Introduction, Main features, I/o page / head room – TC Electronic MD3 TDM User Manual

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Introduction

TC Electronic is proud to introduce the MD3 Stereo package for Pro Tools. This pack-
age includes both our MD3 Multi-Band Dynamics and BrickWall Limiter algorithms,
the finest stereo mastering tools from our award winning System 6000.

MAIN FEATURES

• Four band Parametric EQ (Dual Mono capability)
• Normalizer
• Three band Exp/Comp/Lim
• MS Encode/Decode
• Sample accurate BrickWall Limiter

MD3

The MD3 plug-in features both Dual Mono and Stereo dynamics processing in three
frequency bands. It's pristine signal-path uses 48 bit processing.

Make-up gain can be applied automatically or manually, so the algorithm can be set-
up to do everything from strictly limiting to level maximization.

By offering a true side-chain split structure, MD3 is also capable of demanding mono
material compression/limiting on two separate channels , not found in other multi-
band dynamics processors.

Used for mastering, MD3 can be regarded as a high-end mastering tool. M and S com-
ponents of a stereo signal can be processed separately and provide even more control
making full use of the Spectral Stereo Enhancer.

I/O PAGE / HEAD ROOM

In case you are working with very hot signal levels in your audio application, you might
experience clipping of the input of the MD3 or BrickWall limiter algorithm.
In that case, we recommend that you lower the output level of the previous plug-in ,
or turn down your input channel or send level.

If this does not help, you can use the build-in headroom parameter on the plug-in I/O
page, to get an additional head room. Please be aware that this results in a loss of bit
resolution.

Setting the Head Room parameter to a value different from 0 dB will change two
gains: the native input gain is set to reduce the signal level,
while the gain at the input to the 48 bit algorithm is set to make up that reduction.
The advantage of this is that any of the algorithm parameters (especially thresholds)
will affect the signal in the same way, independent of the headroom setting.

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