User`s manual

Controls: Preserve Source

Preserve Source

The Preserve Source

controls allows you to

split your audio into its

bass and treble ranges

and process each range

separately. This lets you

create hybrid mics that combine the bass characteristics of one mic

and the treble characteristics of another. One of the two mics will be

your actual source mic and the other can be selected from any of

the available models.

Say, for example, that you have a mic whose bass response is great

for a particular track, but whose treble response just doesn’t sound

right. With this feature you can preserve the bass response of your

source mic while replacing its treble characteristics with that of any

of the modeled mics.

Here’s how it works:

1) Make all the appropriate settings in the Source Mic section. (Do

not select Bypass unless you are going for some special effect, as

it will defeat the normal function of this feature.)

2) Choose the other mic for your hybrid and make all the appropri-

ate settings in the Modeled Mic section. (Again, do not select

Bypass unless you are going for some special effect.)

3) In the Preserve Source section, click on either the Bass or Treble

button (its associated “LED” will light) depending on whether

you want to preserve the bass or treble characteristics of your

source mic.

There are four possible states of the two Preserve Source buttons.

Here’s what each does ( o = LED lit):

1) Preserve Source: Bass O Treble O

With neither button pressed, frequency splitting does not take place

and the Microphone Modeler operates in its normal manner accord-

ing to the settings in the Source and Modeled Mic sections.

2) Preserve Source: Bass o Treble O

With the Bass button pressed, the source mic’s bass characteristics

are allowed through unchanged while the treble characteristics are

neutralized. Then, at the model end, only the model’s treble character-

istics are applied to the signal. The net effect is that you get the source

mic’s bass characteristics and the modeled mic’s treble characteristics.