Specifications

Setting Up The Processing

Great care is needed in setting the drive control. This control needs to be adjusted carefully and only you can

make the decision on the balance between loudness and quality. As you increase the drive you will obviously

obtain more loudness but at the expense of distortion and "busy" sound. There is a fine line between artistic

distortion and distortion that your listeners will find uncomfortable to listen to, especially for extended periods of

time. We also suggest taking into account that generally perceptual codecs don't like aggressively processed

audio, leading to increased coding artifacts and codec overshoots.

Another control that affects coding artifacts is the lowpass filter, which removes high frequency energy from

the audio - area that codecs are most sensitive to. As a general rule the filter should be set at or below half

smapling freqeuncy of the following codec. In any case, you should experiment with it as different codecs will

respond differently to high-end energy.

Auditioning individual stages of the DSPXmini-HD processing

When setting up the DSPXmini-HD it is sometimes useful to hear the effects of the adjustments on that particu-

lar processing stage. By setting the other processing blocks up in a certain way you can make it easier to hear

the effects of the one you are adjusting.

For example, to listen to just the action of the multi-band limiters bypass the AGC stage and back down the

multi-band and final limiter drive. To hear just the clippers do the same back the drive down into the limiters to -

6dB. You can then up the drive into the clippers with the clipper drive controls and mixer controls to here just the

clippers working.