Klark Teknik specifications Introduction, Overview of the DN530

Chapter 1: Introduction

Thank you for purchasing a Klark Teknik DN530 Creative Quad Gate. The DN530 is a user-friendly, high-performance, four-channel (quad) analogue gate designed for live sound reinforcement with applications in both front-of-house and monitoring situations. Other possible areas for use include broadcasting, the recording studio and installation.

The DN530 provides a variety of easy-to-use controls for the precise manipulation of gate parameters. These enable you to use gating for creative and corrective applications, for example, by using a channel insert on drums.

Your DN530 was conceived by Klark Teknik to offer audio professionals high-performance audio equipment, designed to provide no-compromise sonic quality with a feature set that offers all essential facilities and functions. It represents the very best of British design and engineering combined with contemporary, efficient manufacturing methods, and will give you many years of reliable service.

All this is backed up, of course, by the standard Klark Teknik three year warranty.

Please take the time to complete and return the registration card or fill in the Warranty Registration Form online by visiting our website at www.klarkteknik.com and, to obtain the best results with a minimum of effort, also read this operator manual.

Finally, enjoy your Klark Teknik DN530!

Overview of the DN530

The DN530 consists of four channels of gate mounted in a 1U rack. Full control of all essential audio-gating parameters is available, including all envelope characteristics. Additionally, there are external sidechain access points with internal frequency selective filters.

Front panel

Rear panel

The main gate controls consist of bypass and duck switches, continuously adjustable threshold and range controls, and four envelope controls (attack, accent, hold and release).

External sidechain input and filter solo facilities are provided, which feed a solo bus output (with input for linking). The sidechain filters consist of a single band pass section with a frequency control that can sweep the majority of the audio spectrum. The filter switch activates the filter within the sidechain signal path.

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