OVERVIEW
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.)
