V6 User Manual 1.00.book - Studio General

handle and dragging with the mouse. Handles of bands which are not selected are displayed as small graysquares. Grabbing and drag a handle selects the band.Big Graph floating WindowThe frequency response display uses two separate gain scales. The left hand, blue scale shows the scale used forindividual bands. The right hand, gray scale shows the scale for the overall EQ curve. Both scales automaticallyadapt their range according to the settings of the curves they apply to. The range of the left and the right scale mybe different. The ranges for the individual bands can be either +/- 6 dB, +/- 12 dB or +/- 24 dB, but the scale for theoverall curve may go up to +/- 72 dB.The upper area of the Big Graph Window provides an On/Off switch and buttons to select and indicate the characteristic(High-Pass, Low Shelf, Peak, High Shelf or Low-Pass) for the selected EQ band together with numeric displaysof Gain, Frequency and Bandwidth.Frequency and Bandwidth setting.Shortcuts• Double click on a handle to reset the gain of this band to unity.• The Tab key switches between EQ bands.• Clicking and dragging a handle with the right mouse button alters the Q (bandwidth) of this band.• Hold the Ctrl key while dragging with the left mouse button to lock the gain parameter and only changethe frequency.• Hold the Shift key while dragging with the left mouse button to lock the frequency parameter and onlychange the gain.Bus ToolsBus Tools are very similar to Strip Tools but are specifically designed to be inserted into buses rather than channels.Bus Tools combine the most frequently used ‘mastering’ processing blocks you find on the output buses of amixing console in a single plug-in, including an advanced limiter. Like Strip Tools multiple instances of the BusTools plug-in are displayed in one large window. The number of instances displayed is user selectable.IMPORTANT! Pre-Anticipation (PA) and Delay Compensation (DC)Delay compensation adds a delay determined by the Pre-Anticipation delay setting to all channels passingthrough a Bus Tools plug-in NOT selected for processing.Strip and Bus Tools : Bus Tools 15 - 283