Klark Teknik DN540 specifications Introduction, Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction

Thank you for purchasing a Klark Teknik DN540 Creative Quad Compressor. The DN540 is a user-friendly, high-performance, four-channel (quad) analogue compressor designed for live sound reinforcement primarily on tour, in theatres and at corporate events, with applications in both front-of-house and monitoring situations. Other possible areas for use include broadcasting, the recording studio and installation.

The DN540 provides a wide variety of easy-to-use controls for the precise manipulation of compression parameters. These enable you to, for example, alter the character of an instrument that is being processed or make sounds seemingly louder, but without distortion. Other features include channel linking for stereo and multiple channel operation, and a presence control for protecting vocals.

Your DN540 was conceived by Klark Teknik to offer audio professionals high-performance audio equipment, designed to provide no-compromise sonic quality with a feature set that offers all essential facilities and functions. It represents the very best of British design and engineering combined with contemporary, efficient manufacturing methods, and will give you many years of reliable service.

All this is backed up, of course, by the standard Klark Teknik three year warranty.

Please take the time to complete and return the registration card or fill in the Warranty Registration Form online by visiting our website at www.klarkteknik.com and, to obtain the best results with a minimum of effort, also read this operator manual.

Finally, enjoy your Klark Teknik DN540!

Overview

The DN540 consists of four linkable channels of compression that provide full control of all essential audio-compression parameters. All this is housed in a compact 1U high rack-mount unit.

Front panel

Rear panel

The main compressor controls consist of continuously adjustable threshold, ratio and make up gain, and a bypass switch and a hard knee switch. Used in auto mode, these controls are all that are required to set up simple transparent RMS compression suited to normal (not difficult) signals.

The envelope time constant controls (attack and release) are activated by disabling auto mode and operating the DN540 in manual mode. The DN540 can then be used for creative compression effects using a semi-linear attack shape.

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