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Orban PC1100 v2

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gtrmediasmix

Hi everybody !

Has anybody tested the v2 software for the Orban PC1100 ?
Could you tell me if you can really get a better sound than with the 6200s or with the v1 software ?

Thank you very much,
Mike
 
I spent about a week with it and am now back to V1.

For some reason, and I have been over and over the literature and spent about 20-24 hours with it over that week, I cannot solve a headroom problem between the processing blocks and went back to what I have with the previous version.

I was surprised to see that the AGC went into full gain reduction when I first loaded the new version. I emailed Orban tech and they said this was normal ??? I emailed them again and never got a replay. So I continued to pry myself.

I was using an onboard player (OTS Juke) with the levels set to +4 on the soundcard. When I backed off the drive to the AGC, I had to increase drive into the multiband compressors to get anything out of them. This is where it really started to sound funky and distorted and I wasn't doing alot of gain reduction in the multiband compressors. I thought maybe it was something upstream... the limiter etc... no. For some reason, I cannot drive the multiband compressor like I could with the previous version, unless I wanted distortion. I'm only looking for maybe 10db out of them... couldn't even get that where I wanted it. In the old version, I could drive the compressors to more than half scale (almost full scale if I really wanted to get aggressive) without any clipping. It was mashed but not distorted in the traditional sense. I couldn't do that in the new version.

Others have had luck with it, since I use the soundcard for the processor as well as other things, I've decided not to tempt fate and went back with V1.0.
 
wgliradio said:
I spent about a week with it and am now back to V1.

For some reason, and I have been over and over the literature and spent about 20-24 hours with it over that week, I cannot solve a headroom problem between the processing blocks and went back to what I have with the previous version.

I was surprised to see that the AGC went into full gain reduction when I first loaded the new version. I emailed Orban tech and they said this was normal ??? I emailed them again and never got a replay. So I continued to pry myself.

I was using an onboard player (OTS Juke) with the levels set to +4 on the soundcard. When I backed off the drive to the AGC, I had to increase drive into the multiband compressors to get anything out of them. This is where it really started to sound funky and distorted and I wasn't doing alot of gain reduction in the multiband compressors. I thought maybe it was something upstream... the limiter etc... no. For some reason, I cannot drive the multiband compressor like I could with the previous version, unless I wanted distortion. I'm only looking for maybe 10db out of them... couldn't even get that where I wanted it. In the old version, I could drive the compressors to more than half scale (almost full scale if I really wanted to get aggressive) without any clipping. It was mashed but not distorted in the traditional sense. I couldn't do that in the new version.

Others have had luck with it, since I use the soundcard for the processor as well as other things, I've decided not to tempt fate and went back with V1.0.
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Please email me (mangled address: rorban ... at ..... orban . c o m) with your concerns.

We changed the headroom in the Prcoessor Mixer so that you can achieve a full 25 dB of AGC gain reduction before the output of the Processor Mixer clips. This means that you should set the mixer gain for your active input so that the Processor Mixer's output meter indicates about anywhere from -20 to -15 dBfs. In other words, set the mixer fader to achieve the desired amount of AGC GR and don't worry that the meter on the Processor Mixer seem to read low.

I am unaware of any other headroom issues in V2, and the one I described in the paragraph above is not an "issue" -- it just requires understanding that the mixer must have enough output headroom to allow the AGC to be used throughout its gain reduciton range.
 
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