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title: "Making Basic Processing Changes with Quick Tweak"
slug: "using-quick-tweak"
updated: 2026-10-26T18:54:48Z
published: 2026-10-26T18:54:48Z
canonical: "docs.telosalliance.com/using-quick-tweak"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.telosalliance.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Making Basic Processing Changes with Quick Tweak

Quick Tweak provides a simplified set of processing controls for making common adjustments without using the full processing interface.

The recommended starting point is to audition several factory presets and then use Quick Tweak to tailor the one that best matches your programming.

Quick Tweak controls are not included in the front panel touchscreen.

## **Adjusting a Preset with Quick Tweak**

After selecting a preset, you can use Quick Tweak to customize it.

**To access Quick Tweak controls:**

1. Launch the web UI.
2. Click **FM / HD Processing**.
3. In the header, make sure the **PROC** tab is enabled.

This provides a view of meters in the first panel, a list of presets and the **Presets**, **Quick**, and **Expanded** buttons in the second panel.
4. In the middle panel, click **Quick**.

The Quick Tweak controls display in the bottom panel.

**To adjust a control in the Quick Tweak panel:**

- To change a value with a mouse, click and drag within the control area, and move the mouse to the right to increase a value, or to the left to decrease a value.
- To change a value by typing in a value, click in the value field for a control, press **Delete** to erase the current value, type in a new value, and then click Enter.

After adjusting a control, the **Current Preset** label in the middle panel header changes to **Modified Preset**.

## Using Quick Tweak Controls

The most commonly adjusted Omnia XII controls are grouped in sections on two Quick Tweak pages.

- **Overall page**: **Loudness**, **Bass**, **Midrange**, and **Treble**.
- **Enhancers page**: **Stereo Enhancement** and **Bass** **EFX**.

After adjusting Quick Tweak controls, save the changes as a user preset. See *Working with Presets*.

### **Loudness**

The first important control to adjust is the **Backend Drive** (in the **Loudness** section).

Since every air chain and market is different, this control should always be adjusted to as low a setting as possible for the level of loudness needed. You can think of this control as adjusting the primary loudness vs. distortion tradeoff.

We suggest that each time you try a new factory preset, you adjust the **Backend Drive** in this manner:

1. Click the **Overall** tab.
2. Turn the **Overall** control in the **Loudness** section all the way down to 0.0.
3. Adjust the **Backend Drive** control down in 0.5 dB steps until the loudness just falls off too much and then bring it up a bit from there.
4. Turn up the **Overall** until about 0.5 to 1.0 dB of activity can be seen on the right-hand meter of the **Clipper** meters.

This is usually the correct **Overall** and **Backend Drive** settings for the currently selected preset. On some presets, you may need to turn **Backend Drive** up instead of down. This is OK too. Adjust it up in the same 0.5 dB steps until you achieve the loudness required or the sound becomes too distorted, whichever comes first. If the distortion comes first, you probably need to start with a more aggressive preset.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** If you are turning up the Backend Drive to increase loudness and you reach a point where the loudness and distortion do not seem to be increasing as you would expect, you have likely run into the Overall ceiling. Try turning down the Overall control a little. This will allow more clipping to take place. For more information about the clipper, see *Adjusting Omnia XII Processing*.

### Bass

**Growl** in the **Bass** section is the next control that is important to adjust with each preset that you try.

**Growl** tunes a number of behind-the-scenes parameters at once to tune the Omnia XII for the desired amount of bass. Higher settings can make the bass effects (bass enhancers in the **Bass EFX** section) to be more pronounced. After making an adjustment to **Growl**, review the **Deep** and **Warm** settings in the **Bass FX** section (on the **Enhancers** page), if needed.

### Treble

**Presence** and **Brightness** controls, located in the **Treble** section, adjust high-frequency character.

A setting of 0% adds no additional brightness to the selected preset. Turn each control up to taste while being careful not to use more than needed since excessive limiter activity or clipping can occur with very high settings. A little goes a long way here!

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