Overview
Digital Audio Processor with Stereo Encoder
Orban’s Optimod-FM 2200 has become renowned in the broadcast industry for delivering that big Optimod sound at a slimmed-down price. The new Optimod-FM 2300 builds on the 2200’s sound, adding stereo enhancement, more powerful equalization, anti-aliased clipping, composite limiting, and full remote control facilities. AES/EBU digital input and output is now standard, as is clock-based automation. Switching between “Two-Band Normal” and “Two-Band Purist” processing is now gap-free.
With the 2300, your signature sound is just a preset away. An easy, one-knob Less/More adjustment allows you to customize any factory preset, trading cleanliness against processing artifacts according to the requirements of your market and competitive environment. Full Control gives you the versatility to customize your audio further.
This versatility makes the 2300 work well with any format. The 2300’s optimized technology ensures unusually high average modulation and coverage for a given level of subjective quality.
The compact 1U form factor makes the 2300 at home in any rack, and its solid, competitive sound makes it an ideal choice for medium and small market stations, non-commercial and educational stations, and any other broadcasters whose aspirations exceed their budgets.
The 2300 is also the ideal choice for network broadcasters who process with Orban’s flagship Optimod-FM 8500 at the network origination point and who need a processor at every transmitter to eliminate STL overshoots or to process local insertions. The 2300’s superb stereo encoder and composite limiter help deliver a transmitted signal that’s always immaculately clean and perfectly peak limited, with full protection of subcarriers and RDS/RBDS regardless of the amount of composite limiting.
The built-in ITU 412 multiplex power controller means that the 2300’s output meets even the most stringent European government regulations. In addition, strict 16 kHz band limiting ensures that the peak-limited left and right outputs can pass through 32 kHz uncompressed digital STLs without added overshoot—there is no need to use STLs having 44.1 or 48 kHz sample rates.
Like its predecessor, the 2300 is remote controllable via eight programmable GPI ports. However, unlike its processor, the 2300 is equipped for remote control via RS232 serial or Ethernet ports, and comes with a full-featured remote control application that runs on Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.
If you’re concerned about latency because you need to feed live talent headphones off air, you’ll be pleased to know that the 2300’s processing has only about 5 ms delay, which will keep talent happy.