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M 18 Digital Mixer User’s Manual
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Master Processor
The M Series Master Processor is the last stage of processing, before the MAIN Graphic Equalizer, and represents a
precious toolset to give a final touch to overall sound. The Master processor is composed of three individual processors
in series: Valve Warmer, Xciter, Maximizer.
These three processors have been developed to
work together or individually, to achieve a warmer,
analog overall sound, but at the same time to make
your sound loud and proud as required from the
contemporary music business. You can bypass the
set of three processors with a single button, to
ease the evaluation of its effect on the overall mix.
The factory presets are, as always, a great starting
point to easily learn how the three processors can
work together and then to go ahead creating your
own settings.
VALVE WARMER
Very easy to use one knob processor, it allows to vary from subtle warmness to extreme saturated sound.
This processors works like a real analog piece of gear: it means that the resulting sound is depending on input level; the
more you feed it with a louder signal, the earlier you get a saturated sound, so be careful with your levels inside the
mixer and use it very slightly if you want to use it only for warming your sound.
XCITER
It allows to sculp sound with two adaptive curves on the low end and high end. The frequency of these curves have been
tailored to fit easily and quickly every kind of mix.
You can easily achieve a more pleasant and dynamic sound by fine-tuning the overall frequency balance (Focus) and
make it more or less evident (Process)-
MAXIMIZER
This is the last processor in the signal flow chain, that allows you to give a final boost to overall sound. This processor is
very transparent and has been designed to be a “set and forget” stage.
With this in mind, the Maximizer is super easy to set with its two knobs:
Boost: sets the amount of the incoming signal to the maximizer (it’s a boost only knob so rotate it anticlockwise
for NO boost)
Out Celing: sets the final level (it’s an attenuator knob, so rotate it full clockwise for NO attenuation)
The Maximizer can be also used “to compact” the overall mix sound, so in this case you can use it boosting and
attenuating at the same time.
Valve
Warmer
Xciter
Maximizer
L-R
mix
To
GEQ
To stereo
RECORD
option