FXpansion BFD Eco - Manual (Page 17)

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Inspector display for Hihat channel
Tighten (hihat only)
‘Tightens’ the sound of closed hihats. The control simulates pressing down hard on a hihat clutch,
a process that moves the two hihat surfaces more tightly together.
Note that this parameter is not capable of being MIDI-controlled.
Width (ambience channels only)
Adjusts the width of the ambi ence channels’ stereo field, from mono to fully enhanced stereo.
Distance (ambience channels only)
Adjusts the distance of each set of ambience mic channels from the kit.
Effectively, this function introduces a delay between the ambience channels and the direct mics. It has a similar effect to the ambience as a
‘pre-delay’ control has over the processed signal on an digital algorithmic reverb unit.
Ambience controls (kit-piece channels only)
Flip LR
While the stereo position of kit-pieces in ambience channels cannot be adjusted, due to them being stereo recordings, the Flip LR button makes
it possible to swap the left and right channels of the ambience if you pan a kit-piece to the other side of the stereo field.
OH/Room Amount
These controls adjust the amount of the kit-piece in the OH and Room ambience channels.
Inspector display for OH and Room channels
Aux sends (kit-piece and ambience channels only)
Aux1/Aux2 Send
These controls send variable levels of the channel to the Aux1 and Aux2 channels. Sends are
useful for parallel processing such as artificial reverb effects.
Note that it is also possible to route the entire output of one or more channels to the Aux channels.
Using Sends allows you to vary the amount of each channel’s signal in the Aux channels without
altering the original channels’ levels.
5:3 EQ and FX slots
All mixer channels – kit-piece, ambience, aux and Master channels – feature a hard-wired EQ and 2 FX slots, each of which can host one of the
15 internal FX devices.
EQ
Each channel has a 4-band EQ hard-wired into it, prior to the 2 FX slots in the signal path. The
top section of the EQ device features the same common controls as the FX slots except for an FX
picker. See below for more details of these controls. Note that additional EQ devices can be loaded
into FX slots if required.
Each of the 4 EQ bands features a power button (
LO, LM, HM and HI). Note that bands are
activated automatically when their settings are adjusted.
The Low (LO) and High (HI) bands are switchable from ‘shelf’ to ‘bell’ mode by enabling the
Bell
button. The Low Mid (LM) and High Mid (HM) parametric bands include a Q control. All bands
feature Frequency and Gain controls.
The hard-wired EQ features all the extra controls found in the FX slots (see below), with the
exception of an FX picker.
Frequency Display control
You can change EQ curves by clicking and dragging the graphical display in the EQ interface.
To edit a band in this way, move the mouse cursor over the display. The display is divided into 4
zones for each band from LO to HI, from left to right. Each zone is highlighted in a different colour,
corresponding to the colour of the bands’ controls.
• With a band highlighted, click and drag up/down to adjust the band’s gain, and left/right to adjust its frequency.
• For the two Mid bands, clicking and dragging up/down while holding down the ALT key allows you to adjust the band’s Q.
Effect
picker
Input
meter
Power
Tools
FX slots
This section describes the common controls of the FX slots. See chapter 10
for more details of each FX device.
Power
Turns the device on or off. With the button disabled, the effect is by passed and
inactive (its controls cannot be adjusted). These buttons are duplicated on the
mixer section, meaning that you can power on/off individual FX without using
the Channel page. See section 4:3 for more details.
You can also toggle FX power on all channels using the global
FX Power
button (see chapter 7).
Input meter
Represents the level of the input signal. It is useful for ensuring that the FX
device is receiving a signal, and that the input is not clipping.