TEAC DM-3200 DM-3200 Owner's Manual - Page 63

5 - Channel modules : Dynamics processors Gates (input channels 1-32) GATE This is an on-screen button, allowing you to turn the channel gate (1 through 32, inputs only) on and off. Duplicated in the global section at the right of the screen. Threshold (THRESH) , controlled by the POD 1 knob, allows the setting of the threshold at which the gate will open. Variable from -80dB to 0dB in 1 dB steps. Range (RANGE) , controlled by the POD 2 knob, sets the gate range, from 60dB to 0dB in 1dB steps. Gate attack time (ATTACK), controlled by the POD 3 knob. Variable from 0ms to 125ms in 1ms steps. Hysteresis (HYST) , controlled by the POD 4 knob, from 0dB to 24dB in 1dB steps. Compressor/expanders COMP/EXPAND This is an on-screen button, allowing you to turn the channel compressor/ expander on and off. Duplicated in the global section at the right of the screen. Insert point (INS PNT) allows the compressor/ expander to be inserted either pre-EQ or post-EQ (channels 1 through 32-buss, aux and stereo are pre-fader only). Move the cursor to this field and use the ENTER key to change this setting. The link and trigger settings work in the same way as for the gate (see above). Threshold (THRESH), controlled by the POD 1 knob, and variable from -48dB to 0dB in 1 dB steps. Compression/expansion ratio (RATIO), con- trolled by the POD 2 knob, and variable from 1:1 to ∞:1 (infinite compression). NOTE Hysteresis is a second threshold. The Threshold value is used when opening the gate, and that of Hysteresis, typically set a few dB lower than Threshold, when closing the gate. This means that once a signal has dropped below the Hysteresis level, it must rise again to the Threshold level for the gate to re-open, thus reducing or eliminating gate "chatter"/ Gate hold time (HOLD) , controlled by the POD 3 knob on the second row. Variable from 0ms to 990ms in 100 steps. Gate decay time (DECAY) , controlled by the POD 4 knob on the second row. Variable from 50ms to 5.0s. Decay time 5 ms to 200 ms 200 ms to 300 ms 300 ms to 500 ms 500 ms to 1.00 s 1.00 s to 3.00 s 3.00 s to 5.00 s Step size 5 ms 10 ms 20 ms 50 ms 0.1 s 0.2 s The steps are as follows: 1.00:1, 1.05:1, 1.11:1, 1.18:1, 1.25:1, 1.33:1, 1.43:1, 1.54:1, 1.67:1, 1.82:1, 2.00:1, 2.22:1, 2.50:1, 2.86:1, 3.33:1, 4.00:1, 5.00:1, 6.67:1, 10.0:1, 20.0:1, ∞:1. When the processor is used as an expander, the values are: 1.00, 2.00, 4.00, 8.00, 16.0, 32.0, 64.0. Attack time (ATTACK), controlled by the POD 3 knob, and variable from 0ms to 125ms in 1ms steps. Release time (RELEASE), controlled by the POD 4 knob, and variable from 5ms to 5.0s in 100 steps. Release time 5 ms to 200 ms 200 ms to 300 ms 300 ms to 500 ms 500 ms to 1.00 s 1.00 s to 3.00 s 3.00 s to 5.00 s Step size 5 ms 10 ms 20 ms 50 ms 0.1 s 0.2 s TASCAM DM-3200 User's Manual 63