TC Electronic SYSTEM 6000 MKII Algorithm Manual - Md-3

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MD-3

Compressor

Compressor Page

Pressing 

Threshold, Gain, Ratio, Attack

 and 

Release

keys will immediately assign Lo, Mid, Hi and Master values 

for these parameters to Faders 1-4. Press the 

L/R

 key to 

see all parameters at the same time. On the L/R page any 

parameter can be assigned to Fader 6 by pressing the 

individual parameter values.

Threshold

Range: -25dB to 20dB (in 0.5dB steps)

Relates to the Ref.Level setting.

General explanation - when the Input signal exceeds the 

Threshold value the Compressor starts to reduce the 

dynamic content of the signal according to the set Ratio.

Gain

Range: Off, -18dB to 12dB in 0.5dB steps.

Manual Makeup-gain for each compression band.

Where the Auto Gain control in the Main page  

compensates for the total gain reduction caused 

by the Compressor, the Gain controls in the 

Compressor pages are used as additional 

gain controls on the individual bands.

Ratio

Range: Off to Infinity

Specifies the Ratio of the performed compression.

Example: With a Ratio setting of 2:1 the compressor will 

reduce every 2dB above the Threshold point to only 1dB.

Attack

Range: 0.3 to 100ms

The Attack time is the time the Compressor uses to reach 

the gain reduction specified by the Ratio parameter. 

Example: If the Input signal increases by 4dB above the 

set Threshold with a Ratio set to 2:1 and the Attack time 

set to 20ms, the Compressor will use 20ms to reach a Gain 

reduction of 2dB.

Release

Range: 20ms to 7s

The fallback time. The time it takes for the Compressor to 

release the attenuation of the signal.

Meter  Zoom

Press to zoom on the range of the Gain Reduction meters.

L/R

Press to view all algorithm parameters at the same time. 

From the L/R page any parameter can be assigned to 

Fader 6 simply by pressing the parameter value.