Need Opinions on Rack Mount Setup Order

[Honk Productions]

Hey Everyone,

I would like some opinions on the order of rack mount
processing devices I have for home audio.

I currently have the following:

* Alesis 3630 Compressor/Dynamics Processor/Limiter/Gate

* Behringer Ultragraph Pro 3102 EQ

* Aphex 204c Aural Exciter with Big Bottom

What I want to acheive is a well balanced, dynamics processed
sound without it sounding heavily compressed or whatever else.

It sounds pretty good if I have it setup in the following order:

Preamp audio out to..
Audio in on Alesis to..
Audio in on Aphex to..
Audio in on EQ to..
Audio in on amp

It's sounding good, but the Aphex had a tremendous noise floor
of about -30 db.

Does anyone have some insight as to the proper order I should
be using?

This is in a home audio enviroment, non-surround. Simple two
channels.

Any input you have is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

JP

[Arny Krueger]

"Honk Productions" > wrote in message

> Hey Everyone,
>
> I would like some opinions on the order of rack mount
> processing devices I have for home audio.
>
> I currently have the following:
>
> * Alesis 3630 Compressor/Dynamics Processor/Limiter/Gate
>
> * Behringer Ultragraph Pro 3102 EQ
>
> * Aphex 204c Aural Exciter with Big Bottom
>
> What I want to acheive is a well balanced, dynamics processed
> sound without it sounding heavily compressed or whatever else.
>
> It sounds pretty good if I have it setup in the following order:
>
> Preamp audio out to..
> Audio in on Alesis to..
> Audio in on Aphex to..
> Audio in on EQ to..
> Audio in on amp
>
> It's sounding good, but the Aphex had a tremendous noise floor
> of about -30 db.
>
> Does anyone have some insight as to the proper order I should
> be using?
>
> This is in a home audio enviroment, non-surround. Simple two
> channels.
>
> Any input you have is greatly appreciated.

Probable cause is that the Alesis is set for too much compression and
bringing the source noise floor way up or that the amp is too sensitive, and
is bringing the noise floor of the whole works way up.

I'd work backward in the chain, hooking the amp up to the output of each
device, to identify where the noise is actually coming from.