OVERVIEW
2
1. 2 FEATURES (continued)
•
Eight Dynamic Noise Gates.
Each channel of your ACP-88 has a separate dynamic noise gate that can be used to
Gate an entire drum kit, clean up a noisy tape machine, isolate an instrument or
separate a vocal from background noise. Each noise
Gate
provides control over
Attack
,
Threshold
,
Release
and
Gate close Range
. The Gate close range can be useful in
creating a more natural sounding blend or mix when gating many instruments
at once.
•
Comprehensive Channel Linking.
Using the
Link
function allows you to combine any combination of ACP-88 channels
effectively forming a
subgroup
. When linked, all processors follow the setting of the
Master
processor which is
always
the processor furthest to the
Left
in a
Link
group. For
example, you could
Link
together channels
7
and
8
to form a
Stereo pair
, channels
3
,
4
and
5
to form a
subgroup
of processors, while channels
1
,
2
and
6
remain available for
independent
applications such as
compression
,
limiting,
or
gating
as the situation
dictates.
•
Separate Bypass and Gain for Every Channel.
Each Channel has a separate
Bypass
for auditioning a signal ‘
before and after
’
processing with the compressor, limiter, or the
Gate
and a
Gain
control to make up any
loss in signal level resulting from the amount of compression being applied.
•
Compressor Sidechain Jack on Every Channel.
Each channel of your ACP-88 was designed with a special jack for
spectral processing
,
compression keying
and
ducking
applications.
Sidechaining
is useful for removing
annoying sibilance from vocal tracks (
de-essing
) or automatically ducking tracks behind
a narrator for ‘auto mixing” a service, broadcast or performance. When multiple channels
are
Linked
together, the
Send
of the
Sidechain
jack of the
Master
channel contains a
mix
of all the channels in the
Link
: a very cool feature allowing control over multiple
channels of processing with one
Sidechain send/return
. (See the section on
Sidechaining
for application notes.)
