Rane DC 22 Operator's Manual

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Manual-OPERATORS MANUALQUICK STARTShredded, this document makes excellent packing material.In its present form, it makes interesting and useful reading. Ifyou run out of patience quickly, at least read this part to makesure you don’t exterminate everything within a two mile radiusby doing something wrong.First, be sure the POWER switch is off. Attach one or twochannels of Inputs and Outputs to the respective connectors onthe rear. This device uses low impedance balanced line drivers. Donot connect the XLR “+” or “–” output pins to ground, as this maycause the power supply to shut down. For unbalanced use, leave theunused output pin (“+” or “–”) unterminated. OK, now you canpower up your sound system, volumes down, amp turned on last.With the GATE THRESHOLD turned all the way down to-80 dBu, COMPRESSOR THRESHOLD turned all the wayup to 20 dBu, COMPRESSOR RATIO turned all the waydown to 1, and the OUTPUT LEVEL control in the center at 0dB, you have an expensive patch cord.While sending a signal to the DC 22, adjust the outputlevel of the previous device so the +4 dBu LED lights occasion-ally, but the OL LED does not light. If you are driving the ¼"WEAR PARTS: This product contains no wear parts.DC 22STEREO COMPRESSORINPUTS with a balanced signal (tip-ring-sleeve), set the InputGain switch to +4 dBu (in). When driving this input with anunbalanced signal (tip-sleeve), set this switch to –10 dBv (out).Regardless of the type of Input, you might need to set this switchso the INPUT LEVEL LEDs light correctly.Now increase the COMPRESSOR RATIO to somethinguseful, like 2:1 (with the control set at 2, the Ratio is 2:1; at 5, itis 5:1.) Adjust the COMPRESSOR THRESHOLD to the pointyou want the Compressor to kick in. The GAIN REDUCTIONmeter reads the amount of signal compression.If you want the quiet parts to be even quieter, increase theGATE THRESHOLD so only higher levels make it through theGate.Both Gates and Compressors will activate by the sourcematerial applied to either channel if the LINK switch is on. Thisis the preferred setting for stereo program material. The chan-nel 1 controls set both channels to the same adjustments, as thechannel 2 controls go dormant and the LEDs extinguish. Ifthe LINK switch is off, then both channels are independentlycontrollable.SLAVETHRESHOLDOL+4 dBuMASTERREDUCTIONGAINTHRESHOLD RATIO BYPASSLEVELGATEINPUT COMPRESSORLINKOUTPUTLEVEL6241231THRESHOLDOL+4 dBuREDUCTIONGAINTHRESHOLD RATIO BYPASSLEVELGATEINPUT COMPRESSOR OUTPUTLEVEL POWER6241232 DC 22dBu dBu :1 dB-20-60-80-70-50-40-3001020-40-30-10-20 31.7∞ ∞11.2 1026-61215-15-120dBu dBu :1 dB-20-60-80-70-50-40-3001020-40-30-10-20 31.711.2 1026-61215-15-120DYNAMICCONTROLLER