[TenTec] Orion Speech Compressors

[Ron Castro]

My take on it is that the processing is done in the DSP modulator stage, but 
there is no clipping.  I see very little increase in average output, even at 
heavy settings, and I don't hear the kind of sound that the old Alpha Vomax 
or Datong clippers used to give.  I think it needs to be more aggressive to 
be effective, although there is some subjective loudness increase by using 
fast AGC action.  But it's not like real clipping.  I may take my old Vomax 
out of mothballs.

BTW, there is a good audio compressor in the mic preamp.  The SSM2166 chip 
is the same one the W2IHY EQplus uses in the compressor/downward expander 
stage, but I don't think the noise gate function is enabled.  You can read 
about this powerful little IC at:

http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,2877,SSM2166,00.html


Ron
N6AHA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Brown" <ken.d.brown at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Speech Compressors


>
>>>  I would have thought that
>>> this would be done using DSP
>>>
>>   It's done in DSP.
>>
> Glad to hear that. I wonder if people using external speech processing
> in stead of or in addition to the built in DSP TX processing are really
> getting better results, or just feel better about it?
>
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