My take on it is that the processing is done in the DSP modulator stage, but
there is no clipping. I see very little increase in average output, even at
heavy settings, and I don't hear the kind of sound that the old Alpha Vomax
or Datong clippers used to give. I think it needs to be more aggressive to
be effective, although there is some subjective loudness increase by using
fast AGC action. But it's not like real clipping. I may take my old Vomax
out of mothballs.
BTW, there is a good audio compressor in the mic preamp. The SSM2166 chip
is the same one the W2IHY EQplus uses in the compressor/downward expander
stage, but I don't think the noise gate function is enabled. You can read
about this powerful little IC at:
http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,2877,SSM2166,00.html
Ron
N6AHA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown@verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Speech Compressors
I would have thought that
this would be done using DSP
It's done in DSP.
Glad to hear that. I wonder if people using external speech processing
in stead of or in addition to the built in DSP TX processing are really
getting better results, or just feel better about it?
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