Hey guys,
I just took delivery of a DBX 160X that I won on ebay and am giving it a test to make sure everything's ok, but it seems to be behaving a bit strangely.
I'm currently sending a vocal track out to it using my Saffire Pro 14 (using unbalanced cables as it's all I have handy right now)
According to the input meter on the DBX it's sitting at about -6 to 0dB.
I set the ratio to infinity:1 (limiting) and the threshold to -40dB and i'm getting no gain reduction. The only way I can get any GR is to set the output gain to +20dB, when doing this I'm still only getting around 6dB gain reduction in overeasy mode, without overeasy I can get the odd flicker on 1dB of GR.
This is obviously a bit confusing as I assumed the Output Gain would only effect the signal AFTER the compression. So I don't understand why it's effecting the gain reduction in the compressor section?
Do I have a defective unit? Does it need calibrated? If so how can I go about doing that?
Please help me out guys, any advice you can give would be hugely appreciated.
I just took delivery of a DBX 160X that I won on ebay and am giving it a test to make sure everything's ok, but it seems to be behaving a bit strangely.
I'm currently sending a vocal track out to it using my Saffire Pro 14 (using unbalanced cables as it's all I have handy right now)
According to the input meter on the DBX it's sitting at about -6 to 0dB.
I set the ratio to infinity:1 (limiting) and the threshold to -40dB and i'm getting no gain reduction. The only way I can get any GR is to set the output gain to +20dB, when doing this I'm still only getting around 6dB gain reduction in overeasy mode, without overeasy I can get the odd flicker on 1dB of GR.
This is obviously a bit confusing as I assumed the Output Gain would only effect the signal AFTER the compression. So I don't understand why it's effecting the gain reduction in the compressor section?
Do I have a defective unit? Does it need calibrated? If so how can I go about doing that?
Please help me out guys, any advice you can give would be hugely appreciated.