Line 6 GearBox 3.1 – Basic Features Guide

Gate

GearBox's Gate is designed to reduce the noise that your guitar or other source makes when you are not playing. You can think of it as a gate that opens to let your guitar or other sound through when you play, and closes when you stop playing to shut out the noise you would otherwise hear after you stop playing. (For guitars and basses, the Hum Reducer is available to tame noise in another way.)

The Gate works by detecting the input level coming into GearBox. When the input level is below the level set for the gate's THRESHOLD knob, the gate will close at the speed set by the Gate's DECAY knob, and cut off the signal from your input. When the input level is above the threshold, the gate will open to let your input signal through. Turning the Threshold knob clockwise increases the aggressiveness of the gate in its effort to cut off sound. The idea is to set the threshold low enough so that it doesn't cut off the signal as you are playing or a note is sustaining, but high enough so that the background noise from your guitar or other source doesn't keep the gate open. When you're using a Stomp effect, Amp Model or Preamp Model that adds a lot of distortion to your Tone, you'll need to adjust the Gate to work well with that, and you'll probably have to tweak the Gate if you change Models, change drive settings, or use different guitar(s), pickup configurations, or other changes to your input source, and the volume of audio that it's providing.

You can turn the Gate on/off by clicking its icon, and the setting of the Gate is saved as part of a Tone.

Vol (Volume)

GearBox's Vol (Volume) allows a MIDI controller to operate a volume pedal effect in GearBox to control the volume of your processed sound. The CONFIGURE switch on the Volume control panel lets you decide whether the volume pedal will run before the amp/cab/mic or Preamp processing ("Pre"), or after ("Post").

Female De-Esser

The Female De-esser should be your first choice when taming the Sss and Shh sounds of female vocalists, although as with all things musical, you may find many uses for it and may find that for some male vocalists it works better than the Male De-Esser. For general information on De- Essers, see the Set the De-Esser topic in the How To section. Technically-savvy users will want to know that this de-esser performs its gain reduction only on the selected frequency band, unlike the more typical insert-style De-Essing of the Male De-Esser.

Male De-Esser

The Male De-esser should be your first choice for controlling the Sss and Shh sounds of male vocalists, although as with all things musical, you may find many uses for it and may find that for some female vocalists it works better than the Female De-Esser. For general information on De- Essers, see the Set the De-Esser topic in the How To section. Technically-savvy users will want

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headphones powered monitors specifications

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