PSP oldTimer

Operation Manual

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 Table of contents
PSP oldTimer..............................................................................................................................1
Table of contents.........................................................................................................................2
End User License Agreement.....................................................................................................3
Acknowledgements.....................................................................................................................4
Overview.....................................................................................................................................5
Controls.......................................................................................................................................6
Valve/Clear/Off.......................................................................................................................6
Valve level...............................................................................................................................6
Ratio........................................................................................................................................6
Attack ratio..............................................................................................................................6
Time........................................................................................................................................6
Compression............................................................................................................................6
Output......................................................................................................................................6
Gain Reduction Meter.............................................................................................................7
About Screen...........................................................................................................................7
Preset Handling & View Options................................................................................................8
Preset Browser........................................................................................................................8
Copy / Paste............................................................................................................................9
A/B System.............................................................................................................................9
Undo / Redo............................................................................................................................9
100% GUI resizing..................................................................................................................9
CONFIG section...................................................................................................................10
Technical Specifications............................................................................................................10
Processing.............................................................................................................................10
Minimum System Requirements...............................................................................................11
Support......................................................................................................................................12

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 End User License Agreement
PREFACE: This End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between you
and PSPaudioware.com s.c. (PSP) for the PSP product accompanying this EULA, which
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LICENSE: You can INSTALL and USE the current version of the SOFTWARE, or in its
place any prior version, on three computers simultaneously so long as you are the direct user
or a studio client of those machines. If more users USE the software you must buy an
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Bugaj 12;
05-806 Komorów,
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 Acknowledgements
Design and coding: Mateusz Woźniak
Graphics: Mateusz Woźniak
Product Manager: Antoni Ożyński
English manual edited by: Orren Merton
Alpha testing: George Daly; Joachim Krukowski, Alan Silverman.
Beta testing: Alecio Costa; George Daly; Matthew Davis; Julien K Bidi aka Jay Key,
Joachim Krukowski; Rick Paul; Alan Silverman; Barry Wood.

Special thanks go out to:

Special thanks to George Daly (About Records), Joachim Krukowski and Alan Silverman
(Arf! Mastering) for their “golden ears” and inexpressible support, inspiration and friendship.

Special thanks also to all our beta testers for their bug testing, comments, opinions and
presets.

Finally, thanks to all our users around the world for ideas and help in development of new
plug-ins!

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 Overview
PSP oldTimer is a vintage-style compressor designed for track and program compression and
limiting. Our goal in developing this plug-in is to provide a simple compressor that offers an
exceptionally musical sound while requiring a minimum of tweaking. This plug-in is not
based on any specific hardware, rather it is inspired by vintage circuits and is designed to
emulate some favorite characteristics of such compressors.
PSP oldTimer is so simple and so easy to use, that it's difficult to make it sound bad even at
extreme settings!
This compressor offers soft and smooth compression in most applications, however it may
slightly color the sound with its tube emulation on transients when heavily driven internally
by high Compression values.

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 Controls
PSP oldTimer’s controls are quite simple and intuitive. The plug-in gives you the ability to set
integration Time, Compression depth and Output level. It also offers an Valve/Clear/Off
switch to engage or disengage compression and Ratio rotary switch to change its compression
curve.

Valve/Clear/Off
Use this switch to engage (Valve) or disengage (Off) compression.
If the switch is set to its middle position (Clear) the internal tube rounding is disengaged,
resulting in more transparent processing.

Valve level
Use this screw pot to set up a valve processing reference level. Choose between seven
positions from “-” to “+”.

Ratio
PSP oldTimer features “over-easy” transition characteristics for 1.2:1 and 1.5:1 ratio, and old-
school peak-through-soft-knee characteristics for higher ratios. The specific amount of
compression possible at the maximum compression depth depends on the ratio and ranges
from about 8dB at a 1.2:1 ratio setting to about 30dB for a 10:1 ratio setting.

Attack ratio
Attack ratio screw pot adjusts the attack time in reference to the overall Time knob. In other
words it controls the ratio between the attack and release. A middle point setting and the
default value for earlier versions of the PSP oldTimer refers to 1:10 attack to release time
ratio.

Time
Time sets up the combined attack and release time. Timing characteristics are tuned internally
to insure a smooth and musical sound and the usual attack to release ratio is 1:10 whenever
the Attack ratio screw pot is set to its default value. Since attack and release are heavily
program dependent, you can manually adjust them to meet the specific program requirements
using the Time knob. Time knob settings of 0-3 result in a fast attack/release, perfect for
drums limiting. Time settings of 4-7 are good general values, offering times typical for opto
or valve compressors. Time values around 8-10 set long values for leveling.

Compression
Compression controls the amount of gain reduction by adjusting the threshold point. The
greater the compression value the lower the threshold point, resulting in more compression.
Even if the Compression is set to 0 the compressor may still influence the sound.

Output
The Output knob sets the compression make-up gain. PSP oldTimer offers up to 30dB of gain
in 0.5dB steps.

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 Gain Reduction Meter
This meter gives you a readout of how much gain reduction is being performed by PSP
oldTimer. In general, you’ll want to keep the compression values shown on the meter
between 4-8dB for the most transparent compression/limiting. When the Time knob is set
between 8-10 a deeper compression of about 12-15 dB can be used for program leveling

About Screen
The PSP oldTimer plug-in offers an About window. To access it click on the name of the
plug-in. To return to the controls view, click anywhere in the about screen.
This screen contains your authorization details, as well as the version number of the plug-in.

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 Preset Handling & View Options
We provide all PSP plugins with a collection of factory presets. These presets can be used as a
starting point for further adjustments, or for quick fixes. You access presets from the
PSPaudioware standard PRESET BAR at the top of the plug-in interface.

Preset Browser
The PSP oldTimer edition features a comprehensive new preset management and browser
system. To access the preset browser, you click the preset name window at the top of the plug-
in (which displays ‘Default’ when the plug-in loads).

The new preset management bar has three main categories which can be accessed with the
tabs at the top of the preset browser: Application, Designer, and My presets.

Application - shows all factory built-in presets grouping by application.

< Factory presets are built into the plugin and cannot be directly edited!
You can adjust them and save separately as user presets >

Designer - shows all factory built-in presets grouped by designer.

My presets - shows only user presets.

This view shows all of the presets you have created and saved, or downloaded and added to
your custom presets for PSP oldTimer.
To add categories to the preset list, you can create new subfolders in the preset directory.

For Windows users, this is located at:

C:\Users\Username\Documents\PSPaudioware.com\User Presets\PSP oldTimer

For Mac users, this is located at:

~/Documents/PSPaudioware.com/User Presets/PSP oldTimer

< You can always check the exact path by clicking on the "Show file in Finder" tab
at the bottom of the preset browser window. >

To select a preset, click a preset name in the right window. When clicked, the preset will be
applied so that you can audition it. To confirm the preset choice, you can click the preset
name once more to load it.

Each preset has own picture, click on it to open the designer's website.

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 Copy / Paste

The Copy/Paste feature allows you to quickly transfer settings between instances of the plug-
in.
To use this feature, you can click ‘Copy’ at the top of the plugin below the preset browser
window. Then, open a new instance of the plug-in on another track (or on the same track) and
click ‘Paste’ to paste the settings to the new instance of the plug-in.
This feature can be particularly useful for processing similar instruments or sounds when only
a few minor tweaks are needed.

A/B System

The A/B system for quickly checking and auditioning changes to the plugin settings.
The A/B Button at the top of the interface below the preset browser window allows you to
A/B between the current and previous setting of the plug-in. This can be used to audition
changes made to your mix, or to audition between two presets.
The A>B Button quickly copies the settings of the A setting to the B setting. This allows you
to save your place and apply further tweaks and the audition them with the A/B Button.

Undo / Redo

The Undo/Redo feature of the plugin lets you quickly navigate between setting changes.
To use this feature, use the undo/redo buttons (CCW and CW arrows, respectively) located
below the preset browser window.
These buttons will undo changes to the current plug-in settings, or allow you to undo a preset
change depending on the last action in the plug-in.

100% GUI resizing

Scroll this percentage up or down to change the GUIs zoom factor. Double click to reset its
state to the default size (100%).
You can resize the plug-in interface by just dragging the right bottom corner of the plug-in to
any size you like.

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 CONFIG section

When clicking the three parallel lines glyph, the CONFIG menu will open and it allows you
to open the manual, check the current plugin version number and turn on/off hints.

Technical Specifications
Processing
 All internal processing done with 64 bit double precision floats.
 32 and 64 bit floating point audio streams supported
 Sample rates up to 192kHz supported.

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 Minimum System Requirements
PC

VST3
 Windows 7 – Windows 11
 64-bit VST3 compatible application

VST
 Windows 7 – Windows 11
 64-bit VST compatible application

AAX
 Windows 7 – Windows 11
 64-bit Pro Tools 11, 12 or Pro Tools HD 11, 12 or Pro Tools Ultimate

All DAWs
 The latest iLok License Manager application installed (an iLok dongle not required)

Mac (macIntel or arm AppleSilicon processors)

AudioUnit
 macOS 10.10 – macOS 12.01 Montery
 64-bit AudioUnit compatible host application

VST
 macOS 10.10 – macOS 12.01 Montery
 64-bit VST compatible host application

VST3
 macOS 10.10 – macOS 12.01 Montery
 64-bit VST3 compatible host application

AAX
 macOS 10.10 – macOS 12.01 Montery
 64-bit Pro Tools 11, 12 or Pro Tools HD 11, 12 or Pro Tools Ultimate

All DAWs
 The latest iLok License Manager application installed (an iLok dongle not required)

VST, VST3 are trademarks and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. AAX,
Pro Tools, and RTAS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc.
AudioUnit, OSX, macOS, Apple Silicon are trademarks of Apple Inc.

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 Support

If you have any questions about any of our plug-ins, please visit our website
www.PSPaudioware.com where you can find the latest product information, free software
updates, online support forum and answers to the most frequently asked questions.

Problems with the installation, activation or authorisation?

Please watch our troubleshooting video tutorials on our YouTube channel.

You can also contact us by e-mail: support@PSPaudioware.com.

We will gladly answer all of your questions. As a rule we respond within 24 hours.

PSPaudioware.com s.c.
Bugaj 12
05-806 Komorów
Poland.
ph. +48 601 96 31 73
www.PSPaudioware.com
contact@PSPaudioware.com

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