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Drawmer and Dbx gate questions. Which to buy?
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<blockquote data-quote="Eric Cagle" data-source="post: 42948" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Re: Drawmer and Dbx gate questions. Which to buy?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am not sure of the cost new in the 1990's of the 201. The current perceived market on the Drawmer is because there is still a good bit of new analog live sound going on, especially in the low and mid market. Most everyone in live sound knows what a Drawmer gate is and likes it. There is almost no new analog studio business happening where most of the Aphex units found a home. They are fabulous but the other studio issue is that the noise gate is one of the devices that digital can do better and cheeper and automated and recallable with a plug in. I have never heard of anyone using a noise gate to add "color" to a mix. I still enjoy mixing analog live even though I have digital options. If I am on a analog board I use analog inserts. On the other hand I don't even enjoy thinking about doing a studio mix analog. </p><p></p><p>Enjoy your 622s. It is kind of cool that they have some history with Whitney Houston! I will tell you a story about my first 612 and this was back when you could buy them new. I had just put it in the rack and decided to play with it and see what it would do. I ran a full mono track of a popular song through it and managed to isolate the snare drum attack with the key filters. I watched the LEDs and manipulated the depth and ratio until it was only triggering on the snare. I then soloed the channel and set the hold and release times until I had a pretty good snare sound. Thinking that was pretty cool I loaded it up with a little gated reverb and mixed it back in with the track for a "Big Hair Big Snare Power Ballad" verson of the song. Its not that this was really something anyone would ever want to do with an Aphex expander/gate but it gave me an idea of the capability of the unit. Like I said it is a serious precision tool!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eric Cagle, post: 42948, member: 277"] Re: Drawmer and Dbx gate questions. Which to buy? I am not sure of the cost new in the 1990's of the 201. The current perceived market on the Drawmer is because there is still a good bit of new analog live sound going on, especially in the low and mid market. Most everyone in live sound knows what a Drawmer gate is and likes it. There is almost no new analog studio business happening where most of the Aphex units found a home. They are fabulous but the other studio issue is that the noise gate is one of the devices that digital can do better and cheeper and automated and recallable with a plug in. I have never heard of anyone using a noise gate to add "color" to a mix. I still enjoy mixing analog live even though I have digital options. If I am on a analog board I use analog inserts. On the other hand I don't even enjoy thinking about doing a studio mix analog. Enjoy your 622s. It is kind of cool that they have some history with Whitney Houston! I will tell you a story about my first 612 and this was back when you could buy them new. I had just put it in the rack and decided to play with it and see what it would do. I ran a full mono track of a popular song through it and managed to isolate the snare drum attack with the key filters. I watched the LEDs and manipulated the depth and ratio until it was only triggering on the snare. I then soloed the channel and set the hold and release times until I had a pretty good snare sound. Thinking that was pretty cool I loaded it up with a little gated reverb and mixed it back in with the track for a "Big Hair Big Snare Power Ballad" verson of the song. Its not that this was really something anyone would ever want to do with an Aphex expander/gate but it gave me an idea of the capability of the unit. Like I said it is a serious precision tool! [/QUOTE]
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