Channel Gate vs. Expander

[wabausParticipant]

The GLD has one of the best Gates available – with side-chain, depth and several time constants! But…

There are times, particularly on a loud stage, where an Expander (aka downward-expander) would be VERY useful.

Please consider, for a future software/firmware release, adding a “Gate/Expander” mode selector to the channel Gate functionality.

Not to be pedantic, but for comparison of features between the Gate & Expander…

• Common between Gate & Expander
• sidechain
• threshold
• attack
• release
• Differences
• hold (gate only)
• depth (gate only)
• ratio (expander only)
• knee (expander only)

While performance testing would obviously be required as proof, I believe the processing overhead for the Expander would not be much greater than that of the Gate, particularly compared to such a full-featured Gate as on the GLD-112.

[Author]

Posts