A Reel Person
It's Too Funky in Here!!!
Okay, checked the manual again!!!
There is a dbx bypass for playback amp checks/adjustments, but it's not this lonely connector. It's J203/J204, which you must remove the plugs (P203/P204) and then short some pins together, a pair for each channel.
Something funny about the "formal" adjustment procedures, from time to time: If it says 'do this/do that/measure here', often times it's really most efficacious to forget that and "watch the meters". If you've done the preliminary setup in calibrating the meters, this is effective and for all intents and purpose your resulting 'output voltage' should line up in spec.
I'll be honest enough to acknowledge that I've not read nor followed all the formal procedures for line-up of these devices. A lot of it can be more intuitive than what's in the manual. How many people on this site even have the 244 Service Manual, or would know or care to distinguish the difference?
Note: I could be all f'd up and wrong about this, but if you override the dbx for record repro alignment, then you'll have to also adjust the dbx encode/decode circuits. Alt., if you do record/repro with the dbx on, no doubt you're assuming the dbx is all up to snuff, but given that assumption, it's like one stop shopping. You'll never be able to disengage the dbx in normal use, so checking record/repro with dbx bypassed is moot. As long as your NR is effective, transparent and not pumping, you're good to go! That's IMO, & YMMV.
I assume some more experienced "pro" tech or engineer will hop on here and point out where I'm wrong, and why.
Next time I have opportunity to line up a 244, which may be soon, I'll try doing it more "by the book", and see what I get. However, I do get a dubious feeling about shorting pins together, for any purpose. Too many things can go wrong, (eh Cory?)
PS: For the guy (forget which post or thread) who has "dbx pumping", (just above?), of course I'd recommend lining everything up exactly by the book, including the dbx. That's an audible anomaly in the dbx that has to be tweaked out. The fact of life with electronics is they can drift out of spec over time, and need to be lined back up.
There is a dbx bypass for playback amp checks/adjustments, but it's not this lonely connector. It's J203/J204, which you must remove the plugs (P203/P204) and then short some pins together, a pair for each channel.
Something funny about the "formal" adjustment procedures, from time to time: If it says 'do this/do that/measure here', often times it's really most efficacious to forget that and "watch the meters". If you've done the preliminary setup in calibrating the meters, this is effective and for all intents and purpose your resulting 'output voltage' should line up in spec.
I'll be honest enough to acknowledge that I've not read nor followed all the formal procedures for line-up of these devices. A lot of it can be more intuitive than what's in the manual. How many people on this site even have the 244 Service Manual, or would know or care to distinguish the difference?
Note: I could be all f'd up and wrong about this, but if you override the dbx for record repro alignment, then you'll have to also adjust the dbx encode/decode circuits. Alt., if you do record/repro with the dbx on, no doubt you're assuming the dbx is all up to snuff, but given that assumption, it's like one stop shopping. You'll never be able to disengage the dbx in normal use, so checking record/repro with dbx bypassed is moot. As long as your NR is effective, transparent and not pumping, you're good to go! That's IMO, & YMMV.
I assume some more experienced "pro" tech or engineer will hop on here and point out where I'm wrong, and why.
Next time I have opportunity to line up a 244, which may be soon, I'll try doing it more "by the book", and see what I get. However, I do get a dubious feeling about shorting pins together, for any purpose. Too many things can go wrong, (eh Cory?)
PS: For the guy (forget which post or thread) who has "dbx pumping", (just above?), of course I'd recommend lining everything up exactly by the book, including the dbx. That's an audible anomaly in the dbx that has to be tweaked out. The fact of life with electronics is they can drift out of spec over time, and need to be lined back up.