[BC] Achieving good S/N

[Mark Durenberger]

The Level Devil was a real piece of work.  It was an expander-compressor, 
and when a nominal signal level was present, it refrained from doing damage 
in the pumping mode...but at that level it had a wonderful trait of suddenly 
going into 10 db of expansion...full out...not proportional to signal.

Mark Durenberger


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Orban" <rorban at earthlink.net>


> At 05:45 PM 12/26/2005, you wrote:
>>From: "Steve" <shnewman at alaweb.com>

>>It wasn't the "Level Devil" was it? Talk about pounding the audio within 
>>an
>>inch of its life! And the pumping! Gates sold a quite a few of those if
>>memory serves me.
>
> Now that I've had a little more reminiscing time, I think it was called 
> the "Top Level." Being a pre-emphasized clipper, it was intended for FM 
> only.
>
> Bob Orban
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