Orban OPTIMOD-FM 8500S Operating Manual Download

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Factory Programming Presets are our “factory recommended settings” for various
program formats or types. The Factory Programming Presets are starting points to
help you get on the air quickly without having to understand anything about ad-
justing the 8500S’s sound. You can edit any of these presets with the

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trol to optimize the trade-off between loudness and distortion according to the
needs of your format. Because it is so easy to fine-tune the sound at the

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level, we believe that many users will quickly want to customize their chosen preset
to complement their market and competitive position after they had time to famil-
iarize themselves with the 8500S’s programming facilities.

Start with one of these presets. Spend some time listening critically to your on-air
sound. Listen to a wide range of program material typical of your format and listen
on several types of radios (not just on your studio monitors). Then, if you wish, cus-
tomize your sound using the information in the Protection Limiter, Two-Band and
Five-Band sections that follow.

Each Orban factory preset has full

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capability. The table below shows the

presets, including the source presets from which they were taken and the nominal

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setting of each preset. Of the Five-Band presets, several appear several

times under different names because we felt that these presets were appropriate for
more than one format; these can be identified by the shared source preset name.

Many of the presets come in several “flavors,” like “dense,” “medium,” and “open.”
These refer to the density produced by the processing. “Open” uses a slow multi-
band release time “Medium” uses a medium-slow release, and “Dense” uses me-
dium-fast. A fast release is only used in the NEWS-TALK and SPORTS presets.

Important!

Factory preset names are

only suggestions

. Feel free to audition differ-

ent presets and to choose the one whose sound you prefer. This preset may have a
very different name than the name of your format. This is OK.

Try using the

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control to trade off loudness against processing artifacts

and side effects. Once you have used

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, save your edited preset as a User

Preset.

Do not be afraid to experiment with presets other than the ones named for your
format if you think these other presets have a more appropriate sound. Also, if you
want to fine-tune the frequency balance of the programming, feel free to enter

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and make small changes to the Bass, Mid EQ, and HF EQ controls.

Unlike Orban’s 8200, you can make changes in EQ (and stereo enhancement) with-
out losing the ability to use

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settings.

Of course,

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is still available for the unedited preset if you want to go back

to it. There is no way you can erase or otherwise damage the Factory Presets. So,
feel free to experiment.

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If the preset has “UL” in its name, it uses the Ultra-Low Latency Five-Band struc-
ture. “UL” presets are not as competitive as other presets and should only be
used if you absolutely need the low delay (for off-air cueing of finicky talent, for
example).