is the most neutral-sounding factory preset and one
upon which many of the factory presets themselves were built.
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