| from what Albert has told me the link switch only links the peak reduction and not the input gain or the ratio. here is an excerpt from the e-mail he sent me to explain their reasoning for this :
"We not see a sense in linking of Ratio and Input Gain gain function due to several reasons. Any optocouples (we install matched pairs,as tubes also, of course) has a bit difference in electrical characteristics. It`s complex combination - LED or electrical lamp+Light dependent resistor,and it can not have full identical characteristic for real linking 1:1. Add tubes,passive components,pots,trafos - all with own never identical parameters. And time,which during long working device can change full similarity of channels a bit, due to tubes and optocouples resource, for example. Thus, with count of all it, you can adjust similarity of channels in any time by Peak and Gain pots and get truth result. But if performs link optocouples of both channels in hard way, you will not able receive full similarity from both channels. What for such linking mode then? But,in given case, you can set common input level of compression for A./B channels in linking mode and adjust similarity of channels by Peak reduction and Gain knobs a bit, with more perfect results in both channels. And you can make it in any time,during longest usage, if it will be necessary yet."
if you can get over the broken english it does seem to make some sense. |