Behringer MDX2200 user manual Foreword

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COMPOSER PRO MDX2200

FOREWORD

Dear Customer,

Welcome to the team of COMPOSER PRO users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in BEHRINGER products by purchasing this unit.

It is one of my most pleasant tasks to write this letter to you, because it is the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to reach a very ambitious goal: making an outstanding device better still. The COMPOSER has for quite a long time been a standard tool used by numerous studios and PA rental companies. The task to improve one of our best-selling products certainly meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. It also meant a lot of work and night shifts to accomplish this goal. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great feeling it is when everybody who participated in such a project can be proud of what we’ve achieved.

It is our philosophy to share our joy with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER family. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve greatly contributed to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality (manufactured under ISO9000 certified management system) as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely favorable price. All of this will enable you to fully unfold your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.

We are often asked how we can make it to produce such high-grade devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers means large sales volumes enabling us to get better conditions of purchase for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit back to you? Because we know that your success is our success, too!

I would like to thank all people whose help on “Project COMPOSER PRO” has made it all possible. Everybody has made very personal contributions, starting from the designers of the unit via the many staff members in my company to you, the user of BEHRINGER products.

My friends, it’s been worth the trouble!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

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Contents Composer PRO Safety Instructions Foreword Composer PRO Table of Contents Installation IRC Interactive Ratio Control expander IntroductionAdvanced Behringer technology IKA Interactive Knee Adaption compressorFailsafe relays Before you beginDesign concept High quality components and designControl Elements Expander/gate sectionTransformer balanced outputs optional Control elements of the compressor section Compressor sectionControl elements of the peak limiter section Peak limiter sectionTechnical Background Rear panel control elements of the Composer PRONoise as a physical phenomenon Dynamic range capabilities of various devices What are audio dynamics?Expanders/noise-gates Compressors/limitersCompression/levelling/limiting/clipping ApplicationsClipping IRC curve characteristic of the ExpanderControlling leakage in the studio Initial settings for the expander/gate sectionCreative use of the expander/gate section Reducing leakage in stage micsReducing feedback in stage mics Noise reduction on effects pathsTab .2 Initial settings for the compressor section Initial settings for the compressor sectionMuffling effect of a compressor Composer PRO as a sound effects unitSpecial Applications Initial settings for the peak limiter sectionComposer PRO as a protective device Composer PRO in digital recording and samplingComposer PRO in mastering Protection of a system with an active crossover What is volume?Composer PRO in broadcast Protection of a system with a passive crossoverComposer PRO as a de-esser Using an equalizer in the side chain pathExternal Side Chain Applications Side chain functionEmphasizing musical instruments during recording Frequency-selective filtering of unwanted signalsAnticipated compression Suppressing instruments during recordingRack mounting InstallationVoice-over compression ducking Triggering additional sounds from a rhythm trackBalanced use of stereo 1/4 jack plugs Selecting the operating levelAudio Input SpecificationsOptions § 1 Warranty CARD/ONLINE Registration Warranty
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