WNTIRadio said:What Optimod do you have after the Compellor and the DBX? I assume an 8100a or is it something newer?
Try running the Compellor around 9 o'clock on the process balance settings, it will let more bass through. You can then run the Optimod between 5-10dB of gain reduction with a faster release time. You don't need to bury the AGC on the Optimod if you let the Compellor do the leveling and the Optimod do the compression/limiting/clipping.
Get rid of the DBX, there's no reason to have it in the chain squashing the daylights out of everything.
Actually it's an 8500FM and it is not MY station that uses that chain. I am trying to emulate a station that uses that chain though.
Would the DBX-160 (or 160a) pump when pushed very hard? I guess I'm trying to figure out what makes everything on that station "flat" and not powerful sounding...Dull is a word used above and I would say that is accurate. Nothing pumps or ducks on that station at all.
Thanks.