Manley laboratories stereo limcom owners manual

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MANLEY VARIABLE MU LIMITER COMPRESSOR

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COMPRESS MODE. THRESHOLD AT 12:00.
INPUT (OUTPUT ADJUSTED FOR VARIOUS UNITY SETTINGS

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MAXI MUM

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MINIMUM

1 1 THEN 21 THEN 3.1 REFERENCE LINE

THESE ARE TYPICAL SETTINGS AND G R CURVES
NOTICE THE SMOOTHNESS AT THE ONSET OF GAIN
REDUCTION ESPECIALLY AT "DRASTIC" SETTINGS

WITH ABOUT 2 dB OF GR THE RATIO IS APPROX 1 51

WITH ABOUT 5 dB THE RATIO BECOMES 21
WITH ABOUT 10dB THE RATIO BECOMES 5.1

THESE CURVES SHOW MORE EXTREME SETTINGS'

NOTICE WHEN DRIVEN VERY HARD THE COMPRESS RATIO
BECOMES 51 OR NEAR SO CALLED LIMITING,

ALL CURVES SHOW A SOFT ROUND KNEE STARTING

WITH LOW RATIOS IN TVPICAL SETTINGS AND INCREASING
ONLV WHEN GAIN REDUCTION PASSES 10 dB.

1 2,1 THEN 3,1 THEN 9.1 REFERENCE LINE

THRESHOLD

MAXIMUM
AS THE THRESHOLD IS LOWERED THI
KNEE BECOMES VERV SOFT (ROUND,
SO THAT THE UNIT BEHAVES MORE

12 LIKE A COMPRESSOR AND SLOWLV
REACHES LIMITING

MINIMUM

31 THEN 91 REFERENCE LINE

These relevance lTnes are To help visuaITze m compaTe Ihe Tulios wiIh
conventional comp-ITmIters Because our GR cuwes can be verymundedm some
senings, TT becomes dilficull (a spediylhe min amurmely The lines are
slmpTTTTed s1ngM Tme suproXTm enons oT some of ma wrvas. TMthouT Them. yDu
might need To count smarss Io estTmals ratios. Many ITmTlers have GR curves
that can be drawn wilh a rule! mm This one.