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1 "... where angels fear to tread."

OK. It's 6.30pm, and the unit has just been delivered, and the Club opens tonight! Rather

than read the whole manual you can take this short-cut route, but be it on your own head.

Connect the unit into the signal path directly after the system mixing desk or DJ console,

and just before any amplifiers or cross-over.

If your system runs balanced then used balanced XLR leads, with the standard

configuration of:

Pin 2 hot (positive phase); Pin 3 cold (negative phase); Pin 1 ground (screen).

If you are configured 'unbalanced' then we suggest that for all XLR plugs and sockets

connected into the CX335 each Pin 3 should be shorted to Pin 1. Do this, even if you are

in a hurry.

If you are running a mono system you will have to connect input signal to both channels

using some form of 'Y' lead to be able to make any sense of the front panel meter scales

and control graticules.

We have carefully optimised the front panel by removing most of the controls and made

the circuitry 'Programme Dependant'. This wonderful phrase denotes some clever

electronics which are described later in the manual. To simplify setting up the front panel

controls the possible permutations of switches and controls can be grouped into four

'categories', each 'category' having different audio results. The settings for the front panel

can be grouped into the four following 'categories':

Soft Knee, Fast Time Constants - Ultra transparent Control of Sound Pressure Level

(SPL) and speaker protection.

Hard Knee, Fast Time Constants - Transparent and precise control of signal level and

speaker protection.

Soft Knee, Slow Time Constants - Very transparent control of SPL with more peaks

allowed through unprocessed.

Hard Knee, Slow Time Constants - The least transparent mode of operation to reduce

high level signals but with more peaks passed unprocessed.

1.01 Soft Knee, Fast Time Constants

This is the recommended mode of operation, yielding the most musical results with the

least perceptible manipulation of the audio signal!

Do not depress the Hard or Slow switches. Set the Threshold to somewhere between

10dB and 15dB LOWER than your average input level and set the Ratio control

somewhere between 5:1 and 10:1, if you require compression of the audio signal, but

20:1 or higher if you require compression and limiting.

SLOW

HARD THRESHOLD

RATIO

PEAK

GAIN

BYPASS

RELEASE

KNEE

0dB

+10

-10

-15

-20

1.2

1.5

-6

-4

-2

12 12

ROTATE UNTIL -15 TO -10dB

BELOW SIGNAL INPUT

MAKE EQUAL TO

BYPASS LEVEL

ROTATE UNTIL LED FLASHES

AT DESIRED PEAK OUTPUT

LIMITING

COMPRESSING

BELOW 10:1 ABOVE 20:1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 21 22

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