Crane Song TRAKKER - Manual (Page 8)

LINK SWITCH
A unique feature of TRAKKER is the ability to use one unit as a master/controller with up to 7
slave units. The rules for operating TRAKKER in link are as follows:
1) Only one master unit
2) If any unit is turned off the link goes away.
Allowing Link Turning the link switch "on" will light the red indicator next to the switch when link
is allowed. Switching the link "on" turns that unit into the master/controller unit. The master unit
now controls all functions of all units except gain control. The gain controls operate indepen-
dently regardless of the link being on or off.
Disallowing Link The link system allows only one master/controller device. The link will be
disallowed if; 1) multiple link switches are on, or 2)power to any TRAKKER in the link is turned off
or fails.
CHARACTER SWITCH
The character switch allows the selection of 16 different sound types; in essence giving the user
the ability to combine the different sections of the amplifiers. The four basic compressor - limiter
types are: optical, air-optical, soft knee and hard knee. Each of these basic types has four
different amplifier/modulation styles to choose from.
The optical setting has a sound like many of the classic optical compressors and their modern
counter parts. The optical settings are program dependent. This means that the more time that
signal is present the longer the release time becomes. Increasing the release time on the com-
pressor will increase the effect.
The Air-optical setting is similar to the optical setting, but with one difference. This difference is a
high frequency effect also found in certain vintage tube compressors. The high frequency effect
is the result of a circuit that was used to achieve flat frequency response in the old gear. In
TRAKKER this high frequency compensation is used to the advantage of the sound. The result
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CHARACTER SWITCH SETTINGS
denotes soft knee settings
Vintage
Clean- VCA
Vintage-VCA
Clean-VCA
Vintage-VCA
Clean-VCA
Vintage
Clean
Vintage-VCA
Clean-VCA
Vintage
Clean
Vintage-VCA