CONTROLS & CONNECTIONS
10
2.4 Gain
•
Gain
When compressing a signal,
Gain
reduction usually results in an overall reduction of
level. The
Gain
control allows you to restore the loss in level which occurs due to the
amount of compression used. (like readjusting the volume.)
2.5 Bypass & Link
•
Bypass
Activating the
Bypass
effectively removes
all
processing being performed by your ACP-
88 and returns the signal to
unity gain
. You should use
Bypass
often when setting up
your ACP-88 to compare the ‘
before and after
’ results of the signal processing effecting
your audio signal.
Bypass
affects both the
Gate
and the
Compressor
. When
Bypassed
, the
Link
function is interrupted for that channel and essentially breaks the
link in your linking ‘
chain
’.
•
Link
When the
Link
button is engaged (
pushed in
) the LED labeled
LINK
becomes active
indicating this channel has become the
slave
of the channel to its immediate
left
(The
Link LED
is only
active
when the signal is present in the
Linked channel
). All of the
controls for the
Linked
channel become
disabled
and metering occurs by way of the
Gain reduction
meter of the channel to the left (
Exception
: the LED meter of the
Slaved
channel is still useful to indicate the presence or lack of signal). Essentially, the
left
channel is still the
Master
and the channel with the
Link
button pushed
in
is the
Slave
channel in a
stereo linked pair
. If multiple
Link
buttons are pushed
in
, then the
channel farthest to the
left
of the multiple
Linked
channels (without its link button pushed
in) becomes the
Master
for the multiple
Linked
channels. In this case, all metering
should be referred to the
Master
channel’s meter.
*IMPORTANT: When a channel is Linked (link button pushed in), all of it’s controls
are inactive. The Link LED is active. Also, even though the meters on the Linked
channel are still operational
(presence or lack of signal), all metering should be
referred to the Master channel’s meter for the Gain reduction level of the Linked
channels!
